Cooking with gas or electric?

Austin Powers said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. What are some
thoughts/experiences on this?

PS The oven I am thinking of buying is the KitchenAid KDSS907SSS ...I like
the stainless stell, the digital read-out and the 'InstaWok' feature that
lets me use a wok.

Maybe expensive electric ovens are OK, but cheap ones suck. My wife
is a baker (couldn't cook an entree to save her life), and she insists
on gas.

--Bryan

Austin Powers said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove. However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. �

Why... do you have stock in your local electric utility company?

Quoted message said:

What are some thoughts/experiences on this?

Your cost for oven energy use will rise about four-fold, and for no
benefit derived whatsoever. Not to mention that you will need a 220
Volt - 60 Amp dedicated line installed, not inexpensive, can easily
cost more than you pay for your new stove.

The GE Profile gas range is available with a convection gas oven...
just one model of many: http://tinyurl.com/32nle6

http://products.geappliances.com/ApplProducts/Dispatcher?CHANNEL=CH0004&REQUEST=SPECPAGE&SITEID=DER&SKU=JGB915BEFBB

Sheldon

"Austin Powers" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. What are some
thoughts/experiences on this?

PS The oven I am thinking of buying is the KitchenAid KDSS907SSS ...I like
the stainless stell, the digital read-out and the 'InstaWok' feature that
lets me use a wok.

I don't like a gas oven for baking or roasting. Bread and roasts don't
brown as nicely.
Janet

Bobo Bonobo(R) said:

Austin Powers said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. What are some
thoughts/experiences on this?

PS The oven I am thinking of buying is the KitchenAid KDSS907SSS ...I like
the stainless stell, the digital read-out and the 'InstaWok' feature that
lets me use a wok.

Maybe expensive electric ovens are OK, but cheap ones suck. My wife
is a baker (couldn't cook an entree to save her life), and she insists
on gas.

--Bryan

There are differences between gas and electric for sure. Electric ovens
with typically hold a tighter temperature tolerance than gas ovens and
gas ovens introduce humidity into the oven from the combustion that
electric ovens do not. I don't believe either is a must have better
than, certainly not the way the cook top burners are.

Personally I have a dual fuel range with LP burners up top and electric
convection main oven and electric side oven which seems to give me the
best of everything. I've also used commercial double stack convection
ovens in both gas and electric and not found much operational difference
between them.

Janet B. said:

"Austin Powers" wrote:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

Quoted message said:

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. �What are some
thoughts/experiences on this?

Quoted message said:

PS The oven I am thinking of buying is the KitchenAid KDSS907SSS ...I like
the stainless stell, the digital read-out and the 'InstaWok' feature that
lets me use a wok.

I don't like a gas oven for baking or roasting. �Bread and roasts don't
brown as nicely.
Janet

Nonsense... you were obviously a [censored] poor science student in JHS.
Temperature is temperature, the same with either... and the moisture
argument is myth. The only time condensation is present in a gas
oven is when first lit, it's gone before 150F is reached. There is
less water vapor produced and introduced from burning gas than their
is coming off the cooking food itself... and in either case it all
vents out anyway. So there is no more or less humidity present in a
hot gas oven as in a hot electric oven. And gas ovens are actually
more temperature accurate for the same reason gas top burners are more
accurate, they are instant on and off... electric element temperature
still heats after turned off from residual heat (anyone with an
electric cooktop should know this) and tends to heat above the
thermostat setting and then needs more time to reheat from off
permitting the oven to cool... so the drift in either direction with
electric is a bit wider, and that's with thermostat anticipators being
equal for both.... but you're talking perhaps +/- 2 degrees, totally
meaningless for cooking regardless of fuel type. If you have a
problem with browning there is one reason and one reason ONLY, you
don't know how to cook.

Sheldon

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Janet B. said:

"Austin Powers" wrote:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

Quoted message said:

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. ?What are some
thoughts/experiences on this?

Quoted message said:

PS The oven I am thinking of buying is the KitchenAid KDSS907SSS ...I
like
the stainless stell, the digital read-out and the 'InstaWok' feature
that
lets me use a wok.

I don't like a gas oven for baking or roasting. ?Bread and roasts don't
brown as nicely.
Janet

Nonsense... you were obviously a [censored] poor science student in JHS.
Temperature is temperature, the same with either... and the moisture
argument is myth. The only time condensation is present in a gas
oven is when first lit, it's gone before 150F is reached. There is
less water vapor produced and introduced from burning gas than their
is coming off the cooking food itself... and in either case it all
vents out anyway. So there is no more or less humidity present in a
hot gas oven as in a hot electric oven. And gas ovens are actually
more temperature accurate for the same reason gas top burners are more
accurate, they are instant on and off... electric element temperature
still heats after turned off from residual heat (anyone with an
electric cooktop should know this) and tends to heat above the
thermostat setting and then needs more time to reheat from off
permitting the oven to cool... so the drift in either direction with
electric is a bit wider, and that's with thermostat anticipators being
equal for both.... but you're talking perhaps +/- 2 degrees, totally
meaningless for cooking regardless of fuel type. If you have a
problem with browning there is one reason and one reason ONLY, you
don't know how to cook.

Sheldon
Or, perhaps you're just an indifferent cook and can't tell the difference?
Janet

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Quoted message said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

Quoted message said:

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. What are some
thoughts/experiences on this?

Quoted message said:

PS The oven I am thinking of buying is the KitchenAid KDSS907SSS ...I like
the stainless stell, the digital read-out and the 'InstaWok' feature that
lets me use a wok.

I learned to cook on gas and it took me a while to get used to
cooking with electricity; but I much prefer it now . I hate cooking on
my sons' gas cookers.

Features I like; two glass-door, illuminated ovens, which can be
used independently. The large one is fan-assisted and self-cleaning.
Both can be set on a timer to turn themselves on and off automatically,
very useful if you're out a lot. It's got a stainless steel outer shell
which is very easy to clean. The ceramic hob is also very easy to keep
clean (and more heat-adjustable than gas, IME).

Janet

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Austin Powers said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. ?

Why... do you have stock in your local electric utility company?

Quoted message said:

What are some thoughts/experiences on this?

Your cost for oven energy use will rise about four-fold, and for no
benefit derived whatsoever.

For summer use consider your air conditioning bill. Fire consumes air --
and as a result it's always pumping hot gases into the kitchen. Electric
consumes no air, produces no pollution in your kitchen. It will not fight
your air conditioning nearly as much. (This is also true for electric
burners, for the die hards who prefer them.)

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Austin Powers said:

I currently have an all gas oven and love cooking with gas on the stove.

However, I'm drawn to using electricity for my oven. ?

Why... do you have stock in your local electric utility company?

Quoted message said:

What are some thoughts/experiences on this?

The following text should have been quoted. It is not mine. It is
Sheldon's.

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Your cost for oven energy use will rise about four-fold, and for no
benefit derived whatsoever.

This text is mine.

Quoted message said:

For summer use consider your air conditioning bill. Fire consumes air --
and as a result it's always pumping hot gases into the kitchen. Electric
consumes no air, produces no pollution in your kitchen. It will not fight
your air conditioning nearly as much. (This is also true for electric
burners, for the die hards who prefer them.)

NoTech RedNeck said:

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This text is mine.

Were you HiTech you'd know how to trim posts.

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For summer use consider your air conditioning bill. �Fire consumes air -
and as a result it's always pumping hot gases into the kitchen. �Electric
consumes no air, produces no pollution in your kitchen. �It willnot fight
your air conditioning nearly as much. �(This is also true for electric
burners, for the die hards who prefer them.)

Do you really think cooking with electric negates the four-fold
savings in energy costs compared with gas... not even close. And
there is no pollution from gas cooking, cooking food in of itself is
what produces major pollution... that's why intelligent folks use
exhaust fans... wtf were you saying about burning up air... you'd
produce a vacuum to match the one in your skull.

And who cares... heat is heat regardless of fuel used... only utter
morons, those with more dollars than brain cells, use their oven
during hot summer periods... people with even a modicum of
intelligence do heavy cooking outdoors, mostly with _gas_... some use
charcaol but a relatively small minority. Hardly anyone has an
outdoor electric grill, mainly because they are much too expensive to
operate.

Most people have electric cooking because mostly their living
arrangements do not permit gas (apartments, condos, etc.), or they
already have electric and choose not to expend the dollars to convert,
and some miniscule proportion doesn't have the testicals to admit
they're too cheap to convert so instead they claim they're ascared of
gas.... which is utter foolishness because there are far more house
fires and electricutions due to electric stoves than there are gas
stoves that blow up... modern gas appliances are extremely safe, far
safer than electric.

I can't remember the last time I lit my oven during warm weather...
it's the heat produced that negates A/C... you trying to say electric
cooking produces no heat. duh

Sheldon