POLL: Gas stove or electric stove?

[Redconer]

Electric all the way

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[Night Fox]

isn't it kinda inconvenient to take a pan you're using off the stove and then wait for it to adjust to the correct temperature

it doesn't take that long to cool off :v

[Pie Crust]

yes you can...? if you touch a hot coil with a paper towel, it'll catch on fire

It will burn but not catch on fire unless something nearby causes a spark. A/C current, especially on coil resistors, will sometimes give off tiny sparks that are enough to light something if it is very hot. Electric stoves, IIRC, have the coils below a thick glass. There is no way it will catch anything on fire.

[Night Fox]

It will burn but not catch on fire unless something nearby causes a spark. A/C current, especially on coil resistors, will sometimes give off tiny sparks that are enough to light something if it is very hot.

it will catch on fire, lol. all you need for fire is heat, oxygen, and fuel. the heat is from the coil, oxygen is in the air, and the paper towel is the fuel. something doesn't require a spark to catch fire. who even told you that?

Electric stoves, IIRC, have the coils below a thick glass.

some might, but not any I've ever used

[Pie Crust]

who even told you that?

Teachers, mechanics and lab assitants. Why?

[shropz]

Most do nowadays at least. Even the one I had from 10 years ago did.

I would hope that at some point in the future improvements to electric stove technology could be made more prevalent so that some of the present issues could be ironed out

[Nonnel]

electric

[Night Fox]

Teachers, mechanics and lab assitants. Why?

your teachers, mechanics, and lab assistants were wrong. haven't you ever heard of lighting fires by focusing sulight? no spark there

[ResonKinetic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature

[/Pacha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature

the autoignition point for paper is actually higher than whats written there, lol

The fact that the autoignition point of paper popularized from Fahrenheit 451 is incorrect. The actual autoignition temperature is 450 degrees Celsius, about 842 degrees Fahrenheit. This data from Handbook of Physical Testing of Paper, By Jens Borch, Richard E. Mark, M. Bruce Lyne. http://books.google.com/books?id=qa-I8QAOUL8C&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=flash+point+of+paper&source=web&ots=FjB5FslcKK&sig=Vlr2cc8M2-TWy3qkdwzGUeK-vnM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA406,M1

[ResonKinetic]

the autoignition point for paper is actually higher than whats written there, lol

So it is.

I wasn't really trying to prove anything, but it sure caused an awkward silence for a bit.

Anyhoo, someone should probably fix that.

[Night Fox]

I wasn't really trying to prove anything, but it sure caused an awkward silence for a bit.

it was ten minutes

[ResonKinetic]

and the nitpicking continues

[Zanaran2]

Why not both?

[ResonKinetic]

Why not both?

because one is better and the other is slow and lame

also why isn't charcoal an option