Electric stoves are very common even where natural gas is available, and even more common where it isn't.
The only induction stoves I can find are very high end models. I'm thinking about it, but for the cost I can install gas (including plumbing) and save money.
Even on the high end there is often on model with induction so if you want some other option as well you are stuck.
I moved into a brand new house of which the only stovetop option was gas, in part because of marketing dollars from our local monopoly granted utility.
Why was induction not an option? And now to upgrade, I'm going to have to have a 240v line installed to the location.
What I really want is this induction stove like this but that also has a single gas burner. Induction is great, but there are some things you can't do with it, but it covers 90% really well.
I guess the alternative is to get a portable high-output single burner butane stove that I can pull out when I want to arroser a steak, for example.
My wife can be in another room and not even know I've turned on the stove/oven, and she starts to cough when I start cooking. (we rent, don't get at me about replacing)
I try to use our portable induction burner whenever I can now, even though we pay for electricity but we don't pay for gas.
I was extremely skeptical and snooty about the potential of induction cooktops when it was first floated, but if I owned a home I would definitely prefer an induction stovetop to a gas one now. Induction is a lot faster and more responsive than gas, in my experience. Just wish there were induction stovetops that has real knobs and weren't so easily cracked or scraped.
I'm kind of excited about this because I hope it increases demand for induction stoves so that they fix useability issues like this, and make more. Right now you're lucky to go to Best Buy or Home Depot and find a single induction stove.
I've been looking at them, but almost all have unusable touch controls. (My background is human machine interaction - I've never seen an acceptable stove, but induction stoves are all really bad). Since I've have to replace all my cookware as well I'm not in any hurry.
I have a gas stove but will be moving to induction soon given it meets our needs better. You already see induction in high end new builds (with gas in mid-end and older builds).
Current place I rent has those awful resistive heating stovetop, previous place had induction. I miss gas - for some stuff I now have to either use a small camp stove type gas thing or a blowtorch, electric (resistive or induction) simply is no fucking good at all for some cooking tasks.
What kind of stove do you now have? I’ve had coil (trash), ceramic (still trash) and induction (amazing, and way better than gas, at the cost of needing compatible cookware) - I’d never voluntarily to back to gas.
Yup! Since we don't have the space for a wall oven, I seeked a double oven. It turns out there's only one manufacturer (GE Cafe) that makes a double oven with an induction range.
1) It seems like you have to spend a lot to approach even a cheap gas stove, as far as cooking quality; and
2) Even on (say) Reddit threads full of people posting about how great they are, the same people comment a lot about how careful they have to be with the cooktop or how many times they've cracked and ruined(!!!) theirs and had to replace it.
Induction is great, but an electric kettle costs like 10 bucks while changing your stove is a huge investment that includes replacing all your pots and pans, plus if you were using gas before now your household electricity consumption grows very noticeably. Not really a comparable option in my opinion.
Hope that comes with a price drop. Gas is the only option right now if you want cheap and well-performing. Last I checked (maybe a year ago?) the cheapest induction ranges were well into the middle tier of prices. Which makes the fact that I keep seeing stuff about their tending to stop working after only a few years, or suffering from very-fragile surfaces that are easy to crack and ruin, even more of a turn-off.
Can’t find them anywhere. Particularly one with a double oven. Going to install the gas line because there are way more options available.
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