Every elective stove I've used has sucked for controlling the temperature. I'll deal with a little air pollution to have my food actually come out how I want it. Maybe induction ones are better but those are expensive.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's a skill issue.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Honesty it is, I feel bad for anyone struggling with poor tools but once you really learn to cook, you can turn any source of heat into good cooking.

I lived for nearly a decade with a rusty old piece of shit from the 80's, loose coils that only worked when you pressed down on one side, weird temperature controls that I eventually had to override, lots of problems to overcome. Did some of the best cooking of my life on that thing.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 33 minutes ago

Congratulations, I've cooked on all sorts of things too. Doesn't mean some weren't objectively better than others. I personally don't want to deal with a shitty heat source that I have to fight with to get it to work properly and is slow as shit to actually heat up.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

Bullshit

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, induction stoves are the solution. The way I went about it is I bought a secondhand hob for just $110. Works brilliantly, controls just as well as gas. As a bonus, pumping all the energy straight into the cookware makes it heat things up REAL fast.

Regular electric stove is very inert, making it straight up impossible to do a lot of stuff.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Never heard of these limitations. All I know is you can’t prep a tortilla the right way on gas stoves.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know little of cooking tortillas, but to me the main limiter with gas cooking is that it cuts off at certain gas pressure, not allowing you to use it at very low heating.

Also, it mainly heats in a certain ring and not equally through the whole surface, which might probably be critical for tortillas unless you have a big cast iron pan.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I lived for nearly a decade with an old stove with loose coils, did some of my best cooking in my life on that piece of rusted shit.

Seriously, give me a goddamn heat source and I will turn it into the finest shit you ever ate.