Cooking Corner

[Fartsniffage]

Nope. If you did then it would be useless. The point of the smell is to detect leaking gas, not gas burning as it should.

Either way I'd rather deal with an electrical fire than a chemical explosion. If for no other reason than because I already have so many electrical appliances in my home that can start a fire that adding another won't change much.

Look at it this way, professional kitchen use gas, because it's just better for cooking.

[Purpelia]

Either way I'd rather deal with an electrical fire than a chemical explosion. If for no other reason than because I already have so many electrical appliances in my home that can start a fire that adding another won't change much.

Look at it this way, professional kitchen use gas, because it's just better for cooking.

In the end it boils down to what ever infrastructure you have. If you have as pipes you get gas, if you have proper electricity you get electric.

[Fartsniffage]

Look at it this way, professional kitchen use gas, because it's just better for cooking.

In the end it boils down to what ever infrastructure you have. If you have as pipes you get gas, if you have proper electricity you get electric.

....Not really.

[Purpelia]

In the end it boils down to what ever infrastructure you have. If you have as pipes you get gas, if you have proper electricity you get electric.

....Not really.

Well where I am from there are no gas pipes bringing the thing to your house. So yes, really.

[USS Monitor]

....Not really.

Well where I am from there are no gas pipes bringing the thing to your house. So yes, really.

My apartment in Shijiazhuang didn't have gas pipes, but I still had a gas stove. The gas came from a tank.

[Bombadil]

I have an induction cooker, which is really annoying if you forget to buy the right pan.

Well where I am from there are no gas pipes bringing the thing to your house. So yes, really.

My apartment in Shijiazhuang didn't have gas pipes, but I still had a gas stove. The gas came from a tank.

..and adding money for electricity.. and having no control over heating..

[Purpelia]

Well where I am from there are no gas pipes bringing the thing to your house. So yes, really.

My apartment in Shijiazhuang didn't have gas pipes, but I still had a gas stove. The gas came from a tank.

Sure, but if your choice is between buying, handling and generally screwing around with gas tanks when you can just use an electrical stove is just an unhealthy amount of bother. And this is from someone that commutes on foot for fun.

[Fartsniffage]

....Not really.

Well where I am from there are no gas pipes bringing the thing to your house. So yes, really.

That doesn't make it the better option for cooking. It simply makes it the only easy option.

[Bombadil]

My apartment in Shijiazhuang didn't have gas pipes, but I still had a gas stove. The gas came from a tank.

Sure, but if your choice is between buying, handling and generally screwing around with gas tanks when you can just use an electrical stove is just an unhealthy amount of bother. And this is from someone that commutes on foot for fun.

Typically the cheaper apartments in China came equipped that way, and the kitchens were fucking tiny so you could buy an electric kind of stove but then you'd probably have to balance it above the gas rings.

Same as the bathrooms, my first apartment in Beijing I could shit, shower and shave all at the same time.

[Katganistan]

They also add a sulfurous smell to it here, so if there is a leak, you KNOW it. You're to leave the house -- leaving the door open -- and call from outside to avoid a spark, so that they can cut the gas and fix the leak.

How does that not make your food smell bad?

Because the smell only comes through if the gas isn't burning? And the gas isn't directly on the food, generally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas#Added_odor

Either way I'd rather deal with an electrical fire than a chemical explosion. If for no other reason than because I already have so many electrical appliances in my home that can start a fire that adding another won't change much.

Look at it this way, professional kitchen use gas, because it's just better for cooking.

Yup. "Flame-broiled" is a thing for a reason.

Look at it this way, professional kitchen use gas, because it's just better for cooking.

In the end it boils down to what ever infrastructure you have. If you have as pipes you get gas, if you have proper electricity you get electric.

We don't have gas lighting, you know. We do have proper electricity.

And restaurants do use gas appliances.

I have an induction cooker, which is really annoying if you forget to buy the right pan.

It's magnetism, right? So the wrong pan means it won't cook-- are there cases where the wrong pan can be dangerous, too? Good because you don't get a hot stovetop and you can touch it.

[Immoren]

If magnet sticks to your pan/pot it's good for induction top.

I don't think there should be any danger with wrong pans.

Only questionable thing about induction tops is that they work at kilo/megahertz range, and some fear health side of these.

[Eclius]

....Not really.

Well where I am from there are no gas pipes bringing the thing to your house. So yes, really.

Same for me, both in Toronto and in where my grandparents live in China. To be honest, it's feels safer to use the electric ones. And on top of all that, my family uses a small gas stove for hot pot, tbh, it's very inconvenient to use considering you have to buy those small gas cans once in a while.

[Purpelia]

We don't have gas lighting, you know. We do have proper electricity.

There are actually many places on Earth even in the rich countries where people don't have three-phase electric power and therefore they can't plug in a stove or water heater. And that's the "proper" electricity I was talking about.

[Fartsniffage]

We don't have gas lighting, you know. We do have proper electricity.

There are actually many places on Earth even in the rich countries where people don't have three-phase electric power and therefore they can't plug in a stove or water heater.

You need 3 phase power to power a stove? And there was me thinking that 3 phase power was only needed for industrial applications....

[Purpelia]

There are actually many places on Earth even in the rich countries where people don't have three-phase electric power and therefore they can't plug in a stove or water heater.

You need 3 phase power to power a stove? And there was me thinking that 3 phase power was only needed for industrial applications....

As far as I understand yes. At least the proper home sized ones. I am not sure about the mini things with one hotplate.

[Fartsniffage]

You need 3 phase power to power a stove? And there was me thinking that 3 phase power was only needed for industrial applications....

As far as I understand yes. At least the proper home sized ones. I am not sure about the mini things with one burner.

Houses receive single phase power. Only factories and server farms get 3 phase power. And it's expensive.

It's all about AC and making it more like DC for high power applications. Houses do not need that much power.

[Purpelia]

Houses receive single phase power. Only factories and server farms get 3 phase power.

It's all about AC and making it more like DC for high power applications. Houses do not need that much power.

Unless you are using an electric stove or water heater. Those are easily the largest loads you have in your home. Where I am from homes do indeed receive 3 phases.

[Fartsniffage]

Houses receive single phase power. Only factories and server farms get 3 phase power.

It's all about AC and making it more like DC for high power applications. Houses do not need that much power.

Unless you are using an electric stove or water heater. Those are easily the largest loads you have in your home. Where I am from homes do indeed receive 3 phases.

Where is that? Honestly curious....

[Purpelia]

Unless you are using an electric stove or water heater. Those are easily the largest loads you have in your home. Where I am from homes do indeed receive 3 phases.

Where is that? Honestly curious....

How about I not dox my self? I have said enough controversial stuff on this forum, especially in character that this would be a very stupid idea.

[Immoren]

In Finland we receive 3-phase power to houses and if nothing else, electric stove top/ovens and electric sauna stoves are three phases.

In Finland you can't even get a single phase connection, if household alreadt didn't have one. 1-phase contracts are sold solely as legacy contracts.

[Purpelia]

In Finland we receive 3-phase power to houses and if nothing else, electric stove top/ovens and electric sauna stoves are three phases.

In Finland you can't even get a single phase connection, if household alreadt didn't have one. 1-phase contracts are sold solely as legacy contracts.

Same story here basically. Minus the saunas. And I suspect the later is to our determent.

[Pope Joan]

I prefer wood fires saunas anyway.

One time we got locked into an electrical sauna. The power was down so it was not getting hotter but the stones were still much too hot to touch. The "automatic" door of course failed to open.

I imagine St Catherine's police discovering us later, shrunken dessicated mummies

To veer back toward the topic: One can cook in the sauna, steak, sausage, our friends toasted bread sticks there. "Heat is heat" as this author says: http://www.amythielen.com/steak-in-the-sauna/

[Dixadoing]

Me, I start with 5 out of 10. It can always be adjusted upward or downward, depending on how the meal is cooking.
Now: gas burners, or electric?

Gas burner, all the way! Faster, easier to control. Definitely the way to go. #ihavegas

[Pope Joan]

Me, I start with 5 out of 10. It can always be adjusted upward or downward, depending on how the meal is cooking.
Now: gas burners, or electric?

Gas burner, all the way! Faster, easier to control. Definitely the way to go. #ihavegas

Yeah, you can't beat real flame. Down here most people do not have gas service in their homes, so then they do a lot of cooking on charcoal and propane BBQ outfits. it's to make up for that flame effect they have been missing

[Katganistan]

We don't have gas lighting, you know. We do have proper electricity.

There are actually many places on Earth even in the rich countries where people don't have three-phase electric power and therefore they can't plug in a stove or water heater. And that's the "proper" electricity I was talking about.

Well, both stove and water heaters here are powered by gas.