Electricity.

[rhythmaning]

The house I have been living in for the last week in the far north of Britain, as far as you can go, has an electric cooker

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[lizziebelle]

I was disappointed that everything in this apartment is electric, including the stove. It's been a very long time since I've cooked with electric. Fortunately, it's a fairly new stove so it heats up & cools down fairly quickly, and I have yet to burn anything. But it's not the same.

[nicnac]

Jim's mum is the same, wouldn't countenance gas central heating, even when Warmfront offered to install it for free. Maybe it's a generation thing.

I prefer an electric oven and a gas hob, which is so much more responsive. You have my sympathy cooking on electric rings :/ We truly are children of the first world ;)

[fiendish_cat]

I like gas hobs and electric ovens. (Which is also what I grew up with.)

When I bought this flat it had an all gas stove: a flip down gas grill at the top (which was a new one on me but rather fun), gas hob, gas oven. I was always quite scared about lighting this grill and oven (particularly the oven) but the oven cooked brilliantly.

[fiendish_cat]

Sadly it was a freestanding stove - and also pretty ancient - so when I re-did the kitchen it had to go. Now I'm back to gas hob and electric oven beneath (grill is in oven).

[danieldwilliam]

I think town gas was coal that was gassified and therefore had carbon monoxide in it - which is poisonous.

[rhythmaning]

I've just remembered I hadn't replied.

But I think that makes a lot of sense.