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Mdot21

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #896 on: April 10, 2019, 10:06:50 PM »
Quote from: MichiFan87 on April 10, 2019, 05:32:47 PM
There's also a push for electrification of HVAC and appliances that are often run on gas (stoves, ovens, etc.)
could not care less when it comes to ovens, but I'd fight to the death to keep a gas range over an electric cooktop. Electric cooktops just pale in comparison to a kick ass gas range. They actually suck compared to a gas range.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #897 on: April 10, 2019, 10:30:43 PM »
My house has been ALL electric since it was built in 1981

but, I like my V-8 gassers in vehicles
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #898 on: April 10, 2019, 11:15:00 PM »
I definitely prefer gas ranges.

"They say" electric convection ovens are superior, and that's what we have, but only because that's what the house had when we bought it.  I have no experience with gas convection ovens (is there such a thing?) to determine whether or not it's better.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #899 on: April 11, 2019, 06:54:25 AM »
The electric ovens definitely hold their temps better*. Gotta have 220 to make them go, so you can't just change it out easily. I wanted to in our old place, but the conduit from the box to the stove outlet was not large enough to carry the heavy gage wire. I was not gonna start tearing up drywall and other things, so, I ended up with the full gas range instead of the electric/gas combo.



Much like MDot, big brother would have to come shoot me to take my gas stove away. I might even shoot back.



It snowed here yesterday. Mother nature is not funny. She's a bitch.




* the good ones
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #900 on: April 11, 2019, 07:21:22 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on April 10, 2019, 09:52:00 PM
I'm a few miles south and east of the blizzard line
thankfully
I'm sure the Blizzard will stick to the flight plans the meteorologists lay out for it
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utee94

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #901 on: April 11, 2019, 07:29:02 AM »
Yeah we've got 220 (221... whatever it takes) to the wall oven and the dryer.  Which makes me recall, our dryer is gas as well.  The oven seems to work well, better than the gas one in our old house, but that also was not a convection oven. The gas drier works extremely well.

But like you, it's the gas cooktop I wouldn't want to do without.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #902 on: April 11, 2019, 07:55:37 AM »
I strongly prefer the induction cook top to gas, as does the wife.  I was OK with the stove that was in the unit, which was regular electric, but the wife rather insisted we replace it with the induction unit we bought.  I was cooking with gas (ha) while we were in Boston, a nice stove, and we both commented how much we preferred induction.

It does require special ferromagnetic cookware.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #903 on: April 11, 2019, 11:01:01 AM »
Never used induction and don't have any desire to retrofit for it.  If I somehow moved into a house that already had it, I suppose I'd purchase the appropriate cookware and use it.

As far as gas to regular electric, there's no comparison. Regular electric is miserable and I'd never go back to it, even if the gubment tried to force me.  
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #904 on: April 11, 2019, 11:05:28 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on April 11, 2019, 07:21:22 AM
I'm sure the Blizzard will stick to the flight plans the meteorologists lay out for it
so far, so good!
just rain and wind
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #905 on: April 11, 2019, 11:08:18 AM »
The regular electric is awful.  If we had gas I'd keep it.  As I said, we swapped out a perfectly good electric range for induction (adding another $3300 to the cost of the kitchen).  I've used the new stove a few times and it is remarkably better than conduction.

The wife wanted gas in the old kitchen until we got induction.  If you are in the market for a new stove somehow, I'd strongly suggest considering induction.  It works better than gas and of course is easier to clean.  The other advantage is that it doesn't heat up the kitchen in summer due to heat bypassing the cooking pot.  That is important around here.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #906 on: April 11, 2019, 11:34:09 AM »
Not looking for a new cooktop any time in the next decade, but I'll keep it in mind. :)
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #907 on: April 11, 2019, 11:40:46 AM »
Does the top scratch on those things? Cast iron skillet??
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #908 on: April 11, 2019, 01:20:50 PM »
I imagine the top could scratch, but ours in Cincy never did at all.  The top material is the same as with regular electric burners.

Cast iron works on it, I don't know what happens if you "shake" the skillet on the surface.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #909 on: April 11, 2019, 02:10:26 PM »
I don't trust electromagnetism, no sirree.  Just good ol' flame for me.



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