Which fuel do you prefer for cooking? Gas, electricity, or wood?

If I had a choice between a gas and electric stove then I would definitely go for gas. Same goes for the stovetop as well. You just have so much more control with gas and feel like you are really cooking compared to just twiddling knobs and oushing buttons! Having a wood fire stove would be a fantastic thing to have as a secondary cooker though as I love the taste of food cooked in ovens like these! They can take a bit of work from the uninitiated to get going and to maintain the cooking process as you have already shared; but the effort is well worth it! I have especially always loved the woodfire pizza ovens that some people have been starting to use in BBQ areas these days. The taste of not just pizzas but breads and fish etc cooked in these types of ovens is unbelievable!

I have a smooth top electric cook top. I love it. I've had gas stoves before but I don't like the open flame. Then I had an electric stove and it was nice but hard to clean the burners. Now I have a ceramic cook top and I just love it. It's so easy to clean. It heats up fast too.

Well I do not know how to maintain the heat properly on a wood stove but I do love gas. I have heard that it adds a lovely taste to bread when cooked in a wood oven though. I love the instant heat of gas and the ability to turn it off instantly. I used electric stoves for years and there was so much wasted heat after you turned it off. I tried to master turning it off before the end of cooking and using the residual heat but with the gas it is cold as soon as the switch is off. I would hate to have to go back to electricity. With the wood stove it would be useful if you were using it for heat anyway but I do not know how you would keep the temperature constant.

i am using electricity and here in germany we usually have electricity for cooking purposes and you find gas very less here but in india we have gas in common and electricity we use very less. we feel gas is of less price in india and it is more common there but here it is different and we have electricity in common.

i feel gas and electric stoves are far more comfortable than the old fashioned wood stove. it is because they become messy and pollute the environment.

I'd say gas because im not a energy saver freak. They always say "Live life to the fullest".

I prefer to use gas to cook, perhaps I'm used to it. I always think it's faster to heat up and it's better to use gas to fry stuffs. Using electric stove seems very slow to heat up the food. I always like to fry my vegetables, I think gas is better for me. I haven't use wood stove before, I have no idea how it is used.

I cook on an electric stove, but I do prefer gas for just the reasons that you gave. But I just adapt to the delays with electricity at both ends of the cooking process and I actually find it useful sometimes to be able to leave the pan on the element to continue cooking for a little longer while I do something else. I've cooked over an open wood fire while camping, but I've never used a wood burning cooking stove and I'd imagine that it would require a whole new set of skills to get used to it. It sounds like a whole new cooking experience

You mean there are people who still use wood to cook?

I have no personal preference as I can and have cooked with both. The only difference with electric is that you have to wait a small amount of time for the heating up of the coils. If you want to lower the heat fast, you learn to slide the pot over until it cools a little, but I find no problems cooking either way.

I have an electric stove, but i used to have gas and i really liked it so much better. Everything heats up fast and even. You can see how high or low you want the flame. I also like a wood stove.

well i am still student and i dont know how to cook and in my home my mom uses gas for cooking and she will make the dishes excellently and i love the dishes which have done by my mom...very less people will use the wood like poor people and many use electricity for cooking food....as technology changes i mean that technology increases...

I use gas for cooking. I feel gas is easier to cook and comfortable. Happy to share your views. Happy myLotting.

Not a fabulous cook by any stretch of the imagination but once I got used to cooking on an electric stove I would never go back to gas.

I prefer electric all the way. My mom and grandmother had a gas stove and I hated them things. With electric I didn't have to worry about suddenly running out of gas. When we had our coal/wood burning stove I cooked in it in the winter more then I did the electric stove. I even baked on it..made great cornbread. We no longer have it since it was a hassle to keep going all day and night and I just couldn't stay up all that time to keep it going. We heat with kerosene now and just today I cooked breaded cordon bleu chicken on it for supper. It was mighty tasty. I am also going to be cooking my turkey on it also for Thanksgiving.

I know that gas is the better option, but, I am deathly afraid of fire, so we have electric.

We do have gas for cooking most of the time but with the high price of cooking gas nowadays, we do cook using wood once in a while to help us save. I love cooking in wood as the food has a better taste and really saves us some money to pay bills or other stuff needed in the house.

I know what you are saying about things cooked on (or in) a woodstove. I dated a man years ago, whose family did all of their cooking on a woodstove. Everything tasted so much better that what could be done in either an electric or gas stove. Thinking back now, to some of the meals I ate there, my mouth is watering...lol. I never understood exactly why it tasted so much better, but I thought perhaps it had more to do with smell, since that is such a big factor in taste. The is nothing like the smell of certain woods burning on a woodstove. The downside is, of course, having to use it in the summer when it's already hot out. I've never had a gas stove, so I can't really compare it, although I can certainly see advantages of instant heat changes. I guess if I had the room, and the choice, I'd opt for a woodstove in the winter for cooking and heating the house, and an electric in the summer.

Hi frnds, I will prefer a fuel for cooking is gas.In my home we will prepare food in the gas stove only.Some times we will use a electricity stove when the gas is over.In the winter time we will use a electricity stove.

I think gas is the way to go, however I also like mesquite quite a bit too.