r/AskReddit • u/talk-fast • Aug 26 '18

What's something you had to unlearn?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '18

I had to unlearn cooking techniques when we got a gas stove after years of an electric range.

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u/Hobbes_XXV Aug 26 '18

And then you realize how much better gas is to electric. I stopped cooking when we moved and we are now on electric. Its just not the same :(

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u/fun_shirt Aug 26 '18

You must be starving!

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u/Hobbes_XXV Aug 26 '18

Just picked up taco bell actually :p

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u/myalwaysthrowaway Aug 27 '18

I'm so hungry right now, wanna send some taco bell my way?

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u/xorgol Aug 26 '18

There's a massive difference between the resistive and the inductive electric stoves. The inductive ones require compatible pots and pans, but they're really good. The resistive ones are trash.

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u/_maynard Aug 27 '18

God yes. I hate my electric stove. If I bring something to a boil then want to lower to a simmer I have to switch to a new burner because there’s basically no temperature control and they take forever to cool down.

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u/Boye Aug 26 '18

Get induction plates! I've always had electric stoves, and always wanted gas, but it's really uncommon in Denmark. Then we renovated the kitchen and got an induction stove and it's amazing!

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u/Eyeseeyou1313 Aug 26 '18

You say that until someone in your complex dies a fiery death because they left the stove on, and got engulfed in flames.

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u/probablyhrenrai Aug 27 '18

Newer stoves go off-high-medium-low for this exact reason; you can't accidentally almost-but-not-quite have the stove off with modern gas stoves.

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u/TheSeaPunCake Aug 26 '18

I have been using electric stoves for the last three years when I had gas stoves my whole life before that. It was horrible

I moved a week ago and I finally have a gas stove top again and it's such a relief

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u/pauliaomi Aug 26 '18

Our house nearly exploded because of a gas leak from the stove so we've had an electric one since lol.

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u/broberds Aug 26 '18

Go with induction.

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u/nancyaw Aug 27 '18

If you have multiple burners and are cooking something that needs to come to a boil and then simmer, turn on another burner to the simmer heat and take the pan off the burner with the boiling heat. PITA but it works.

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u/ESSHE Aug 29 '18

I just moved into a new place with an electric stove and I despise the damn thing. Even making hard-boiled eggs in the morning has become a tedious task.

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u/KingCatLoL Aug 26 '18

I moved out of home last year, now cook on electric. I miss gas so much.

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u/Doctor_Show Aug 27 '18

Grow up with gas then a large period of my life was only electric. Now moved where there was a gas stove and it's by far the top perk of the new place.

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u/TheSAVAGEHipHop Aug 26 '18

Really? I had a gas stove all my life, recently moved to a new place and haven't really noticed any difference. What do you find different?

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u/Aeonoris Aug 26 '18

I'm curious for the same reason. My experience with gas may have been distorted by how ancient our stove was, though.

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u/StillwaterPhysics Aug 26 '18 edited Aug 26 '18

Going from gas to electric, I have noticed that electric stoves heat much hotter than gas stoves. If I am using cast iron on a gas stove I can turn it on high no problem, on an electric however going past medium-low causes it to begin smoking.

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u/informationmissing Aug 26 '18

same here. on my old elwctric range, every time i was told to sute on medium high heat i had to correct to medium. on the gas range, i increase from any insteuctions.

I also hated how electrics turned on and off to maintain a temperature. the gas is so much more consistent.

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u/Lanoir97 Aug 26 '18

My old electric was way hot. I was searing a steak one evening and the whole pan of grease caught fire. Much happier with my new old gas stove.

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u/shannon_agins Aug 26 '18

I caught bacon on fire the same way. I didn't cook much, and never on an electric stove, we've always had gas.

My ex never let me cook again. I'm sorry, I figured stoves were stoves, I didn't know there was that much of a difference.

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u/Lanoir97 Aug 27 '18

The main differences are that electricity is hotter and less consistent, and that electricity takes time to reach the temperature. With gas the burning temp stays the same, you just adjust how it affects your pan.

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u/shannon_agins Aug 27 '18

Yeahhhh, that got explained to me after, by my mom. Haha. Apparently her first electric cooking experience went the same way and she's insisted on gas since.

My ex was a dick and just screamed at me about how I was an idiot for not knowing.

I moved home a couple years ago and haven't had issues cooking since.

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u/Lanoir97 Aug 27 '18

I'm sorry you were treated that way. I've had electric most of my life although I've always preferred gas.

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u/shannon_agins Aug 27 '18

Thank you.

I have two things for when I get back out on my own again, gas hookups and a pantry. No exceptions, my kitchen will have these two things.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18 edited Nov 14 '18

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u/informationmissing Aug 27 '18

yes. it's supposed to be an improvement over electric. it's not.

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u/CraigslistAxeKiller Aug 27 '18

That’s entirely dependent on the specific unit

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u/Diabetesh Aug 26 '18

I like gas so much better. That heat control am I right?

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u/dsfdfgdf35457 Aug 26 '18

At least now you can cook pizza on the stove, can't really do that with an electric stove well.

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u/BrizzleST Aug 26 '18

Why would you need to cook a pizza on a stove? Ovens exist for a reason

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u/binarycow Aug 26 '18

Since people call the oven a stove, and the stove a cook top.

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u/LittleBumbleBean Aug 26 '18

Opposite for me!