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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Definitely gas. To heat up a gas stove: Turn it on. To heat up an electric stove: turn it on, and wait. To heat up an OLD electric stove: turn it on, wait, wait some more, wait some more, turn it off, turn on the other burner, wait some more, wait some more.
To cool down the cooktop of a gas stove: turn it off. To cool down the cooktop of an electric stove: turn it off, wait, wait some more, wait some more, wait some more.
If you have all 4 burners on an electric stove going at the same time and need to take the pan off one of them because the dish you're cooking is finished and you don't want to burn it, there's no place to put it. If you have the same situation on a gas stove, just turn that burner off.
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I agree with all of this, except maybe heat up time. Of course, it take a minute to heat. But when I had electric a few years back I warped a cast iron pan because the electric heated it too quickly.
But I defintely agree that shutting gas off is so much better than waiting for electric to cool.
I also found the glass tops of electric very hard to clean. I erased the painted lines on mine by mistake when I was trying to get it clean.