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Post by bula on Oct 30, 2021 21:29:04 GMT -5
A kitchen overhaul due here soon. Wife asked as to difficulty to switch to gas, propane in our case. Our furnace is propane and have two tanks. One as back-up for the whole house generator. So, gas to plumb up from basement. Furnace is close to directly under where stove is, so.. We have only had electric in our homes, but have gas at camp, so some small experience with. A good idea ? or nope nope nope. Advice and opinions asked for.
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bamagreg
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Post by bamagreg on Oct 30, 2021 21:51:05 GMT -5
We had always had electric stove/oven until we moved to our current home 5 years ago. I do most of the cooking in our house and I would never go back to electric.
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Odin
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Post by Odin on Oct 30, 2021 22:05:04 GMT -5
As one who has spent more than a little time I'm the kitchen (played chef for a dozen years in a previous life), I'd choose gas every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Instant heat control and precise variability. Electric is horribly laggy and finding the right amount of heat always feels hunt-and-peck.
The one really nice thing about the new glass top ranges is the super easy clean-up.
And one caveat with gas is supply capacity. While working with a buddy of mine to remodel his newly bought home, the pipe fitter came over to talk about plumbing the kitchen for gas. He took one look at the supply line and said, "that's gonna need to be bigger."
Another is proper venting.
Just some thoughts...
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jeffh
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Post by jeffh on Oct 30, 2021 22:07:12 GMT -5
My wife deserved a new kitchen long before she got it, but she got it finally. She picked an electric double wall oven and a gas cook-top.
We heat primarily with propane and the cook-top was easy, as it was where the old gas range was. The electric ovens were even easier, because it's easier to keep wires from "leaking."
According to my wife, gas is the only way to go for the cook-top, period, but electric ovens are "more consistent." Having worked in process heating for ten years (BIG gas and electric), I can't argue the point for that application. She knows what she's talking about because her pie crusts cannot be beat.
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 30, 2021 22:08:08 GMT -5
A kitchen overhaul due here soon. Wife asked as to difficulty to switch to gas, propane in our case. Our furnace is propane and have two tanks. One as back-up for the whole house generator. So, gas to plumb up from basement. Furnace is close to directly under where stove is, so.. We have only had electric in our homes, but have gas at camp, so some small experience with. A good idea ? or nope nope nope. Advice and opinions asked for. ***** Gas is civilized, much better control of heat, and it is visual. If you have your own gas, it continues when the grid goes down. Big difference between gas & electric stove, gas heats more pot types uniformly. Unless the bottom of a pot or pan is FLAT, contact on electric range is spotty. Nuff said. David Bradshaw
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Post by mart on Oct 30, 2021 23:23:22 GMT -5
We went natural gas on our range and oven about 14 years ago. Had a little difficulty convincing my wife to make the switch but she’d never go back to electric again. This first time she used the pressure canner on the gas range she was sold. Every electric stove top we have had gas made it so we always had to baby sit the canner. With the gas once it settles in at the sweet spot we can pretty much ignore it until the timer goes off.
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Post by squawberryman on Oct 31, 2021 4:43:27 GMT -5
Propane has more energy than natural gas. Propane stove is the diggity. What everyone else said above is truth. The new glass cooktops that you can touch and not get burned blah, blah, blah.
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edk
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Post by edk on Oct 31, 2021 6:58:42 GMT -5
Propane gas cooktop and double electric wall oven here. With the cooktop the only gas appliance in the house a handy 20 or 40lb tank gives us many months of service keeping a second in reserve at all times. No gas company/contract needed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 8:16:19 GMT -5
Hank Hill convinced me many years ago. Propane range/oven is great. But I still like to bbq on my Weber kettle. Sorry Hank Unfortunately many new homes are built electric only.
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Post by bula on Oct 31, 2021 8:30:08 GMT -5
So, am seeing gas/propane stove tops with electric oven/air fryer below. Am liking that idea. Some are available at costs I can swallow too. Having to add an exhaust and possibly having to dig back to tank to bump line size may be an issue. We'll see. Thanks guys.
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JM
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Post by JM on Oct 31, 2021 8:57:13 GMT -5
Many homes with an electric range lack a proper hood & ventilation for gas.
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Post by bula on Oct 31, 2021 9:07:51 GMT -5
It would be a shame and an surprise to folks if I blew up the house and it WASN'T from the basement loading bench. So will look into exhaust an if larger line needed, etc..
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jonjon
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Post by jonjon on Nov 2, 2021 9:42:25 GMT -5
Our house has propane for stove,oven,bbq pit,and clothes drier. 110 gal tank lasts about a year.
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Post by squawberryman on Nov 2, 2021 10:17:02 GMT -5
I was blessed to have been given a 1,000 gallon tank by a neighbor before we built our home. One day during construction a gas truck pulled into the yard. Granted I had begun discussion with Thermotane (NEVER us Amerigas) about installing lines and servicing the tank I own but we were at studs at the time. I asked the driver while he was here "Why are you here?" to which he replied "To fill your tank." It's a thousand gallons and propane was 2.75 at the time. I looked him in the eye and told him "Sir you are never, ever, not ever, never authorized to fill this tank unless I specifically, face to face tell you so." Twice since then I've ordered a hundred gallons and the driver has come with intent to give me a three thousand dollar fill job.
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Post by bula on Nov 2, 2021 10:39:43 GMT -5
I'm at the end of everyones, delivery line for everything. Our furnace and whole house generator is propane. We are on automatic fill, anytime in hood, to top off too. Yet we have to call at least once per year, HEY !
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