On 2 Jan 2006 19:07:24 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Mon 02 Jan 2006 10:02:17a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Bill?
>
>> On 2 Jan 2006 06:42:58 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun 01 Jan 2006 10:34:18p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ?
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:57:52 -0500, Stan Horwitz >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You never see an electric cooktop in a restaurant kitchen. They are
>>>> always gas.
>>>
>>>I'm not cooking in a restaurant kitchen.
>>
>> go Wayne...you tell em!
>>>
>>>> These chefs know what's best - so there's no argument.
>>>
>>>What is arguable is whether what is best in a restaurant kitchen is also
>>>best for a home kitchen.
>>
>> ah...keep going Wayne...you know come to think of it....every
>> restaurant kitchen I have ever been in had a gas range...there's got
>> to be a logical reason for this?
>
>One of the reasons is economy, as gas is much cheaper to use commercially.
>If I'm not mistaken, ocean liners use electricity primarily for safety
>reasons, and they easily turn out huge volumes of generally excellent food.
>
>All the years I lived at home my parents had gas ranges. I never really
>liked cooking on them, and especially didn't like baking in the gas oven.
>I didn't fully realize how much I disliked it until I had my first
>apartment and had an electric cooktop and wall oven. When my mom helped me
>cook a holiday meal in my apartment, the following week she bought an
>electric range. Neither of us ever went back to gas.

Why? I've cooked with both and can't imagine why someone would run
out and buy an electric range after cooking on one, especially the
cooktop.

In a previous message you said:
>"If my home had a gas range, I would never ever cook until it had been
>replaced with an electric range. "

The differences are not so great as to cause such hysteria.

Could you be specific on what your problem is with gas ranges? I
really don't understand.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!