On cookers do you prefer gas hobs or electric hobs? What are your reasons?

I think I prefer a gas hob but an electric oven. I can clearly see when a gas hob is going to be hot and, if I see something about to boil over I can turn off the gas hob and it will stop straightaway but the electric hob will stay hot so there is not the same level of control. However, I like the fact that an electric oven seems to take more time to cool down because I can switch it off before the food is cooked, knowing it will carry on in the stored heat... saving fuel.

Well, definitely i prefer gas hobs as it electrifies the cooking jobs..I hardly use electrical appliances except Mixer grinder at my kitchen .

Hello I prefer a gas hob as it is quicker to heat and cook the food and you have instant heat control if something is going to boil over rather than waiting for an electric one to lose some of it's heat. Even if electric is cheaper, if you compare the cost of your ten minutes on a electric hob to the three minutes on the gas, they probably work out to be the same cost! I've always used a gas hob and I think it's just what you get used to and we all have our preferences for using them.

Hi Andrew, I have always grown up in a household that uses gas, so I am much more au fait with gas cookers than electricity, to me I feel happier to use them. When I used to live with my ex we had an electric one and I hated it! I could never get it to cook food properly and found the settings a nightmare, I gave up, I am not a cook so my ex did all the cooking fortunately. I guess it's what you get used to or what you have grown up with. But if I ever got my own place I would insist on gas every time. I know electric is much cleaner but you always know when gas is on, you can smell it and see it, you can't see electricity and a few times I have burnt myself not realizing the hob was on.

I think you meant cooks ( and not cookers) heehee, Being the man of the house ( I don't trust my wife with pots and laddles) I prefer using gas hobs, it's like I can see the heat coming out of the flames and I can properly see if it's too hot or not.

Hi Andrew, cheap electric! It's so expensive out here now I'm pretty tempted to cook eggs on the car bonnet instead. Anyway as there' no point wishing for what we can't have, which is a gas supply, I will have to say electric for my hobs but would actually choose electric every time for an oven. My electic hob does provide instant heat and is very easy to control but I cannot remember the English name for what those types of hob rings are called with red spirals underneath a flat surface, sorry. The older style thick black raised rings were terrible but did have one advantage, you could carry on cooking during a power cut as they took so long to cool down.

I like the gas more. I think you can control the temperature better with it. I mean the electric seems to take a while to cool down when it gets hot, then you turn it down to simmer and it takes a bit of time to do that. I also think gas is safer with the kids touching it because the gas burner goes off and that's that pretty much though the metal can still be hot to touch. The electric takes much longer to cool off. Now I say that because I have had gas in the past but that was a long time ago. Maybe the new electric are better with more features to prevent that, I just don't know the answer to that.

We use gas hobs and I must admit that it always scares me everytime I use it. You would never know if it has leaked or would explode. There had been a lot of reports of explosions because of gas hobs and even in a single click of a lighting switch, your kitchen may explode if the gas had escaped. Having electric hobs though is very practical and more safe even if you can't use them when there's power failure. But I would still prefer using electric hobs for safety reasons.

I'm not good at cooking much. But I think every kind has special things are difference even opposite each other. My kitchen has both kind. But my grandmother usually use electric hobs because electric is cheaper than gas. At the time that gas always raise, the best way is use electric.

I have used gas cookers most of my life but since retiring, I have electric.

GAS cooking is much easier. The gas is quickly and easily controlled. The heat can be turned up or down, and it is immediate. Simmering can be obtained with no hassle, whereas electric takes forever to get the setting right.

On the other hand, I now have electric with a ceramic glass top. Great! It is so clean and sparkly. It is a classic piece of furniture in the kitchen. I can put up with the little hassles of adjusting the heat for the beauty of the stove.