Problems with gas stovetops | weak, dirty and dangerous

[RadioactiveLobster]

Gas stoves work when the power is out as well, that's helped us cook meals several times during bad storms and outages.

[MrSharky]

“Weak, dirty, and dangerous” was the reason the coach gave for cutting me from my high school’s football team…

[soniashapiro]

Whenever we start cooking with water, for pasta eg, we fill the electric kettle and the water heats up so much faster in the kettle. I think it might save money, too. Electric kettles are extremely efficient and inexpensive to buy as well as operate.

[EphemeralProductions]

I've noticed that Adam REALLY enunciates his words and makes totally sure he has clear speech. Which for me, as a hearing-impaired person, I actually appreciate. :)

[bzymek]

As someone who used Gas Stoves my whole life, i finnaly get some of the things i didn't undestand from your older videos. Like the whole simmering sauce on low heat for a couple hours - mine stove would burn that if i didn't stir every 10 minutes or so.

[robertmcmanus]

Adam, I wanted to point out the your “old glass top stove” is not just an electric coil stove with some glass on top of it. It is called a “infrared cooktop” and they use either a halogen lamp or quartz infrared bulbs in combination with a heating coil. The infrared cooktops rely principally on infrared light to radiatively heat up your cookware whereas the old-style electric coil stovetops rely chiefly on conduction from your cookware sitting directly on the heating element. Infrared cooktops are FAR more efficient than the coil style cooktops (2-3x more heat transfer per watt) and WAY more responsive (although less than gas or induction). As a lover of cast iron who has had the same 8” and 12” lodge cast iron skillets since 2010 I can tell you this: nothing heats up cast iron as evenly as in infrared cooktop so long the element is not smaller than your pan. That is my main problem with the induction cooktops on the market today, not big enough “burners”. I’ve never seen one big enough for my 12” skillet to not have a crazy bad hotspot in the middle. Of course, most gas burners have the opposite problem of a hot ring on the outside of the pan, although a good burner with a inner and outer ring does a pretty damn good job. Induction also interferes with my touch screens on my electronic devices even feet away from the stove and are a serious concern for people with pacemakers, but I'm all aboard the induction train once they are more affordable and have 12"+ induction elements. Big fan here from Colorado, Cheers!

[GrzegorzWiniarski]

I've heard in an interview with a pro chef that the main argument for professional kitchens switching to induction is that it largely improves working environment: induction doesn't heat the air and it makes a difference.
The main disadvantage of the electric (coil based) stovetops is their huge power consumption - it may not make a difference in the US, but in Europe it does.

[vredesduifje]

As someone who's cooked on electric, gas, and induction: i agree that induction is the future. Gas is responsive sure, but so is induction. It's fast, safe, rarely any chance of catching fire. It is easy to clean just like electric, and uses less energy to do the same thing. No heating of the air around you.

Literally the only thing that it cannot do is work in a power outage.
If i get to choose: induction all the way.

[rp]

'When this old girl peters out, I'm going induction.'
Your kids will have left the nest before that gas stove shows any sign of slowing down.

[pss]

Tysm for acknowledging that replacing a perfectly good item for a more energy efficient alternative is worse for the environment, so sad when people get too caught up and mean well but do more damage

[Siriliasa]

I've lived with electric coil, induction and gas stove tops. For boiling water, nothing will beat induction. I live with a gas range right now, and I have a portable induction range just for boiling water. For everything else, I am loving my gas range. I do a lot of wok cooking and the amount of control and tactility has been unmatched.

[JesPulido]

Oh hey, this video actually aged like fine wine. **chef's kiss** Adam was ahead of his time.

[themastermason]

The "low on a gas stove is not low enough" reminds me of this video by German blacksmith Daniel Lea where he showed how to cook chili on a blacksmith's forge. He said that the lowest the forge could go with the forced air cut off is still enough to make the pan glow red. Instead he had to frequently pull the pan off the heat.

[patrickgono]

I love induction stoves. The heat is immediate, and much, much stronger than on my previous, conventional, electric stove. And at the same time, I have perfect control of the temperature, I can go as low as I want. And if I'm done, I just turn off the stove and apart from the heat from the pot, it gets cold immediately. It combines the strong points of both conventional approaches.

[danielhesson]

We had a gas stove for 3 years or so and recently moved into a house with an induction stove top. The induction is fantastic, boils water insanely fast. Only downside so far is that the lows aren't that low.

[fastfreddy]

Honestly Adam, I have cooked on gas my whole life (61 years) and I have never had any of the problems you do. I did torch a couple of pot holders and melted a plastic spoon but you can do that with an electric stove too. And you can still cook on gas when the power is out, you can turn down the burner instantly and it is easy to visually see if a burner is on by the flame. It is easy to leave an electric burner on low for hours and not know it.

[KomandantMirko]

the biggest reason i like gas stoves more is durability. yes, controlling the flame at a whim is a big plus and all that, but if i accidentally drop a pan on my stove i'd rather dent the pan than have to repair the stove. i've worked in restaurants that had glass tops and they were always cracked. gas stoves with their raised cooking surface effectively make a shield. that's a massive plus

[loviebeest]

Our boiler is electric, when there is a power failure we are so glad to have a gas stovetop to warm up water to use in the middle of winter. We had it happen multiple times that our stovetop was our savior.

[Imsosappy]

Dude, I lived in a house for 3 years until I noticed my stove had a retractable vent thing. I hit the button when I was cleaning the stove top, was living a lie the whole time.

[bigangenbygang]

Technology Connections did a video that touched on this while talking about why electric kettles aren't common over here.

TLDR is that if you boil a lot of water, get one. Even if you've got an electric stovetop. It boils faster than almost all things. I use one for boiling water while my pot heats up and it makes pasta take half as long to cook.