• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    Every elective stove I’ve used has sucked for controlling the temperature. I’ll deal with a little air pollution to have my food actually come out how I want it. Maybe induction ones are better but those are expensive.

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      1 month ago

      Yes, induction stoves are the solution. The way I went about it is I bought a secondhand hob for just $110. Works brilliantly, controls just as well as gas. As a bonus, pumping all the energy straight into the cookware makes it heat things up REAL fast.

      Regular electric stove is very inert, making it straight up impossible to do a lot of stuff.

      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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        1 month ago

        Never heard of these limitations. All I know is you can’t prep a tortilla the right way on gas stoves.

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        1 month ago

        Honesty it is, I feel bad for anyone struggling with poor tools but once you really learn to cook, you can turn any source of heat into good cooking.

        I lived for nearly a decade with a rusty old piece of shit from the 80’s, loose coils that only worked when you pressed down on one side, weird temperature controls that I eventually had to override, lots of problems to overcome. Did some of the best cooking of my life on that thing.

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      1 month ago

      I lived for nearly a decade with an old stove with loose coils, did some of my best cooking in my life on that piece of rusted shit.

      Seriously, give me a goddamn heat source and I will turn it into the finest shit you ever ate.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      I think it might simply be a matter of getting used to it. For example, i can cook well enough with an electric (induction) furnace but it’s difficult for me to use a gas stove without burning my food.

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      Either gross incompetence or lack of proper pans is at cause. Electric stoves are perfectly fine.

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          1 month ago

          Try: putting it on the highest setting, Use less water (10+liter is a lot and can happen quickly in big pots), Plug it into 3 phase power Make sure to use the highest power section

          In a lot of cases ceran cooktops have higher power delivery to the pot than gas. Also read the manual for how much power each burner has.