willir29

The new electric stovetop I tried were with glass/ceramic/whatever on top, and they didn't feel too slow. I didn't have that at home, so I don't have a lot of experience with it, but I got an impression that it was quite usable. The info about electric being faster to boil came from YouTube videos, so I could be mistaken. I assume they are mostly talking about medium to small pots, since on them gas are far less efficient. Here is one vid: https://youtu.be/CcAJ3_-Hou8 (timestamp: 1:05 ). P.S. I also googled some videos where gas got water boiling faster than electric, though they used a large pot. Would like to see that... (read more)

I would agree with many commenters here about induction stovetops.

I used to have one, living in Russia, and now I have a gas one in the US (wasn't much choice here TBH). The induction was clearly superior. It cooked faster, had a timer, and was much easier to clean.

I should add that I had the cheapest induction one we could find back then.

However, banning gas stoves, and even talking about banning them, is clearly stupid now. We shouldn't ban stuff willy-nilly. We should have an extremely high bar to ban anything, not like "Hey somewhat had a paper that probably says something is somewhat dangerous".

I guess eventually, gas stoves would need to... (read more)