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by ptkd 1586 days ago
have you ever used an induction stove? They are like an order of magnitude better. Easier to clean, much faster to heat stuff
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That comes with an order of magnitude higher price to boot and whether these improvements are worth it is going to be subjective. For you, you must like your stove, but for me, the improvements are so slight. It takes me a few mins with a wet paper towel to wipe off grease from the stove after using it, I don't think induction would be that much faster since it would only mean I save the 5 seconds it takes to remove the grates over the burners presumably, since I still have to wipe up anyhow. I never felt like gas was too slow to heat either; the kitchen is full of opportunities for parallelizing tasks while one thing is heating anyway. To me these things just aren't worth the cost to buy a new stove and get rid of my old one that does the job today.
The UX of ours is mildly annoying - ON, minus to start at mid-temp, plus plus plus plus to get to 7, all with no feedback aside from the beep.

I imagine there are better ones around with knobs or similar.