Preference. Some people dislike induction due to worse cooking quality.
You need to buy shit cimpatible with induction
I thought about induction. Was enough for electrical installation in my home to catch fire. And I only semi-joke, because the bitch did catch a fire. I’d neew to invest in rewiring to be able to use induction.
Induction doesn’t cook worse than gas. That’s just decades long gas industry propaganda. Induction, and even just resistive electric, is so so much nicer than gas. It’s crazy how people have been literally gaslit by gas companies.
The only things not compatible, at least the vast majority, are cheap aluminum pans. When we made the switch, all the pans were owned were compatible.
Wiring and cost are the only valid reasons not to go with induction.
Heh, you see…I don’t have slightest idea. But everyone I know who can actually cooks swears that gas just cooks better. Taste wise. And a lot of these people didn’t hear the propaganda, that’s just their own experience. I talk about both professionals and casuals. Effin weird.
My theoriy is that induction does change taste, not much but enough for people who know what to look for to notice it’s different than home cooking. Thus evoking feeling of something being amiss and thus making stuff iffy.
And a lot of households where I live still have incompatible cookware.
But overall, I am on your side, I’d love to have induction but again…wires + fire = bad :<
As a semi professional cook, let me assure you it doesn’t change the flavor. I could talk about this for a long time.
The gist of it is this. Old electric cook tops, the crappy coil kind, really did suck. And at that time, gas was far better. But things have changed. Cooks, like so many other professions, hold on to old dogma and do not like letting go.
Add on top of that gas industry lobbying and advertising, and you get myths that stick, and stick hard.
As a professional chef, you’re right about the flavor part. The main reason that I prefer working on a gas burner is that I can gauge the heat coming off of the burner based on the size and appearance of the flames and temperature changes happen more quickly.
While on the surface, that is true, it’s also true that for the most part, it comes down to learning your particular equipment. You know what your stove is going to do based on which pan you use and what the flame looks like. And it’s basically the same on induction. You know that if you put it on a specific setting with a specific pan what it will do. At first, it might be weird and confusing not having that visual feedback. But you still get all of the other feedback you normally get.
And here’s a big one! You get extra feedback when you aren’t using gas. You can actually smell what’s going on in the pan. With gas, the fumes go up around the outside of the pan, cover up, and carry off the smells from the pan. That was something we didn’t think about when switching from gas to induction, but it’s something my wife noticed and pointed out to me.
I could go on about induction for a long time. I think it is hands down better. For background, I’ve always had electric stoves, and found the newer glass top style to be perfectly adequate. We bought a bed and breakfast that had a gas stove, and I was really excited to “upgrade” to gas and I was shocked at how much I actually hated using it. We had a cheap induction burner from Amazon for years and liked it a lot, so we decided to get an induction stove and it’s been amazing.
I am in EU:
Induction doesn’t cook worse than gas. That’s just decades long gas industry propaganda. Induction, and even just resistive electric, is so so much nicer than gas. It’s crazy how people have been literally gaslit by gas companies.
The only things not compatible, at least the vast majority, are cheap aluminum pans. When we made the switch, all the pans were owned were compatible.
Wiring and cost are the only valid reasons not to go with induction.
If there’s anyone who’s going to gaslight, gas companies seem a probable candidate.
Heh, you see…I don’t have slightest idea. But everyone I know who can actually cooks swears that gas just cooks better. Taste wise. And a lot of these people didn’t hear the propaganda, that’s just their own experience. I talk about both professionals and casuals. Effin weird.
My theoriy is that induction does change taste, not much but enough for people who know what to look for to notice it’s different than home cooking. Thus evoking feeling of something being amiss and thus making stuff iffy.
And a lot of households where I live still have incompatible cookware.
But overall, I am on your side, I’d love to have induction but again…wires + fire = bad :<
As a semi professional cook, let me assure you it doesn’t change the flavor. I could talk about this for a long time.
The gist of it is this. Old electric cook tops, the crappy coil kind, really did suck. And at that time, gas was far better. But things have changed. Cooks, like so many other professions, hold on to old dogma and do not like letting go.
Add on top of that gas industry lobbying and advertising, and you get myths that stick, and stick hard.
As a professional chef, you’re right about the flavor part. The main reason that I prefer working on a gas burner is that I can gauge the heat coming off of the burner based on the size and appearance of the flames and temperature changes happen more quickly.
While on the surface, that is true, it’s also true that for the most part, it comes down to learning your particular equipment. You know what your stove is going to do based on which pan you use and what the flame looks like. And it’s basically the same on induction. You know that if you put it on a specific setting with a specific pan what it will do. At first, it might be weird and confusing not having that visual feedback. But you still get all of the other feedback you normally get.
And here’s a big one! You get extra feedback when you aren’t using gas. You can actually smell what’s going on in the pan. With gas, the fumes go up around the outside of the pan, cover up, and carry off the smells from the pan. That was something we didn’t think about when switching from gas to induction, but it’s something my wife noticed and pointed out to me.
I could go on about induction for a long time. I think it is hands down better. For background, I’ve always had electric stoves, and found the newer glass top style to be perfectly adequate. We bought a bed and breakfast that had a gas stove, and I was really excited to “upgrade” to gas and I was shocked at how much I actually hated using it. We had a cheap induction burner from Amazon for years and liked it a lot, so we decided to get an induction stove and it’s been amazing.
Thanks for PoV. Now I know what to think about this even less!
Still want an induction tho.