I'm super impatient so seeing my pans heat up super fast on a modern electric stove is really great.
I think the only good solution for wok hei at home is a wok stand/burner powered by propane. At least that's one of my kitchen purchase goals. That and an induction stove would be great
They’re not that bad, but a lot of people are used to some beat to shit 30 year old landlord special. Newer ones are nicer.
My last apartment had a new stove with a glass top and it worked decently. I like how the glass top makes it extra counter space, it's nice to have in a small space.
I have a cheap induction thing that fits one pan and it works well, but not with any of my nonmagnetic pans. If I could I'd buy all new pans and an induction stove, but that is probably quite expensive. Those cheap Lodge cast iron pans work well with induction, though.
I just looked it up and induction is 85-90% efficient, compared to 65-70% for gas or electric. That gas part doesn't sound right, but induction uses magnets and I don't know how the fuck those work either.
i bought some tin foil type liners at the dollar store, a half dozen each small and large for $4.99, when enough shit falls on them and burns, i just replace the liner. its more expensive i guess but i replace one liner a month because im a messy bitch
House I'm in has one of these, the glass top is really nice for cleaning since all you have to do is hit it with some soap and wipe it down. No more scrubbing funk off of those iron things that hold your pot above the flame spouts.
Gas stoves are also shit for indoor air quality as well. I used to really want gas for wok cooking, too.
I've been on a slumlord special cheap electric stove with 1 of 4 burners working. I'm hoping that other electric stoves are better.
Electric stoves are slow to get going but at least they don't poison you at least :shrug-outta-hecks:
I'll take my gas stove over a shitty electric one any day. I ain't eating undercooked foods for some individualist fight against climate change
"Forget that corporations are responsible for 70% of emissions, the problem is you and your own personal choices."
Corporations marketed gas stoves aggressively to put gas lines into houses even though they knew it was less safe because once the line was in people would use gas for water and home heating.
This article reminds me of the Climate Town video on the same subject
Fuck this shit. Liberal bullshit, making people sacrifice for trivial matters. Performative! These are the laces of curtains on the Titanic. We can all die in front of our electric stoves.
Any attempt to lessen climate change that would require personal sacrifice on my part is performative bullshit!
Its performative. It doesnt address any of the issues at hand. Just lets capitalists reduce their overhead.
Also its just a way for capital to reduce infrastructure .
Had an electric stove at my last place but now this one has a gas stove. Sucks.
If the world were cool we'd all have induction (and homes to put it in, free of the leech class). Super-efficient, super fast, super controllable, and doesn't emit gross stuff that's bad for you.
Unfortunately the world is less cool than it should be.
Also gonna plug this video because it's interesting and funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54
Slowly doing the plans for getting electric on demand water heater and seriously considering ditching the ancient range for an electric range top.
Go for induction, much better than the landlord special coil electrics.
If you’re shopping for new cookware, look for pots and pans marked “induction-compatible.” If you want to know whether your existing arsenal of cookware will work with an induction range, use a magnet to see whether it strongly sticks to the bottom of your pots. If it does, it will work on an induction burner.
I'll need to dig through our pots and pans and see which our kitchen magnets stick to :quokka-smile:
I substituted my glass kettle that went on the stove with a countertop electric one, and that's as far as I'm willing to go.
