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I'm here in Europe where I've never ever seen anyone using a gas stove, ever. Not even the old timey stove in my grandparents' tiny summer home. I'm almost 40 years old. Seriously, gas stoves are ancient and not efficient.
Europe, I've seen induction only in airbnbs, everyone has gas at home
Northern Europe here, everyone has either induction or electric glass/ceramic.
I have induction, live in an apartment, not an Airbnb. You live in eastern Europe by any chance? Maybe less far along technology wise?
I do, yes. But people are renovating and modernizing their homes and I don't know anyone who chose induction - they are available here, and so is electricity.
Habit maybe? Just like Americans seem to be stuck in the past because of fear of progress.
I'm in Europe too, and I've seen a lot of them, and I think they are still standard in restaurants. I've owned gas stoves in 2 of my apartments.
In restaurants seems like it's like some sort of tradition, even though it's much less efficient than induction.
Gas is much faster to heat and cool. Also it's harder to flambe with electricity.
I don't think gas is faster to heat and cool than induction...
Flambeing should be possible with just using something else to ignite, right? Shouldn't be that hard.
Depends alot where you are living. As a kid I never saw anyone using gas. But later, especially living in a bigger city gas stoves are really common.
Which part of Europe? I'm living in the biggest city in my region.