The Difference Between Electric and Gas Users

[sudsmaster]

The following is meant to be humorous and equally inaccurate about both sides of the "gas vs. electric" issue:

1) Electric cooktop users tend to be more neat in the kitchen. Gas users tend to take a more relaxed approach to kitchen hygiene, esp around the burners.

2) Electric cooktop users tend to like "set and forget" types of appliances who rely upon numbers to get the job done. Gas users prefer to fiddle with the gas flow controls until it "feels right".

3) Electric dryer users tend to feel that nature is something to be tamed and controlled and not allowed into the home without shots and sterilization (for the animals, not the users). Gas dryer users tend to be more on the hippy side, "it's natural gas, dude, like almost organic..." and would be perfectly happy using methane generated from huge piles of cow dung.

Got any more?

 

[frigilux]

4) Gas range users tend to be smokers who use a burner to light their cigs.

(I did this all the time when I smoked...)

 

[rp2813]

5) Gas range users tend to singe their hair when lighting cigarettes on the stove.

That one is based on multiple incidents next door as a kid. One cocktail and the neighbor lady was looped. But she was the life of any party!

 

[selectomatic]

I'm not sure just how inaccurate all of these things are

Yaay electric appliances, taming nature, cooking-by-numbers, and neat work areas!

-kevin

 

[neptunebob]

Electric range users keep their kitchens cleaner - one reason being that with no combustion process, there is no greasy film on the walls.

Gas users know (or had their kids tell them from environmental science class): It is much better for our energy future and for the enviroment to burn gas directly and not in a power station where maybe, at best, 30-40% of the head goes up the chimney.

 

[rocketeer500]

8) Electric range users like their enviroments digitally controlled. These users are typically computer programers or accountants.

9) Gas range users are just happy the darn thing ignites.

 

[toggleswitch]

~Electric range users like their environments digitally controlled.

*YAY* to a good digital!

10) Gas cooking is more natural; fung-shui approved.
Add a mirror behind your stove to-

a- facilitate cleaning if glass surface.
b- visually double the cooking surfaces, again all in good fung-shui.

AND as an added bonus, it's unvented and pollutes the indoors air better than any other source of indoor air pollution [except a baby in a diaper] can*.

*Well except for a generator and an indoor kerosene heater which are TOTALLY bad-news!

 

[toggleswitch]

Sing it girls: It's getting hot in here, so take off all

11) Gas cooking is great for MEN who want to experience post-menopausal hot-flashes.

70% of the top burners' output goes into the AIR not the food. The corollary is therefore, that a gas top-burner is only 30% efficient.

 

[toggleswitch]

11) the new generation of electric cookers allows you to have a smooth black top, or a smooth white top.

 

[toggleswitch]

Personally I think it works best when visible.

..and if you pay enough the element can be hidden.

 

[sudsmaster]

12) Gas cooktop users like the aural experience of hearing gas whooshing through the burner jets. The only aural experience electric cooktop users might get would be that sizzling sound of the sweat on their hands boiling off just before they pull away from the dark yet quite toasty electric burner element.

 

[washabear]

13) Electric range users have to lift the pan off the element to get heat reduction because the coils do not cool down very quickly.

14) Electric range users are electric range users because that is usually the only kind available in their homes.

00) One can light a cigarette on a glowing electric coil if one is careful, but I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[toggleswitch]

~Electric range users are electric range users because that is usually the only kind available in their homes.

Maybe in some cases.

a) There is always propane.
b) Many many many of those who have gas service cook electrically.

Electric is faster, cleaner, safer, cooler. No smell. No explosions.

Gas is visual and cheaper and easier. (Cheap and easy loses its appleal after a certain mumber of years, trust me I know!) So does the necessity to paint your house every three to five years due to schmootz output.

I have both. There are benefits and drawbacks to EVERYTHING in life. It's just a matter of choosing what means more to you!

 

[maytagbear]

15

Some electric range users may be in "rental hell," and use whatever the landlord provides. Even if it's clapped out and has an increasingly unreliable themostat.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[maytagbear]

15-A

"Blue" versus "Red."

Need I elaborate much further?

L/Mb

 

[DADoES]

Hahahahaaa.

 

[toggleswitch]

Now now now, no need to get into the political "colors" of the states......


(ducks and runs!)

 

[toggleswitch]

oooh now THAT one is really a flamer!

Still, despite it all, nothing says "home" (to me) like a 50's match-lit gas range that is built like a brick sh@t-house!
Add some stew on top and a bread in the oven on a cold winter's day and BRAVISSIMO!
Seeing those flames just takes all the chill away.......

 

[abcomatic]

How about using coal?

I have a 1989 Whirlpool electric stove, wonderful machine. I also have a 1926 Copper Clad cookstove and I burn coal in it? Where does that put me then? It's great to go outside in the winter and look at the coal smoke pouring out of the chimney; reminds me of the opening picture of the Munsters when you see all kinds of smoke coming out of the chimney. Yes, I do use the timer a great deal on the electric and do cook by time a great deal. I am a retired English teacher and am not really too concerned if the kitchen is spotless. Have a great thyme cooking for Thanksgiving. The pies, pumpkin and apple, are done here and so is the bread that is ready to go tomorrow for chestnut stuffing. Happy Thanksgiving. Gary