The choice between the electric cooktop and the gas cooktop may not be settled here but there are clear advantages and disadvantages to each. A lot of the differences that are between them are more of a personal preference than a definite right or wrong. Let's look at some advantages of buying gas cooktops.
Advantages - Gas Cooktops
When you turn the gas on, there is no agonizingly slow wait for the gas to heat up to cooking temperatures. When the gas is on it means an immediate cooking temperature. If you are using natural gas, it is often less than half the cost to cook a meal with gas than it is with an electric cook top. The more modern pilotless gas stoves means no waste of gas, you only turn it on when you use the cook top. Many professional chefs prefer gas.
When you turn the gas on, there is no agonizingly slow wait for the gas to heat up to cooking temperatures. When the gas is on it means an immediate cooking temperature. If you are using natural gas, it is often less than half the cost to cook a meal with gas than it is with an electric cook top. The more modern pilotless gas stoves means no waste of gas, you only turn it on when you use the cook top. Many professional chefs prefer gas.
One other advantage that gas cook tops have over electrical is the ability to have control over the heat distribution in the best of cookware, often made from tinned-copper. The inexpensive cookware made with anodized aluminum, glass or stainless steel has little difference gained between using with the gas cooktop versus the electric cooktop.
Advantages for Electric
Electric cook tops don't discolor the bottom of cookware. The idea of invisible gas that can permeate the home and cause an explosion is also a concern for many proponents of electrical cooktops. In truth, there isn't anything you can do on a gas cooktop that you can't do on an electric one. And the types of electric cooktops are so varied, too. There are the traditional coil elements, halogen bulb or the magnetic induction which all heat rapidly and make for easier clean up than the gas cook tops. Although the magnetic induction electric cooktops require the extra expense of purchasing magnetic cookware to cook with, they present a good safety feature in that the cooking surface never heats up. All the heat takes place in the cookware. This lowers the risk of accidental burns.
Electric cook tops don't discolor the bottom of cookware. The idea of invisible gas that can permeate the home and cause an explosion is also a concern for many proponents of electrical cooktops. In truth, there isn't anything you can do on a gas cooktop that you can't do on an electric one. And the types of electric cooktops are so varied, too. There are the traditional coil elements, halogen bulb or the magnetic induction which all heat rapidly and make for easier clean up than the gas cook tops. Although the magnetic induction electric cooktops require the extra expense of purchasing magnetic cookware to cook with, they present a good safety feature in that the cooking surface never heats up. All the heat takes place in the cookware. This lowers the risk of accidental burns.
Another advantage that the electric cook tops have over gas is the cost. You are much more likely to have the connections available for installing an electric cooktop than you are to have the gas line installed for a gas cooktop. The installation of a gas cooktop would then make it much more expensive than installing the electric cooktop.
Conclusion
Which one you choose of course depends on the budget, the setup already in place. After all, if gas lines are already run in but you prefer electric, it would be an unnecessary expense to insist on electric lines being run in. The same is true in the reverse of that circumstance. It would be best to just go with what is there. If you insist on gas appliances, and the cost for pulling gas lines to your residence would be cost prohibitive, you may want to call a local liquid propane supplier that could set up a large propane tank on your property and install the gas lines directly from that tank.
Which one you choose of course depends on the budget, the setup already in place. After all, if gas lines are already run in but you prefer electric, it would be an unnecessary expense to insist on electric lines being run in. The same is true in the reverse of that circumstance. It would be best to just go with what is there. If you insist on gas appliances, and the cost for pulling gas lines to your residence would be cost prohibitive, you may want to call a local liquid propane supplier that could set up a large propane tank on your property and install the gas lines directly from that tank.
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