I live in an apartment and anyone who has would know that the cook top is always fucked. All my coils are slanted towards the center as if a fat woman ran across a row of ovens for some sort of fatlogic twitter stunt.
I'm looking to buy a cooktop to use instead because so all my food/oil doesn't pool on one side when I cook and burn everything, and because they're portable (I'll find a use for that later).
Does anyone have experience with pic related? My Asian market has a gas version that cost half as much, about $25-30, and cooks well enough too. What do you recommend?
William Young
The gas version from the Asian market. >Academy has them too
Jack Brown
Induction is ass Gas is boss
Nolan Hernandez
Getting refills for gas is a fucking pain. Just get an induction, they work plenty well enough.
Jack Cooper
Since his apartment already had a cooktop I would imagine it also has a gas supply
Noah Williams
t. never used induction
David Gonzalez
>All my coils are slanted towards the center dosen't sound like a gas cooktop
Jason Wright
> all my food/oil doesn't pool on one side when I cook and burn everything
or you could level your damn stove
Chase James
I have that unit. It's great. buy it.
Mason Flores
Both are excellent and used widely in asia because of limited space. Personally I'd get an induction, refilling the gas cannisters is a pain in the ass.
Alexander Powell
sadly, no gas supply cook top on the oven is electric, I think apartments around here are all electric
Brayden Nelson
They're all slanted inwards to the center, one side isn't higher than the others, the cook top itself dips in the middle. Just a cheap appliance.
Jason Hughes
I'll get the induction then. Aside from the pic, what are decent brands and whats a good price range?
Mason Sanders
>no gas supply
how's that 3rd world country treating you, Juan?
Jace Hughes
Countertop griddles are awesome for a lot of things but not all. Mine even has temperature control
Hunter Ward
>Juan You're not far off, Houston actually Which collectively we have more gas and oil than any other city.
Christopher Sullivan
Why isn't it plumbed into your house then, 3rd worlder?
Cameron Gutierrez
Fuck dude crawl out of your mom's basement cave. There's huge areas of the land of corporate pillaging that don't have natural gas and rely on the unregulated propane jew if they're not all electric.
Luis Price
>propane jew >always cheaper than electric
Jordan Reyes
most apartments in the united states don't have gas. it's fucked up but true.
Jack Harris
not everyone wants stinky gas fumes in their fucking house t. has gas plumbing but still uses electric
Lucas Baker
seriously
for most things induction is great
unless you cook exclusively in a wok
Jackson Brooks
I've never seen an apartment that didn't have gas and I've lived in apartments my entire life.
Jordan Watson
even then i'd say over 95% of residential gas stoves don't have the btus required for a wok
Dominic Myers
Who cares
Also induction is for old people, my mom and my aunt basically forced my grandma to get rid of her gas stove and install induction because they were afraid she was going to burn the place down in her old age
I'll admit it's pretty amazing for boiling water, but otherwise it's shit
Charles Wilson
>Who cares great argument
Nolan Russell
Mine isn't shit.
I can set it to any temp and it'll keep it there no matter what extra shit I dump into the pot. If you can't see the value in this and you can't see why no other stove technology can replicate it then there's no hope for you and you might as well give up and become a trap.
Bentley Bell
so 3 apt?
Jacob Williams
there are no apartments that have gas in them, electric is cheap and easy to install and the residents absorb the 100% of the cost after installation. its smarter for the renters
Lincoln Fisher
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to hook that thing up to your gas anyway.
Jonathan Jenkins
I moved into an apartment with great rent, a balcony and central air. The downside was that the oven is electric and the larger coil doesn't fit right. As if I was ripped from another unit. So I went out and bought an induction jobby. Very, very nice. Turns out I already owned a ton of shit that worked with induction anyways.
Cameron Nelson
What do you need to use with induction?
Parker Brown
>what are decent brands Make sure you get one that can be set for a minimum power setting well below 400W. Most of them dont go lower than that and it is huge pain in the ass, because that will still get a pretty furious boil going with anything less than a full three gallon pot. No way to gently simmer some bolognese for three hours or something while taking a nap, it would boil off all the liquid. The only induction top I know of with proper power settings is the IKEA Tillreda, which has 300W and 100W settings. 100W gives you a perfect simmer. >What do you need to use with induction? You need cookware with some metal in the bottom that responds to a magnet. Look for the induction "coil" symbol. All cast iron works well, as does all carbon steel. Pretty much any newer cookware except pure cast aluminium is induction compatible.