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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • While on the surface, that is true, it’s also true that for the most part, it comes down to learning your particular equipment. You know what your stove is going to do based on which pan you use and what the flame looks like. And it’s basically the same on induction. You know that if you put it on a specific setting with a specific pan what it will do. At first, it might be weird and confusing not having that visual feedback. But you still get all of the other feedback you normally get.

    And here’s a big one! You get extra feedback when you aren’t using gas. You can actually smell what’s going on in the pan. With gas, the fumes go up around the outside of the pan, cover up, and carry off the smells from the pan. That was something we didn’t think about when switching from gas to induction, but it’s something my wife noticed and pointed out to me.

    I could go on about induction for a long time. I think it is hands down better. For background, I’ve always had electric stoves, and found the newer glass top style to be perfectly adequate. We bought a bed and breakfast that had a gas stove, and I was really excited to “upgrade” to gas and I was shocked at how much I actually hated using it. We had a cheap induction burner from Amazon for years and liked it a lot, so we decided to get an induction stove and it’s been amazing.








  • As a semi professional cook, let me assure you it doesn’t change the flavor. I could talk about this for a long time.

    The gist of it is this. Old electric cook tops, the crappy coil kind, really did suck. And at that time, gas was far better. But things have changed. Cooks, like so many other professions, hold on to old dogma and do not like letting go.

    Add on top of that gas industry lobbying and advertising, and you get myths that stick, and stick hard.


  • Induction doesn’t cook worse than gas. That’s just decades long gas industry propaganda. Induction, and even just resistive electric, is so so much nicer than gas. It’s crazy how people have been literally gaslit by gas companies.

    The only things not compatible, at least the vast majority, are cheap aluminum pans. When we made the switch, all the pans were owned were compatible.

    Wiring and cost are the only valid reasons not to go with induction.