July 19Jul 19 Our old electric glass top stove is near death and I'll be glad to see it go. I think we're gonna make the switch to induction instead. I was just wondering if any of you fine people who enjoy cooking at home have an induction range and if so, how long have you had it for and any other thoughts or opinions on them?
July 20Jul 20 14 hours ago, hovertical said:Our old electric glass top stove is near death and I'll be glad to see it go. I think we're gonna make the switch to induction instead. I was just wondering if any of you fine people who enjoy cooking at home have an induction range and if so, how long have you had it for and any other thoughts or opinions on them?Guess it's not helpful, but just bought a house a couple months ago and it has a gas stove instead of electric (or induction). My only experience with electric was in an apartment....it worked ok, but gas seems to work faster.
July 21Jul 21 Author On 7/20/2026 at 5:31 AM, rmc523 said:Guess it's not helpful, but just bought a house a couple months ago and it has a gas stove instead of electric (or induction). My only experience with electric was in an apartment....it worked ok, but gas seems to work faster.We were going to have a split off our gas line installed into our kitchen to convert to gas but we also learned that gas ranges give off a LOT more heat than even the normal electric glasstop ranges so we nixed that idea because it's already hot AF here in the Summer in Arizona. We then saw induction adds barely any heat to the air because it just uses magnetization and the surface of the stovetop remains mostly cool so that's why we pivoted to induction instead of gas.
July 23Jul 23 Unless you're a professional chef, there's no good reason to use gas anymore. They prefer gas. Gas is probably better for BBQing, as far as the taste of the food.I wonder if induction is how tankless water heaters work.
August 5Aug 5 Author so we go the induction range and it's like literal black magic. you can boil water on it in like 20-30 seconds it's the wildest thing i've ever seen. the other bizarre thing is that when you're done cooking you can touch the surface within a minute or so and it won't burn your hand. there's no actual heating element so it's just the heat energy from the pan you were using that warmed the surface. anywaythey're pretty sick
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