> 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.