Gas hobs - Yay or nay

Induction for me.

It was a brand new house and brand new kitchen and a Bosch hob, it’s hardwired. I just don’t think it’s that great. I hate that it will switch itself off if it gets wet and it’s 5 pan but if you use them all one side is much better than the other. As I said, I’m getting used to it: but I don’t love and rave it like some of you seem to!

I love my gas hob. I'd never change. I had an induction hob in a holiday cottage for a fortnight and I hated it.

I will only have gas as it feels right and properly controllable to me. I don’t think electric or ceramic are any good, they’re horrible to use. It’s like trying to cook with your eyes closed, or trying to scratch an itch with mittens on!
Never tried induction.

True @BIWI I should have been more accurate re: chefs kitchens.
If you're cooking using a wok or making a chapatti gas is the first choice.
For the record I have both induction and gas combined and use them as needed.
Get what suits you OP

I do think there is some bias in that report because fossil fuels are frowned upon now

Love my gas hob. Not keen on electric tbh

You possibly have a poor induction hob as this is not my experience at all. I think it is a power thing as in when you have 2 rings on it splits the load. My induction had to be hard wired in on a 32 amp breaker rather than a 13amp plug. Lots of induction hobs are on normal UK plugs. Mine was installed over a decade ago and I did a lot of research at the time re power because we needed to be able to use more than one ring on a high setting.

I love my gas hob and am in a constant argument with DH and DD who want to swap it for an induction.

I use to the char aubergines and peppers all the time. We eat a lot of middle eastern vegetarian food, and cooking the vey over an open plam adds such a lot of flavour to the dishes. A cooks blowtorch comes nowhere near the same effect.

The same for heating through chapattis or flour tortillas - In just toss it on the flame for a few seconds each side.

I uderstand that it's much more of a faff to clean than an induction, but the flavour results are worth it to me.

Ceramic and old electric hobs are just useless. I don't know how people can be bothered with them.

My ultimate position is that when DH and DD do the majority of the meals, they an decide what type of hob we have. While it still falls to me 80% of the time, we're sticking with gas.

Not true! All the chefs at Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons use induction.

Depends if you're "into" cooking. If you are gas all the way. The cleaning doesn't come in to it.

You would never see a professional kitchen with out it.

Modern electric induction hob

More controlled than my old gas

Really fast to boil up

Potential to be better for environment

Definitely better

What do you mean by toast a tortilla, as I think I do this all the time in my induction hob…

I have a Bosch. I’m getting used to it now but I don’t love it.

Need a decent powered one, I think.

Induction. Ceramic unresponsive, gas inefficient, bad for lungs and expensive

Has job, electric oven here. Never used an induction hob but I hate electric with a passion.

We’ve got a gas cooker rather than a separate oven and hob and I love it, I wouldn’t change it for anything. Aside from being really obvious whether it’s on or off (I have a deep mistrust of electric hobs) it’s great for warming the place up while you’re cooking and making sure you can still have hot food if you have a power cut. I don’t care enough about pollution or health risks for either to be a factor.

I don't know what brand of hob you have, but IME induction hobs are much faster than gas plus just as controllable.

Induction fan here. I was a bit nervous about swapping over but it is just as good but so much easier to keep clean. A quick wipe over and good as new.

Took me a day or two to get used to induction after gas (you do have to allow an extra second to turn it on/adjust the temp) but really not hard and since then no issues at all

Just switched from gas to induction and it is dreamy! Just as responsive as gas and on the Power setting, much hotter than gas if you want a quick blast to bring something to the boil. And the cleaning!! Nothing to take apart, just a quick wipe with a damp cloth. I would never go back.

Neither. Hate them.both with a passion. I want an induction hob. I had one in my previous house and miss it so much. Our current house has a gas hob, can't wait to change it

I love gas but we have induction in our new kitchen- slightly nervous as have never used it before so I am finding this thread reassuring. I’ve always preferred cleaning gas hobs as well as you can really scrub without worrying about scratching it.

I hadn’t heard the gas was polluting.

Another vote for induction. We were persuaded to switch by the sales person when we got our new kitchen fitted 8 years ago. He said it was safer & cheaper. Other than the cost of buying new pans, I have been absolutely delighted with it. Would never go back now.
If it was a choice between gas & ceramic though, I'd choose gas as it's far more controllable. I've hated every ceramic hob I've ever used.