Eating food is an essential activity in life. It keeps you nourished, energized, and ready to face life's changes - an army marches on its stomach, after all.
While you could eat right off fruit trees, shrubs, and even vines, these aren't the tastiest way to enjoy a meal. To do that, you have to mix and match different fruits, vegetables, and produce and cook a meal.
There are many ways to cook meals, however, and one of them is by using stoves. While there are many kinds of stoves for people to cook food with, let's look at electric stoves and see their pros and cons to better know if they're a good fit for your lifestyle and home.
Electric Stoves: What They Are And How They Work
Electric stoves are kitchen appliances that use electricity to heat themselves instead of using LPGs or other flammable gas from a tank.
According to Best Buy, an electric stove works by running electricity through its metal coils that are either exposed or hidden underneath a smooth glass or ceramic surface, to produce heat. Exposed coils are more durable and efficient, while smooth tops (electric stoves with hidden coils) cook more evenly.
Many of these electric stoves reflect a more modern take on kitchen appliances that focus on being as efficient in power usage, space, and money. They also come with an "elegant and contemporary shape" that perfectly fits the kitchen of today, per Yale Tools.
The Pros
If you're afraid of creating gas leaks whenever you install a new gas tank for a gas stove to use, you might want to use an electric stove instead since all you have to do is plug it into a socket. Another bonus to this simplicity is the fact that it could also help save the environment, depending on your power supplier's source of energy.
Additionally, meats and potatoes tend to come out better in electric stoves than with any other stoves available thanks to its even heat distribution if All Area Appliance Service's article is to be believed. The heat it generates to cook food also lasts longer, even when it's switched off, allowing you to continue cooking or heating even after it's turned off.
Since an electric stove comes with a modern look, it is aesthetically appealing to the eye and is simpler to clean thanks to its smooth surface and easy-to-clean coils if they're exposed.
The Cons
Despite the pros of such a kitchen appliance, some obvious cons and drawbacks make using an electric stove your exclusive meal cooker. For one, it won't work if the power's out, forcing you to rely on already-cooked food, biscuits, and other foodstuffs that don't require cooking. Additionally, food isn't cooked as quickly as it would with a gas stove since it takes quite some time to heat and cool the coils to cook and avoid overheating, respectively.
Despite that, Pulte Homes mentioned that the slow cook time is perfect for those who want to create home-cooked masterpieces that require lots of patience.
Furthermore, getting and using electric stoves could be more expensive than buying and using a gas stove due to the many features electric stoves have and the amount of power they need to cook food.
Last but not least is that electric stoves require special cookware to cook food with flat bottom cookware, and cooking utensils made of iron, steel, and stainless steel are required to get perfectly cooked meals with electric stoves every time.
