Really wish I could get a half gas half induction cooktop. They both have their pros and cons. However the pollution con of gas can be remedied with proper ventilation

they won me over 🥹

It was impossible to sear on my old electric stove. If there was a way to have controllable fire heat without gas, I'd use it.

Gas stoves never really got popular where I live. Been cooking on a electric stove all my life, not induction. Have had to use a gas stove in cabin conditions and the chance of accidentally leaving the gas on and such always freaks me out. Also I dislike having to fiddle with the flame, electric is far more predictable.

Have raised a family aka cooked a lot for a few decades with an old school electric stove just fine, have also worked in kitchens and bakeries that had similar stoves. Very much a cooking person myself.

I think it's just what you get used to.

Induction ranges are not what most people think of have when they say “electric stoves.”

I prefer gas, apparently that choice wasn't as independent as I thought

I cook on a slab of enriched uranium-235 and I'm faster than all of you losers

I've had both over the last few years, and while the cooking experience is not all that different tbh, the one thing that bugs me about my current glass-top electric stove is that the surface is so flat that my ever-so-slightly warped carbon steel pan doesn't sit flat and rocks all over the place and doesn't heat evenly. I've basically been unable to use it since moving here, and it's my favorite pan. :(

But if I had my choice, I'd ofc go induction, but between the other two I'd still go electric, just for the fumes alone. But I'll probably be way less hot on the idea of glass-tops in the future, that's for sure.

I for one, refuse to ignite my flambe with a torch like a peasant! My gas range does it for me and I get to feel like mother fucking Gordon Ramsay!

I've never used induction, is it that bad?