Otter
Sous Chef
What type of range do you use at home?
What type of range do you use at home?
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middie
Chef Extraordinaire
gas... nothing special about my stove though. it's just there
crewsk
Master Chef
I have an electric smoothe top ceramic. I love it because it is eary to keep the top clean!
choclatechef
Washing Up
I have an 1980's black Roper with the downdraft feature, solid burners, convection oven, and the grill.
Otter
Sous Chef
Hmm, probably should have said range instead of stove. How come it's always easier to see mistakes after you've hit submit? Oh well, I guess everyone gets the drift. I have a Maytag smooth top ceramic.
Weeks
Senior Cook
I use what my apartment complex installed. 4-top electric coil stove. I hate it. I want a gas range like nothing else.
ronjohn55
Head Chef
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Ours is gas, but it's probably actually somewhere between run of the mill and the professional models.
It's got an oversized convection oven, and a 'power burner' that goes something like 11,500 BTU's (can't remember off hand, but that sounds about right). Granted, that's nothing compared to the 100,000 BTU propane burners that I use when I make beer. 8)
John
It's got an oversized convection oven, and a 'power burner' that goes something like 11,500 BTU's (can't remember off hand, but that sounds about right). Granted, that's nothing compared to the 100,000 BTU propane burners that I use when I make beer. 8)
John
marmalady
Executive Chef
We have a 'dual fuel'; propane gas range, and electric/convection oven.
GB
Chief Eating Officer
I have two hotpoint electric coil stoves. My neighborhood can't have gas, but luckily the majority of my cooking experiences have been with electric so I am very used to it. Some day I would love to have gas though.
CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
Gas is great, but what garbage of s stove do I have. 
It is Kitchen Aid. I do not think they even make it anymore. It was and still is a toy not a stove. When I went to get it, I new very little about stoves and just picked up the second to the most expensive one in Sears. It takes forever to boil a pot of water. Never again!
It is Kitchen Aid. I do not think they even make it anymore. It was and still is a toy not a stove. When I went to get it, I new very little about stoves and just picked up the second to the most expensive one in Sears. It takes forever to boil a pot of water. Never again!Well, I live in one house most of the time and it has an old General Electric, circa 1970, self-cleaning electric range with coil burners. It just keeps working and working and working.
I also have high end Dacor cooktop and Kitchen Aid Architect series dual fuel range and they are no better than $300 gas cooktops. They look good in a high end upscale kitchen, but that's about it. They're over rated, but when it comes time to sell, it will actually be a positive selling point.
I also have high end Dacor cooktop and Kitchen Aid Architect series dual fuel range and they are no better than $300 gas cooktops. They look good in a high end upscale kitchen, but that's about it. They're over rated, but when it comes time to sell, it will actually be a positive selling point.
AllenOK
Executive Chef
We have an electric, that came with the apartment.
I've lived in four apartments, and had the good luck to have gas at one of them.
However, I've always believed that there are good and bad points to both kinds of stoves.
Electric:
-takes forever to heat a coil and a pan.
-temperature changes take time, either up or down.
-great for simmering large quantities of liquids, with the wide-area, low heat of the coil
-can't flambe a pan very well.
Gas:
-low heat produces a small "hot spot" at the center, need a flame tamer for gentle heating.
-instant on, instant off, temperature changes are fast, basically however long it takes for the pan to react.
I've lived in four apartments, and had the good luck to have gas at one of them.
However, I've always believed that there are good and bad points to both kinds of stoves.
Electric:
-takes forever to heat a coil and a pan.
-temperature changes take time, either up or down.
-great for simmering large quantities of liquids, with the wide-area, low heat of the coil
-can't flambe a pan very well.
Gas:
-low heat produces a small "hot spot" at the center, need a flame tamer for gentle heating.
-instant on, instant off, temperature changes are fast, basically however long it takes for the pan to react.
Catseye
Senior Cook
marmalady said:
Oo! Oo! Ooooo! That's what I want!
Cats
Markf
Cook
I replaced a vintage 70s Whirlpool stove (actually worn out and old but sounded cool) with a Dacor Preference Dual Fuel and am a very happy camper.
Mark
Mark
quidscribis
Assistant Cook
Gas, but that's all that is available in this country.
Should you be interesting, I'll tell you a little more... Gas lines don't exist. We have to get our large blue propane tanks and hook up the stove to it. And because the propane tanks don't have as much output as gas lines, the oven doesn't heat up as much as it's supposed to, so it's very difficult to get a hot enough oven for some things.
Also, it's small. Sure, it's got four burners, but it looks like a toy next to anything North American. Welcome to Asia, where everything is small!
Should you be interesting, I'll tell you a little more... Gas lines don't exist. We have to get our large blue propane tanks and hook up the stove to it. And because the propane tanks don't have as much output as gas lines, the oven doesn't heat up as much as it's supposed to, so it's very difficult to get a hot enough oven for some things.
Also, it's small. Sure, it's got four burners, but it looks like a toy next to anything North American. Welcome to Asia, where everything is small!
Claire
Master Chef
The main thing with the smooth top electric range is the clean up. No matter what all the pros say about it has to be gas ... the person who says gas only isn't the person who scrubs the stove. If you have to clean it every day .....
