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.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 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 days 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

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