The idea that you can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nonsense. If you are a hardcore wok enthusiast you can actually get an induction wok burner, and induction stoves are far more common in China than the US, which one would expect not to be the case if they couldn't be used to make Chinese food. Of course most people trot this argument out as a talking point and not because they actually like to make Chinese food very often.

> The idea that [I] can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nonsense.

Good for you? The most Chinese thing I make on a regular basis is frozen orange chicken (from <checks freezer> Foster Farms, apparently), so I don't really care.

In any case, I've yet to encounter a electric stove that's fit-for-purpose for anything more sophisticated than boiling water. That's not to say they don't exist, but someone else, somewhere else having one is rather irrelevant to me.

> induction stoves are far more common in China than the US, which one would expect not to be the case if they couldn't be used to make Chinese food.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure most uses of "Chinese food" on eg HN refer to American-adaptations-of-Chinese-food, similar to how "pizza" generally bears little resemblance to the traditional Italian dish, so this doesn't mean much either way.

> Of course most people trot this argument out as a talking point

I appreciate the implication that I'm not most people, I guess?

So you're making my point, then. Most people who trot out the line about how electric stoves are not suitable for Chinese cooking don't know or care about Chinese cooking and just want to use it as a cudgel.

> Most people who trot out the line

I have no idea what those people know, care about, or want, and I don't see how my comment has anything to do with them; it certainly doesn't make your point. My point is that electric stoves are not suitable for (almost) any kind of cooking, presumably but not specifically including Chinese.

I thought what I meant to imply was obvious enough, but maybe not. The idea that you can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nearly always made as bad-faith concern trolling and it is not correct.

> The idea that you can't cook [specifically] Chinese food on an electric stove

I never said that.

Your post contained a paragraph to this effect.

> Your post contained a paragraph to this effect.

0 > If your entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water, just get a damn microwave and stop ruining things for everyone else.

1 > 0: Quoted in full because it disappeared while I was writing my answer.

2 > Good for you? The most Chinese thing I make on a regular basis is frozen orange chicken (from <checks freezer> Foster Farms, apparently), so I don't really care.

3 > In any case, I've yet to encounter a electric stove that's fit-for-purpose for anything more sophisticated than boiling water. That's not to say they don't exist, but someone else, somewhere else having one is rather irrelevant to me.

4 > FWIW, I'm pretty sure most uses of "Chinese food" on eg HN refer to American-adaptations-of-Chinese-food, similar to how "pizza" generally bears little resemblance to the traditional Italian dish, so this doesn't mean much either way.

5 > I appreciate the implication that I'm not most people, I guess?

Which of those reads like "electric stoves are even worse at cooking chinese food (in particular) than they are at cooking most types of food" to you?

> And of course there are dishes (such as many Chinese dishes) which you simply could no longer cook.

It was this sentence that I was replying to.

That's a quotation, as indicated by the ">[0]" and even explicited mentioned in the associated footnote.