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I must have been thinking of some other PITA to clean

Though others disagree - in fact gas or induction seems to be a right old topic on mumsnet, Trickster should have gone on there and asked the pros instead of canvassing idiots on here

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Posted By: Old Git on October 29th 2014 at 18:10:46

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Hobs. Gas or electric? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 29, 16:54:24
- Gas hob electric oven (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Oct 29, 20:41:04
- Nails. (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Oct 29, 20:06:40
- Nobs. Chocolate ones are best. (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Oct 29, 20:06:26
- We have an electric hob, it's absolutely fantastic (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 29, 19:29:30
  - Big Chaz settles it (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 29, 19:39:27
- Whatever Rachel Khoo uses. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Oct 29, 19:18:29
- No choice for me, gas isn't available where i live so can i register a vote for electric (n/m) (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Oct 29, 19:04:01
  - JUDAS !!!!!!!!!!!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Oct 29, 19:06:19
- Gas or induction. Not much in it really (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 29, 18:39:23
- Gas (General Chat) - Surrey Yella, Oct 29, 18:36:07
- Gas! (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:27:01
  - Induction! (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:28:27
    - Gas! (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:29:30
      - Induction! (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:31:44
        
        Gas! (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:33:35
        
        Don't know! (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:35:02
        
        ha ha, that was me! (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:33:29
      - AAAAAAARGH! I've going to put myself on ignore! (n/m) (General Chat) - schizo canary, Oct 29, 18:30:21
- Aligning myself to Tombs (General Chat) - CauldRon, Oct 29, 18:17:35
  - Me too after doing a bit of research (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Oct 29, 18:19:49
- Gas. Every time. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 29, 17:59:57
  - if he has a pro kitchen in his house then absolutely yes (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:07:26
    - I have never heard of an induction hob before today, so I'm just doing gas v electric advi (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 29, 18:23:36
      - induction is electric (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:26:38
    - he drives a wedge, they've won the BTCC loads of times in a row recently (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 29, 18:10:25
      - wtf is a wedge? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:12:31
        
        Honda Civic (n/m) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Oct 29, 18:17:43
        
        rolf (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:18:53
- I'd have gone for induction except we'd have had to spend ?X hundred pounds on pans (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Oct 29, 17:59:36
  - wrong (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:22:49
    - Jeez, we wouldn't buy a single pan for less than twice that set. It makes a really big dif (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Oct 29, 19:13:13
- I would have said gas but I inherited a nice Stoves Halogen hob (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 29, 17:51:57
- Gas for sure, far more control, instant heat (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 17:44:33
- Gas (General Chat) - Brandonio, Oct 29, 17:43:00
- Another vote for gas. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Oct 29, 17:38:53
- gas hands down (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Oct 29, 17:36:32
- gas hob electric oven. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Oct 29, 17:36:22
- Gas is far better. Get a hob with a wok burner... (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Oct 29, 17:34:43
  - Get that one as good price + ?70 cashback from Bosch. Bargain! (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Oct 29, 17:39:26
    - just bought myself a Bosch gas cooker the other week (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 29, 21:07:05
- AGA (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Oct 29, 17:11:45
  - He's in That London (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 17:45:38
- gas (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 29, 17:11:43
- Gas. Any other answer is just wrong. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Oct 29, 17:04:37
- Hob gas, Oven electric......it's the law (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 29, 17:02:55
  - Agreed (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Oct 29, 17:40:22
  - Yep (General Chat) - Surrey Yella, Oct 29, 17:09:45
- Gas. Every time. (General Chat) - APB, Oct 29, 17:00:26
  - Which tells me that electric (induction?) hobs are TWICE AS FAST as gas ones (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 29, 17:04:40
    - Bollocks. (General Chat) - APB, Oct 29, 17:05:24
      - Apparently you have to have special (ferrous) pans so they're magnetic (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 29, 17:07:30
        
        PITA to clean though (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 17:46:31
        
        absolute opposite (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 17:58:45
        
        Mumsnet says (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 18:10:46
        
        dunno bout mumsnet just saying that i've had gas, leccy and induction (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 18:16:40
        
        we got an induction hob (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 29, 17:17:28
        
        Gas and heavy bottomed (!) WMF Gourmet+ pans. (General Chat) - APB, Oct 29, 17:22:02
- Dunno, mum still wipes my arse (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 16:57:59
  - Lol (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 17:46:46
  - ^^bit weird for a 40 year old bloke^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 29, 17:01:40
    - a 40 year old bloke doesn't wipe my arse (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 18:28:25
      - I could if you ask nicely! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Oct 29, 20:41:57
- (This isn't an academic question btw. I need to decide over the next few days...) (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 29, 16:54:51
  - Electric (n/m) (General Chat) - Hendrikos, Oct 29, 16:55:49
    - Controversial beginning (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 29, 16:56:56
      - Gas (n/m) (General Chat) - Basil Wrathbone, Oct 29, 16:57:17
        
        Some people go on about these new-fangled induction hobs (n/m) (General Chat) - Basil Wrathbone, Oct 29, 16:58:28

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