It also has more cooking power overall. A restaurant may have 8 stove burnsers, four ovens, multiple steam tables, etc going. One gas line can serve them all no problem. The amount of electricity you’d need to do the same would be ridiculous. Petro energy density is hard to beat, especially because it cheats: its oxidizing agent is just sitting around for free everywhere.
The gas being faster than electric thing is not relevant with induction. Induction DESTROYS gas for responsiveness, it’s literally digital and nearly direct heat. There’s no competition and it isn’t even close. The only thing more direct would be if you ran electricity directly through the pan and it started glowing.
If you want to compare gas vs induction, talk about cooking technique and the ability to lift, tip, and move around the pan, and the needed sweet spot for induction being teeny tiny and safety first so if it detects the cookware leaving the sweet spot, it turns off.
The two cooktops are extremely different. I hope nobody in here is taking this seriously other than maybe the corruption of the natural gas companies.
There was a study recently that found breathing in burning oil and food smoke is nearly as bad as smoking cigarettes. Which, if you stop to think about it, isn’t surprising at all because you’re just breathing in carcinogens (burnt stuff and particulates are bad for you). So cooking at higher heats at all just in general isn’t great.
Like, yeah, the technology is SUPER efficient and effective, and yeah it’s really really cool… But, until the existing professional/advanced cooking techniques are surpassed, business is business, and chefs are going to use whatever means necessary to competitively put out the best possible product with the least amount of struggle.
If they can do on on electric, great.
If they can do that on gas, great.
If they can do that on induction, that will be a VERY popular technique.
Selling induction as an end-all is silly. Nothing is perfect, and everything has drawbacks. Unfortunately, induction is still currently limited to not moving the pan and some other stuff. It’s so good at that, I’m pretty sure boiling water and delicate thermostat control is still best you can get on nice ranges, but it isn’t without drawbacks and hard limits, many of which are culinary. Which is a tragic limitation that’s just waiting to be overcome…
Edit: iirc, somewhere in this post or one like it was somebody wishing for a range with multiple heat types and somebody immediately put that down. I felt it was really silly and so absolutist, as many people around here seem to be, this near election time.
Quick no one tell them almost every restaurant in existence uses gas…
gas does have some possible toxic effects if not properly vented.
BUT it heats 10 times faster and allows almost instantaneous control of the heat…( the reasons kitchens use it)
It also has more cooking power overall. A restaurant may have 8 stove burnsers, four ovens, multiple steam tables, etc going. One gas line can serve them all no problem. The amount of electricity you’d need to do the same would be ridiculous. Petro energy density is hard to beat, especially because it cheats: its oxidizing agent is just sitting around for free everywhere.
The gas being faster than electric thing is not relevant with induction. Induction DESTROYS gas for responsiveness, it’s literally digital and nearly direct heat. There’s no competition and it isn’t even close. The only thing more direct would be if you ran electricity directly through the pan and it started glowing.
If you want to compare gas vs induction, talk about cooking technique and the ability to lift, tip, and move around the pan, and the needed sweet spot for induction being teeny tiny and safety first so if it detects the cookware leaving the sweet spot, it turns off.
The two cooktops are extremely different. I hope nobody in here is taking this seriously other than maybe the corruption of the natural gas companies.
There was a study recently that found breathing in burning oil and food smoke is nearly as bad as smoking cigarettes. Which, if you stop to think about it, isn’t surprising at all because you’re just breathing in carcinogens (burnt stuff and particulates are bad for you). So cooking at higher heats at all just in general isn’t great.
True. I can’t stand the fact that my induction stove wants to turn off every time I pick up the pan to flip.
Like, yeah, the technology is SUPER efficient and effective, and yeah it’s really really cool… But, until the existing professional/advanced cooking techniques are surpassed, business is business, and chefs are going to use whatever means necessary to competitively put out the best possible product with the least amount of struggle.
If they can do on on electric, great.
If they can do that on gas, great.
If they can do that on induction, that will be a VERY popular technique.
Selling induction as an end-all is silly. Nothing is perfect, and everything has drawbacks. Unfortunately, induction is still currently limited to not moving the pan and some other stuff. It’s so good at that, I’m pretty sure boiling water and delicate thermostat control is still best you can get on nice ranges, but it isn’t without drawbacks and hard limits, many of which are culinary. Which is a tragic limitation that’s just waiting to be overcome…
Edit: iirc, somewhere in this post or one like it was somebody wishing for a range with multiple heat types and somebody immediately put that down. I felt it was really silly and so absolutist, as many people around here seem to be, this near election time.
idk i’ve been inside a few restaurant and other large-scale kitchens (canteens etc) and the stoves were always resistance or induction heating
I worked HVAC/r. Was in hundreds of kitchens on on East Coast of the US. I never saw anything but gas
Same.
ah well the US is a whole different beast, i’m in switzerland. gas basically isn’t a thing here except for houses with very old heaters
Sorta kinda figured that would be the case
Induction is faster and more responsive than gas.
Depends on the burner. Those 300k btu wok burners would like a word.