[Sca-cooks] gas vs. electric ovens and ranges

[Stefan li Rous]

Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:
 > As I was driving on I-95, between Savannah, GA and Jacksonville, FL, I
 > caught an ad.  Didn't see *what* it was for, but I giggled at the ad
 > itself.  It read:
 >
 >   "9 out of 10 chefs prefer gas over electricity.  The other guy is a sushi
 > chef"
Ok, what do you folks really think about electricity vs. natural
gas stoves and ovens?

We're going to start looking at houses again. I'm not sure that I've
ever cooked over an electric range. Our current house has natural
gas, but some of the houses we've looked at in our new area were
built as 100% electric and on septic systems. The advantage of these
is that they are are on much larger lots (because of the septic)
than the newer houses we've been looking at. IF we found one in
our price range, and most aren't, I'm wondering how well I would
deal with the electric range or whether I would really need to
investigate changing to a propane system or connecting to the
city system. Now that the gas mains have extended out past this
nieghborhood, there are gas lines run near some of the houses.

My mother decided she wanted gas when she moved to our house in
1968 from a house where she had electric, but was telling me recently
"I'm sure you will adjust to an electric range"...
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