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Re:US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new hom... by legitster on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:32PM (#38724622)
> That might be a bit of propaganda from the gas industry over the last 50 years

What a crazy conspiracy theory. It assumes electric companies and appliance makers do no marketing of their own.

Gas cooking is obviously a more luxurious experience and anyone who says otherwise has not tried to make a hollandaise sauce on each.

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Re:US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new hom... by JohnFen on Thursday December 21, 2023 @04:48PM (#38727499)
> Gas cooking is obviously a more luxurious experience and anyone who says otherwise has not tried to make a hollandaise sauce on each.

I've made hollandaise and other delicate sauces on both. In my book, they're both perfectly fine. Excluding induction (which I have struggles with), I wouldn't call either better than the other.

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Re:US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new hom... by TheCoelacanth on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:35PM (#38724669)
I've never had any trouble making hollandaise on an electric range.
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Re:US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new hom... by RetpolineDrama on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:56PM (#38725935)
>Gas cooking is obviously a more luxurious experience

Maybe for the 60+ boomer crowd, for everyone else Induction is way cooler than gas.

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Re:US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new hom... by Incipient on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:56PM (#38730420)
Don't you make a hollandaise sauce with a double boiler type approach? So shouldn't that really make the heat source even less relevant? As you lift the inner bowl to adjust cooking temp?
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