Is it common to use gas stoves for cooking in your country?

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1. Honestly I dont think I’ve ever seen a gas stove in my life, maybe in some old cabin but certainly not in someones home. Electric stoves without a doubt more popular. Even induction stoves are common these days, most new houses/kitchens pretty much have induction. But outside of that you’ll almost only see electric. Only time I’ve used gas for cooking is on the grill.

2. Gas is becoming less and less common, not in the last place because more and more people are getting solar panels.

3. Most new houses have electric stove (most expensive ones have induction), but older houses still have Gas

4. In Poland, it’s 50/50 now. In the past, virtually everyone used gas stoves. Now people are slowly transitioning towards electric stoves, primarly the ones that use induction. But my educates guess would be that about half of homes still use gas stoves, like my mom does.

5. Gas stoves remain much more common than electric stoves in Nizhny Novgorod and in Russia in general. However, new buildings tend to have electric ones, and installing gas stoves is not allowed at all in buildings with 11 floors or higher.

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7. Mostly electric stoves and some have induction.

   My Grandmother has in addition to her electric stove a wood stove in her kitchen.

8. It is quite common, although slightly less than electricity. Some households use both.

9. Ca 6% of German households use a gas stove.

   I grew up using one at our home and my Grandma’s home and prefer them.

   But nowadays we only have one using a gas bottle in the garden.

10. Only around 30 000 people and 300 restaurants in Helsinki cook with gas, don’t know about the rest of the country, but the gas grid only covers the very south/south-western part of the country.

    Even that 30 000 sounds a lot. I’ve never lived in Helsinki, but in the rest of the country I’ve never seen a gas stove in someone’s home. I’ve heard some people do use bottled gas for cooking outside the grid, even in cities, but electric stoves are the overwhelming majority and standard.

11. Very normal in the UK but I think they’re slowly starting to phase out in newer homes. I have an electric cooker and I hate it. Food tastes better at my mums in her gas cooker.

12. They’re very common. I have a gas stove, I think they’re much better than electric ones.

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14. Wood stove. We are going into the future with past solutions.

15. Gas stoves are preferred. Gas is a commodity available everywhere except in very rural areas. And even in these rural areas, people usually prefer to buy gas bottles than having an electric stove.

16. Can’t speak for everyone, but I always had gas and my family too (grandparents and uncles)

17. I have neve seen a non-induction electric stove. However gas stoves are still the main one

18. They were normal here, but are not that common anymore.
    You’ll often find them in cheap apartments in Copenhagen from the 1940’s

19. Gas is still used in old apartments, but new buildings and renovated kitchens tend to have induction.

20. We have two kitchens (multigenerational house), one with a gas stove and the other one with induction. I think gas is generally preferred, often with an electric oven, but in Hungary, some older houses still have a wood stove available. Especially where older people live. A gas stove and a wood stove in the kitchen, wood stove is used in the winter, gas in the summer. And I think wood stoves are very popular for second homes (if people can afford to have a second home, that is). In poverty striken areas, wood is the only available option oftentimes.

21. The vast majority of houses built after 2000 usually have ceramic hobs, from 2010 induction stoves. Gas stoves are still used in most restaurants, but are no longer normal in homes.

22. Gas stoves with electric oven are still very common.

23. I’d say that gas stoves are largely predominant, although induction stoves are not a novelty anymore. Traditional electric stoves (i.e. those that are just a bunch of large round resistors) are pretty rare. On the contrary, ovens are almost all electric.

24. We have gas stove with electric oven, which we bought 5 years ago.

    I think the main advantage is, that when there is few hour power outgage after a storm, we can still cook some food.

25. No and I was so confused how to use one when I moved to Scotland. Never seen one in Sweden

26. Electric, in any remotely modern kitchen an induction stove. I have quite literally only seen gas stoves in camper vans and portable stoves and such

27. My grandparents house in a small provincial town had gas (small tanks were delivered, no communal pipes) and I think when my parents started in Helsinki area they had gas (I have been told, was not born yet), larger cities had gasworks, but roughly since the 1970s it has become all electric. Our stove is induction, thoughhave both a gas grill and an electric one, in the suburbs.

28. It may happen in old apartments in some few select places. Most places do not have gas stoves. It’s mostly just electric stoves. Barely 80 000 households have gas stoves in Sweden and it’s mostly just Stockholm…

29. I believe almost everyone has an electric one. Except for summer cottages.

30. Gas stoves used to be more common (I think it still is) but newer houses or newly renovated kitchens more often use electric. During the 1960s basically everyone in the Netherlands got connected to the Groningen gas network as geologists discovered Europe’s largest gasfield underneath the northeast of the country in 1959 (the [Groningen gas field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field)). The government used this abundance of natural gas to fund generous social policies during the 1960s/70s and soon the largest part of Dutch households and industry ran on gas.

    However, the last decade gas has gotten a rather a bad reputation (not for cooking – but in general) due to the [Groningen crisis](https://nltimes.nl/2021/10/25/designate-groningen-earthquakes-national-crisis-ombudsman-says) involving earthquakes and major reconstruction works. Only a week ago, more than 10,000 people (and 250,000 people took part in an online campaign) took to the streets in Groningen to take part in a [march](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSParn-TGDw) against gas extraction in the area.

    Unlike other European countries (e.g. Germany) that use gas as a more sustainable alternative energy source for the climate transition, the Netherlands is trying to switch to green electricity from solar and wind energy, heat pumps and hydrogen as quickly as possible. New houses will no longer even have a gas connection and the aim is to disconnect as many houses as possible from the gas network by 2030 and all houses by 2050.

31. I have yet to see a gas stove in Sweden but I’m sure it exists somewhere.

32. i’ve never seen one, i don’t know anyone with one in their home, only in summer some cottages with no electricity. Some of us spend so much time in our summer homes that buying gas ends up not being worth the price. Electricity is definitely the preferred way (speaking from store work experience, gas buyers seem to be switching to electricity)

    also i live in a very rural area, 100km away from the nearest city and there are only 200 full time residents around here and around 20 000 vacation homes mostly used in the summer