Gas!

Sorry but I hated the induction hob in my last house, it was a big fat PITA. It's just not intuitive like gas and there's usually no nice simple knobs. At the crucial moment you need to turn heat up/down you will always find yourself stabbing at unresponsive "+ or -" buttons where 1 is very low and 10 is very high...

And no visitor (grandparents, childminders) will ever be able to work the damn thing out, so you'll come home to them saying "sorry we couldn't cook dinner for DCs because we couldn't work the blasted hob so we had to give them crisps instead".

And a well meaning cleaner or grandparent will scratch it from using the wrong cleaning product as the list of things you can't use on it is very long, and it will look s**t.

Don't even get me started on trying to stir-fry properly on induction.

Posted By: Old Git on October 29th 2014 at 18:29:30

Message Thread

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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