GAS STOVE MASTER RACE

[Anonymous No.4118733]

>not being gas stove master race.

I genuinely feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous No.4118747]

I think if I had an electric stove I wouldn't even bother to cook. It's like trying to type with a pair of mittens on.

[Anonymous No.4118749]

gas and cast-iron masterrace for ever and life.

[Anonymous No.4118753]

>>4118749
> only having one kind of pan

I genuinely feel sorry for you

[Anonymous No.4118752]

>>4118749
go away curtains guy

[Anonymous No.4118820]

I have had to use electric stoves for a while, and they really do suck ass for cooking compared to gas.

Just trying to juggle pans so that you can remove them from heat (because electric burners stay hot for a good while) is hard enough, especially when the stove is small and only one burner spot is big enough for your 14" cast-iron pan or your huge-ass stock pot. You eventually have to clear your work area and put down a trivet, if you have enough things you want to make.

Also, you can't really use a round-bottomed wok ever.

The one advantage I guess is that I can clean my stove in less than a minute...which I guess I underestimate somewhat.

[Anonymous No.4118824]

I've never had the pleasure of using a gas stove. Should you guys feel sorry for me?

[Sythe !!66E8vxZ1xpB No.4118827]

My apartment has eletric, the good inset-under-ceramic kind, but it still kills me a little on the inside to use them.

>MFW I shake my saute pans over the element and immediately lose a noticeable amount of heat.

[Anonymous No.4118829]

>>4118747
I agree, four years of culinary arts and 5 more in kitchens, then when I moved into a new apartment and found I had an electric range I stopped cooking... I think my chefs knife has rust on it from disuse...

[Anonymous No.4118841]

Have you guys without gas stoves thought about buying a portable gas stove?

[Anonymous No.4118845]

>>4118841
A portable gas stove is good in a pinch. But for everyday use it is a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous No.4118846]

>>4118827
>lose a noticeable amount of heat
I would personally cook in cast iron 100% of the time to avoid that.

[Anonymous No.4118848]

>>4118845
If I had an electric stove, I would buy a high BTU wok burner and a propane tank.

>stir fry err'day

[Anonymous No.4118853]

>>4118820
You can't really use a wok on most gas stoves either. Gotta be really, REALLY hot.

[Anonymous No.4118856]

>>4118829
Wow, that's some...bad planning and sour grapes. Electric isn't fun but you can still cook on it, for Christ's sake.

Are you aware that saying that that way makes you sound like a humongous moron?

[Anonymous No.4118857]

>>4118846
Now that I think about it....I am stuck with electric, but I mainly use cast iron. Don't really notice the difference because of it.....besides the annoying differences in heat on equal settings of course.

[Anonymous No.4118865]

>>4118853
> you can't really use a wok
You're limited by not having the massive BTU of those wok burners, but you can still make acceptable stir fry. I do it all the time.

It's like how people make acceptable naan without a tandoor, or acceptable pizza without a wood-fired brick oven. It's not the same, but it works fine and the alternative is just too expensive and difficult to keep.

[Anonymous No.4118867]

>>4118853
... you only need the wok to get very hot for certain dishes. Few dishes require that sort of heat and most of these few dishes are dishes that most of us have ever tried. Sautéed dishes, such as what most stir-fries actually are, are fine without getting a wok or pan to the high heat required for bao cooking.

[Anonymous No.4118871]

>>4118857
Cast iron has great heat retention. It should continue cooking for several seconds when removed from the heat.

You just must be an idiot.

[Anonymous No.4118877]

i cook on a electric stove and i personally have had no problems. i think any good chef can cook anywhere with anything. they learn to adapt. dont be so stuck up gasburnerfags

[Anonymous No.4118878]

>>4118877
Seconded. Also trip-dubs.

[Anonymous No.4118880]

[Anonymous No.4118886]

>>4118878
Fuck off back to /b/ with your Autistic number obsession.

Here, I'll help you get back there: >>>/b/

[Anonymous No.4118883]

>>4118877

I could probably learn to eat sawdust and dead flies to survive, but fortunately I live in 2013 murrika. My grandkids, we'll see about that.

[Anonymous No.4118887]

>>4118871
It does, I was stating what you said, I'm not sure how you got that I was disagreeing with you from what I posted.

[Anonymous No.4118898]

>>4118886
listen here nigger fuck. /b/tards dont mess with co/ck/s so dont go fucking with my /b/rethern ok?

[Anonymous No.4118899]

>>4118898
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.4118909]

>>4118899
>>>/cm/
bitch

[Anonymous No.4119909]

All I've ever used was electric. My old house had gas but I was too young to cook (I live in America so we have no culture and our kids aren't allowed to use knives or anything until they turn 40)

So I'm used to it. Gas was pretty badass, I remember ours being shitty so we had to use matches or something

Discuss

[Anonymous No.4119927]

>>4119909
The flat electric burners have come a long way. I remember my friend having one in the late 80's.
I've used them recently and found them to heat up quickly and cool down quickly too.
Gas is great, but if we're just talking BTU's, well, why the fuck are we even having this conversation? You don't have a commercial gas range in your home. If you DO, it's a mediocre "home" unit.
Gas is over-rated.

[Anonymous No.4119928]

I have electric at home, used to have gas, and am currently on vacation, using gas only. It has made absolutely no difference, and I use the stove every single day.

I've heard from people on here who actually have trouble switching between the two. Fucking LOL.

>Being so inept that you can't operate both with no trouble whatsoever

I genuinely laugh with the utmost condescending smugness at you fucking retards.

[Anonymous No.4119942]

Charcoal Master Race reporting in!
Smells guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud!

Anything that can be done in a gas stove I can cook on it as well + I have a portable modified indoor version
with exhaust hose

[Anonymous No.4119944]

Only advantage I find to a gas stove is being able to switch out the pan holding cage with one that is more wok friendly. Other than that? Exactly the same.

[Anonymous No.4119951]

>>4119928

Get back to me when you've graduated from boiling eggs, junior.

[Anonymous No.4119958]

>>4119951
sounds good to me OP just got to ad some more perhaps some cépe or something like that! a real italian pasta doesnt even have a sauce

[Anonymous No.4119960]

>>4119951
>being mad about your inability to operate an electric appliance

>implying I eat or cook eggs

[Anonymous No.4119970]

>>4119960

this.

everyone else in this thread was taught how to cook on a gas stove and is too retarded to learn the subtle differences in technique that you use to get equal or superior results from electricity.

electricity is cleaner, safer, and more economical than gas. do you hipsters have gas lights too?

[Anonymous No.4119972]

>>4119970

Not bad. Not bad at all.

[Anonymous No.4120001]

>>4119970
>electric heating more economical than gas
Do you live in the middle of the desert? Does gas have to be delivered to you on camels?

[Anonymous No.4120011]

>apply to restaraunt for cooking position
>get called in for interview
>all goes well
>can you start tomorrow
>show up for work
>get taken on tour of the kitchen
>worst kitchen layout I have ever seen
>they dont have a gas stove
>its an electric oven with a glass cook top that belongs in a shitty apartment kitchen
>"hur dur, the last guys used it just fine. He was just always taking too long to cook everything even though we told him to learn how to cook faster so we had to let him go."
>spend all night pissed off as fuck trying to cook tons of orders on that shitty stove top

>dont show up for work the next day, or ever again there

[Anonymous No.4120017]

What's induction like?

[Anonymous No.4120021]

>>4120001
Not the person you're talking too, but I actually do. Arizona sadness here

[Anonymous No.4120025]

>>4120021
>Arizona

Dimwits, racists, and cranks dot jpg

[Anonymous No.4120028]

>>4120001

>? Does gas have to be delivered to you on camels?

race talk is not abided on this board.

[Anonymous No.4120051]

>>4120017
Certain pans don't work with it but it's quick and works well. My induction hob has a power setting that can get water boiling very quickly. Easy to clean too. The only thing I don't like is the crappy touch screen interface it has, it's kinda unresponsive.

[Anonymous No.4120053]

>>4120011
That's horrible.

I'd never work in a kitchen without a gas stove.

>shit tier home-electric stove
>feelsbadman

[Anonymous No.4120055]

Dad told me gas was the shit but I'm put of by the "risk" of leakage.

[Anonymous No.4120064]

>>4120001
My parents' summer house is in southern Italy on the adriatic. Gas is indeed delivered in pic related. There is a cabinet next to the stove that you put it in and connect it to the stove. Then, you turn on both valves then turn on the stove.
There's no need for gas in around there because the area is generally warm year-round. The coldest it gets in the winter in that area is about 10°C (50°F). The houses are quite old and many haven't been retrofitted for indoor gas lines, so this is the next best thing. Yes: there is electricity.

As I understand it, the Amish do the same.

[Anonymous No.4120066]

>>4120011
dear good man

The sad part is my years as a chef tell me this story is 100% true.

[Anonymous No.4120069]

>>4120055

Electricity can electrocute you

[Anonymous No.4120073]

>>4120064
And it's still cheaper to cook with gas than with electricity. Do the math.

[Anonymous No.4120079]

after years of becoming addicted to high output restaurant burners, i now rage daily at my faggoty apartment kitchen

>the feel when glass top
>the feel when electric coil element
>the feel when dump printed circuit digital controls
>the feel when no counter space
>the feel when no huge cutting boards everywhere
>the feel when sink cant even hold 2 five gallon buckets
>the feel when no fucking 200gallon tilt skillet
>the feel when no walk in freezers
>the feel when no dishroom

>the feel when duplicate file entry

[Anonymous No.4120087]

>>4120079

>>the feel when no huge cutting boards everywhere

Go to a restaraunt supply store and buy one nigger. Mine cost me like $20, and its the same as the ones I used to use when i was still cooking for a living.

[Anonymous No.4120097]

Y U NO Cast Iron Wok with flat bottom?

I have the Lodge version and it works great on my ceramic top electric stove.

lrn2cook plebs.

[Anonymous No.4120103]

>>4120079
>all those feels

[Anonymous No.4120105]

>>4120073
I don't think it is. I live in the US currently and my gas bills in the winter months are far higher than my electric/cooling bills in the summer months. Where I live vacillates between 30°F in the winter and 90°F in the summer. Gas is super 'spensive right now.

[Anonymous No.4120106]

I use electric stove to make soups and ragù Bolognese.

Problem /ck/?

[Anonymous No.4120108]

>>4120106

No problem for me as long as I don't have to eat your clumsy abominations.

You seem to have an overinflated sense of your relevance.

[Anonymous No.4120111]

>>4120097

Because there's no point. You might as well use a western style flat frying pan or a skillet. A flat-bottom wok is silly. It's only purpose is marketing--it makes people think they're cooking authentic Asian food because their pan has a special shape. However in reality, it's silly. The whole point of cooking on a wok is the blisteringly high heat. That requires either gas or a charcoal stove. If you don't have either of those then you're missing the whole point. A flat bottom wok is like an easy-tear condom, padded combat knife, or a "light duty" tow truck. It's just silly.

If you have a gas range (or charcoal stove) then by all means get a wok. If you don't have that kind of heat output you cannot use a wok properly. Just use a very thick western pan or skillet in its place.

[Anonymous No.4120113]

>>4120111

but muh christmas present!

[Anonymous No.4120119]

Reminder: Electric stove is better than gas stove for various soups and stews, homemade chicken/beef/pork stock and ragu Bolognese

Debate this point all of you pro-gas people.

[Anonymous No.4120123]

>>4120105
Well, if you leave the heater on all day and all night, of course the bill is higher. Do you leave the AC on all day and all night during the summer?

[Anonymous No.4120124]

>>4120111
Wisdom.

[Anonymous No.4120125]

>>4120113

It's still a nice pan.
Use it and feel good.

[Anonymous No.4120128]

>>4120123
I'm cheap. I turn off the heat at 10pm nightly and turn it back on at 8am daily. I turn it off whenever I leave the house, so it's only on, at most, for about 6hours each day. The electricity bills in the summer are around $120USD and the gas bills in the winter around $170USD. Last year, the gas bill was around $140 and the electric $110. The year before, the gas was around $90 and the electric $100.
Gas prices have been sky-rocketing in the US lately. I can't say how much pic related costs as I've never bought them (I forgot to post the pic to >>4120064, so here it is), but as long as I've been living in the US, the gas has generally been a little higher than the electric with 2010 being a fluke.
Also, I only use the AC in the summer at night; I like to be cold at night as it helps me sleep.

[Anonymous No.4120144]

>>4120119

It makes no difference at all unless you have thin shitty pans.

[Anonymous No.4120148]

>>4120111

No, you're missing the point.

The flat cast iron bottom on an electric stove builds and hold the heat. The bottom of the inside of the wok is still curved. It sits "within" the flat cast iron base. Like a conventional wok ring would hold a round bottom wok. Works exactly the same. and trust me, it gets PLENTY hot.

Also, you can use it on your grill (charcoal master race, btw).

The only disadvantage is that you can't tilt the wok, it sits flat on the stovetop.

[Anonymous No.4120157]

>>4120128
Have you ever had gas heating?

[Anonymous No.4120162]

>>4120157
With me paying the bills, only here in the US.
I grew up in Italy, Switzerland and various parts of southeast Asia as well as parts of my childhood in the NY, DC and Philadelphia areas of the US (parents were diplomats). I currently live in Philadelphia.
Again, I've only paid my own bills here.

[Anonymous No.4120165]

>>4120128

Forget anecdotal stories. Compare the cost of electricity and gas per unit energy.

According to:
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/
....the average cost of electricity in the USA is $0.12 per KWH. 1 KWH = 3400 BTU, so the cost is $0.000035 per BTU.

and according to:
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_dcu_nus_m.htm
....the average cost of natural gas at retail price is about $12 for 1000 cubic ft. There is about 1028 BTU in 1 cubic foot of gas so gas costs about 0.000012 per BTU.

Notice the cost per unit energy (BTU) for electricity is roughly 3 times higher than gas.

So, on average, gas is MUCH less expensive than electricity--in fact, it's 1/3 the price--though if you happened to live somewhere where the prices are very different than average then perhaps YMMV.

[Anonymous No.4120175]

>>4120165
Mayhaps. It could also be that my place is poorly insulated. I suspect as much, to be honest. The place has unit cooling but central heating. In the summer, I cool only my bedroom and nothing more.
Back to the subject at hand, though: I've worked in the past as a personal cook. Everyone I worked for had gas ranges except one family that had electric because the wife was afraid of having open flame in her home.
I had little problem with switching to her electric cook top, but I most certainly prefer gas.

[Anonymous No.4120181]

>tfw uni flat has crappy electric hob (albeit ceramic)

[Anonymous No.4120209]

>>4120181
>tfw I kept leaving it on because I wasn't used to using them
Felt like such an idiot.

[Anonymous No.4120232]

>>4120087
no room for one brah, trust me i would if i had somewhere to put it. me and the gf are crammed into this tiny apartment. its barely enough room for 1 person, let alone 2.

[Anonymous No.4120260]

>tfw white stove top and light gray grates

What's the best way to clean burnt grime off a stovetop?

I usually just use a wire wheel attachment on my power drill.

[Anonymous No.4120272]

>>4120025
Not the person you're responding to but holy shit Arizona fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.4120314]

>not cooking on gas
>being poor
how do you live?

[Anonymous No.4120324]

>>4120314
not at my parents house.

[Anonymous No.4122110]

GAS STOVE MASTER RACE!

[Anonymous No.4122142]

>>4120165
Plus if you live in certain states where gas prices lowered this year and electricity went UP due to drillan.

Also, induction master race.
>Hardly as dangerous
>Cooks quick
>Clean

[Anonymous No.4122178]

>>4120097
I have a flat bottom wok and a round bottom that I use with a gas camp stove. The flat bottom wok is the only one that has any seasoning on it because it makes great fried eggs

[Anonymous No.4122182]

yfw when I use a bottle of propane because I don't have gas

[Anonymous No.4122303]

>Be in Uni
>Chilling in kitchen with friend
>Shitty oven with electric plates
>Cleaning up kitchen surface
>Acidently put the palm of my hand on the plate
>Retard flatmate had left it on overnight
>Skin peels off my hand
>Have it bandages for an entire term so can't even beat his arse properly.

Later that year he left a wok full of oil on the stove when making some chips. He was drunk and forgot about them and went to bed and the half our flat got engulfed in flames. Thankfully I stay up until about 4am and smelt the smoke.

[Anonymous No.4122314]

I prefer electric because I'm afraid of a gas stove exploding in my house