[oceanplexian]

The reason gas is superior is due to heat recovery time. Recovery time is the time it takes to reach temperature after adding food to a pan. Gas is superior to all forms of electric in recovery time. There simply is /more energy/ in a cubic foot of gas compared to what a home electric circuit can deliver in the same time frame. It’s science, plain and simple.

The practical effect is food spends less time steaming, so for example, a stir fry doesn’t come out soggy and unappetizing.

[rootusrootus]

Induction kicks the crap out of gas for energy delivered to pan. It's not even close.

[vel0city]

A gas stove might be able to create more BTUs/min but if half of that heat misses the pan because it's rapidly rising and being vented out of the kitchen it's not really helping me much.

Meanwhile most of the energy from my electric stove actually makes it into my pan instead of out a vent or into my kitchen.

[comte7092]

I have an induction wok, it cost a couple hundred dollars on Amazon, heats up instantly and goes up to very high temps.

I do not have the problem you are describing.

> Gas is superior to all forms of electric in recovery time.

This is really going to be dependent on which stoves we are comparing, along with the type of pan being used.

> There simply is /more energy/ in a cubic foot of gas compared to what a home electric circuit can deliver in the same time frame. It’s science, plain and simple.

Science as I alluded to in my previous comment, would account for waste heat. Which is where a significant amount of the energy of a gas stove goes.

[wkat4242]

A couple hundred dollars is a LOT for many people including myself. Just saying, not everyone has silicon valley salaries.

[comte7092]

Yes… it’s also significantly cheaper than I high end gas stove?

We’re talking about appliances here, OP was comparing a high end gas stove’s output to electric. My point is that my couple hundred dollar unit can replicate many of the things OP was claiming you’d need to buy a $5,000-$10,000 gas stove for (though I am in no way suggesting that these are equivalent in functionality to each other).

[wkat4242]

That's just really a different class altogether. I doubt my gas stove cost more than 200 new :)

But the thing about a cheap gas stove is that it performs as well as a high end one, at least for a one person household like mine. If I'd invest in induction it would all get much more expensive to get the same performance.

[comte7092]

If that is your opinion, I kind of doubt that you would have that much of an issue with an electric stove, at least not the ones that OP was complaining about. An expensive gas range is going to perform significantly differently from a $200 one. At least, if all we are talking about is “heat goes into pan”.

Edit: Look, I don’t mean to come across as though I have an issue with your budget or choices, but you’re derailing a conversation that was in response to someone claiming that electric was inferior specifically in comparison to high end gas stoves. Your $300 range isn’t going to put out the 15-25k Btus that OP was talking about, which was why I made the comparison to a relatively less expensive induction device. I personally use that device for a significant amount of my cooking as I rent a unit that only has an underpowered 2 burned stove.