Gas cooker or electric which do you prefer

I had never had the opportunity to use a gas cooker until we moved from our last home and our all-electric range cooker stayed with the old house. At our new home an all gas cooker had been included. It was old and shabby but I didn't want to rush into buying a new cooker and looked forward to getting a shiny new one. However, within a few weeks of using it I found that I much preferred it! We got a new gas cooker eventually and have been using gas for 15 years now. Incidentally, I find that a gas oven is easier to clean. I think it is because of the moisture, which doesn't exist in an electric oven. I find gas is great for baking, for very slow roasting or simmering and is so easy to control.?

I vividly remember my mother getting the palm of her hand stuck on a hot plate - we'd just moved and she hadn't got used to the electric oven. It's been a gas hob for me ever since.

Deffo gas hob as well as oven - I've burnt my hand on a recently-switched-off electric plate once too often!

Love my induction job,it’s so easy to keep clean & I never have to worry about leaving it switched on because it turns its self off if there is no saucepan on it.

Meant rehomed. Not revoked !

Had a range cooker for years with gas hob and electric oven.Never thought I would want anything else but the kitchen company when we moved and had a new one suggested an induction hob.I was very resistant.DH keener.I was persuaded.It's so easy to clean.So much safer.Still thrilled with it after a few years.Still got an electric oven.When DMIL got older she nearly had a bad fire when she left a tea towel near the gas hob.Her dog -a failed guide dog she'd revoked alerted her thankfully.

Had gas hob and electric fan wall oven. Loved them.

Moved. Now have LPG range - OK but miss the electric fan oven. No mains gas where we are in Cornwall.

Gas Hob and Gas Oven for me - EVERYTIME!

I DO have a Halogen Oven which does the most amazing Roast Chicken - comes out as if it's been done on a Rotisserie.

I have used all electric for over 30 years. I don't like using gas hobs at all now. I always feel anxious I have left the gas on when I use my daughters hob!

Always had gas but changed to electric oven and induction hob 14 years ago, love it, so easy to use and keep clean and the only downside, I had to buy a new set of pans for the hob as my old ones were copper bottomed. Agree with SueDonim better, faster and cleaner.

I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I bought my induction hob 10 years ago!

Induction all the way. Such a treat to cook on, easy to clean and heats stuff up in super quick time. I love mine along with my electric ovens.

I have an electric fan oven with a ceramic hob - they came with the house. However, I will always hanker after my old gas oven with eye level grill which I felt was more practical.

Power cuts are a good point, and an argument against all electric heating

I wonder if gas cookers will be phased out eventually, for environmental reasons, as they plan to do for gas boilers.

I was thinking this. But while I have gas heating still the gas hob can stay.

I too like my eye level electric oven. Will never go back to the all in one style with the oven down low

Gas defo, i can see the flame and adjust accordingly. Also very useful in a power cut. I have a whistling kettle for those times, plus you can put the oven on and get some heat in the kitchen if it's cold and your heating doesn't work due to power cut.

I love my induction hob because it is as responsive as gas but safer and easier to wipe clean. Electric oven also as it cooks so evenly.

My Gas Oven died and whilst waiting for repairs (which never happened so had to get a New one) I bought a little Electric Mini Oven with Hob, I now find I love it and using it more than my New Gas Oven

Riggie I'm all electric with an induction hob and I have a two burner camping stove in caase of a power cut. Can't risk being without a cup of tea. Which reminds me....

No choice here in the depths of the rural Welsh Marches - all electric freestanding cooker. Our electricity supply would not stretch to a split hob and oven. I remember having a gas hob in the dim & distant past when I was a student and it was brilliant and past electric hobs were pretty pathetic in comparison but we now have an induction hob & it's fantastic, I wouldn't swap.

Im used to a gas hob and electric oven but we're about to do a kitchen refurb and are considering an induction hob.
The only wobble has been the warnings of possible power cuts during the recent storms - they didnt happen, but it made me think that if we do ever have a powercut we cant even make a cuppa if we go "all electric".

I have a gas hob, self cleaning electric oven. I know if I want to change my kitchen I will have to go with an electric hob as gas hobs are being phased out in the next 5 years. Sure I will cope.

I love my induction hob. I have also a halogen oven, a micowave and an InstantPot. Love them all - induction is as controllable as gas, cheaper, and very easy to keep clean. Having the halogen oven means that I rarely use the cooker oven and I use the InstantPot most frequently of all. The microwave isn't used to cook meals but is useful in other ways. E.g. my porridge every morning.

PS I am particularly hopeless with traditional electric hobs, I get bored waiting for them to get going then suddenly everything boils over ! I have absolute admiration for anyone who cooks on them !

Induction hob, electric oven every time ! I’m so thrilled with my induction hob I’m replacing a gas hob in other abode! Cooking on an induction hob gives you the flexibility of gas, it is much much safer, and you don’t get the grimy resin to clean off the walls! My elderly mother got one first and I’m so relieved, I’d hate her cooking on gas at her age.