[throwaway2990]

If you’re talking about roti flatbread. It’s always cooked on a flat surface so gas/electric has 0 influence on it.

[ramraj07]

Roti Indian style is finished off on top of a direct flame. Pretty impossible to fully emulate it without gas.

[throwaway2990]

Never seen it finished off on an open flame in Singapore or Malaysia. No one does that. Roti prata is one of my favourite late night snacks. Atleast once a week I go down at 1am to buy it.

If we talk about say poppadoms. Doing that without an open flame produces… it produces something…

[ramraj07]

More people than the population of the US likely eat rotis prepared that way. Like this: https://youtu.be/lsI08y6jwaQ

All of north India eats rotis made this way as their staple.

[throwaway2990]

Wow so I went down a rabbit hole today. When I traveled around India for around 4 months I never saw this made on gas. I did see it done on an open flame but it was never with gas. But YouTube is filled with tons of videos doing it at home on a gas stove. Which lead me down a rabbit hole of how bad it is to use gas flames for this stuff. That I actually think I will never make poppadoms on the gas stove anymore.

So then I asked my Indian co-workers who said they do sometimes use the gas stove to do some stuff but they avoid it as it’s not healthy. They said never finish things like roti on gas stove but they do things with eggplants (and some other vegetable) and peel them after. They said it’s better to use a fire and it tastes better.