I’m here in Europe where I’ve never ever seen anyone using a gas stove, ever. Not even the old timey stove in my grandparents’ tiny summer home. I’m almost 40 years old. Seriously, gas stoves are ancient and not efficient.
I guess gas would have to be a quarter as efficient as induction for it to be worth it. I don’t know of exact numbers regarding that. Interesting point.
Going from a 1 to a 7 back to a 1 takes about 20 minutes on an induction.
Bullshit, it takes seconds. On my consumer grade home hob even. Not even sure what a “7” means, but from highest heat (14, or even the P(ower) mode) to lowest heat (1) takes probably 30 seconds or less on my hob as well.
Induction is very responsive both up and down. Not sure what kind of garbage/faulty equipment you’ve tried that takes twenty minutes, but that is not representative in any way whatsoever.
I do, yes. But people are renovating and modernizing their homes and I don’t know anyone who chose induction - they are available here, and so is electricity.
I’m here in Europe where I’ve never ever seen anyone using a gas stove, ever. Not even the old timey stove in my grandparents’ tiny summer home. I’m almost 40 years old. Seriously, gas stoves are ancient and not efficient.
I’m in Europe too, and I’ve seen a lot of them, and I think they are still standard in restaurants. I’ve owned gas stoves in 2 of my apartments.
In restaurants seems like it’s like some sort of tradition, even though it’s much less efficient than induction.
Gas is often greatly cheaper than electricity (4x cheaper in Britain for instance) so that really adds up in commercial usage.
I guess gas would have to be a quarter as efficient as induction for it to be worth it. I don’t know of exact numbers regarding that. Interesting point.
Gas is much faster to heat and cool. Also it’s harder to flambe with electricity.
I don’t think gas is faster to heat and cool than induction…
Flambeing should be possible with just using something else to ignite, right? Shouldn’t be that hard.
Going from a 1 to a 7 back to a 1 takes about 20 minutes on an induction.
Takes 30s with gas.
Yeah, you can ignite with other sources, but it’s not as available or as cool looking.
Bullshit, it takes seconds. On my consumer grade home hob even. Not even sure what a “7” means, but from highest heat (14, or even the P(ower) mode) to lowest heat (1) takes probably 30 seconds or less on my hob as well.
Induction is very responsive both up and down. Not sure what kind of garbage/faulty equipment you’ve tried that takes twenty minutes, but that is not representative in any way whatsoever.
Hmm. Maybe I’m confusing electric convection hobs with induction.
Yeah those are definitely as slow as you described, that’s probably it. 😁
Europe, I’ve seen induction only in airbnbs, everyone has gas at home
Northern Europe here, everyone has either induction or electric glass/ceramic.
I have induction, live in an apartment, not an Airbnb. You live in eastern Europe by any chance? Maybe less far along technology wise?
I do, yes. But people are renovating and modernizing their homes and I don’t know anyone who chose induction - they are available here, and so is electricity.
Habit maybe? Just like Americans seem to be stuck in the past because of fear of progress.
Depends alot where you are living. As a kid I never saw anyone using gas. But later, especially living in a bigger city gas stoves are really common.
Which part of Europe? I’m living in the biggest city in my region.