There are lots of other posts on this if you search! but we switched from gas to induction and i absolutely could not be happier, and would never return to gas. it does extremely high heat to very even low heat on every burner in a way that is pretty impossible to do on gas. i also find gas to be unpleasantly hot to cook with now and makes handles scorchingly hot as well. the only deficit would be wok cooking but i never had a good enough gas stove to do that prior anyway.

My sister has induction and I have a high-end gas range. If I could wave a magic wand (ie not have to pay) I'd switch to induction in a heartbeat. There's much better control over smaller degrees of heat than with gas. It has a timer, so if you forget to turn off your simmering soup, it will do it for you. And, we've left wooden spoons or oven mitts too close to the flame a few times --- just charred things, but my sister's apron caught on fire once with the gas range that she replaced with induction.

In poll after poll, all across the internet, maybe 1/2 of 1% prefer gas to induction, after they have lived with it.

I personally dislike gas (which works out since there's no gas to the house.) I grew up with radiant and now have induction.

I love my new induction stove; I'm still a bit in the learning curve for a few things, but I love the consistency and responsiveness. You do need to make sure your pans are compatible, but it's easy to check with a magnet and attention to size/flatness (and for us it was a great reason to purge cookware we weren't using anyways.) I also like that I still have a smooth surface, since we have a small kitchen with limited counter space.

NB: you may need to upgrade your circuit/plug for your new range. Investigate that before it arrives, so you don't have a scramble to get an electrician out at the last minute. We had to update our outlet (four prongs are standard now, though many homes still have three prong); we did update the breaker (50A to 60A), as well, though we technically could have left that as is. This is worth checking regardless of what you get, but induction is less likely to have an adapter cord option if you do have a three prong.

I have gas and am planning on induction when I replace it. The primary reason is I'm concerned about burning the house down -- DH and I have both forgotten to turn off the burners on numerous occasions. The second reason is ease of cleaning.

I have a gas range and I love it...

But...I bet I would love Induction too. In our next reno we will do induction. I have heard great things and I believe I could learn to cook on an induction cook top. I live in a hot climate and the induction cools off more quickly which is very appealing in a southern kitchen. I have heard they are easier to clean too. Although I have been happy with my gas range and it's sealed burners.

Cooktop - Induction or Gas? Ruth Doubleday

this is the one I am dreaming of.... Viking Induction looks so sleek

Viking 36" All-Induction Cooktop · More Info

or this one as a full range

HR 1622 i 30" Induction Range · More Info

People acted like i was crazy for switching out my gas for induction but i’m obsessed. heats up really fast and so easy to clean.

I have had induction, and currently have a high-end gas range. Definitely prefer the induction. Induction is so easy to control temperatures, easy to clean, has cooler top, etc. If my range wasn't newer (new home) I'd definitely switch to induction!!!

If it weren't for the buzzing and our periodic power outages (thank you, PGE), I would switch to induction. Way better than breathing in gas fumes!

Another induction fan. The indoor air quality is better (every other gas appliance has to have dedicated venting but not a gas stove?) and the cleanup is simply amazing. We just put a cheap ($1300) ikea induction in our summer house because I couldn’t with the propane. Just the fact that you can fry with newspaper covering the cooking surface is amazing.

I think, like anything else, some people will love induction and some will not.

I have used the old electric coil, electric glass top, gas and induction. I grew up in a home with the electric coil, I had gas in all of the homes I lived in from the time I left home until I was 57. I bought a home with a glass top electric range and I bought a single induction hob after using my brother's induction range.

My brother and his wife absolutely love induction.

I was not as impressed. It is faster and more responsive to changes in temperature than gas, but gas is pretty quick - quick enough that I don't have any issues. Using the glass top electric range was a PITA. My old cast iron isn't the enamel clad cast iron, just cast iron and it did not work great on the hob. It may not be as smooth, but it didn't heat all that evenly- had hot spots and cool spots.

The glass top is both a positive and a negative for me. Positive - easy to clean. Negative - you can scratch it with cast iron pots and pans and you can break it. (Not sure how, but mine shattered 5 years after I moved in.) It also requires your pots and pans be perfectly flat. I own a lot of cookware and some are not flat. Some are also not magnetic - so you can't use them on induction without a steel plate which makes the induction work like electric.

The other consideration is cost, including getting 220 run to your kitchen if it is not there.

The GE Cafe single oven range runs $2400 for gas and $3800 for induction.

For me induction did not offer enough benefits for me to spend the extra money on the range, risk another glass top, to have to replace some of my cookware, to not have the even cooking I am used to from my cast iron cookware and to battle the learning curve.

I purchased a Cafe 30" single oven gas range and am very happy with my choice.

I don't think my brother and his wife are wrong for loving induction and I don't think I am wrong for loving gas.

My oldest sister, who passed away in January, would not consider induction. She was a physician, had a pacemaker and an ICD, her husband had a pacemaker and a DBS. Some people will say the risk of interference from an induction cooktop is a minor risk and it probably will never cause interference, but my sister and her husband said they wouldn't add unnecessary risk when they already had so many health issues.

One other issue I had with the single burner hob was that it did interfere with my dogs electronic boundary collar. It would shock her when she came too close to the hob (about 3' from the hob).

You have to decide for yourself, but you may want to test things out by getting a single burner hob before spending the extra money on the range or cooktop.

I seriously considered induction in our new build because I loved the idea of easy cleaning and I’d heard the high heat is great on them and I do a lot of high heat cooking. After much consideration, I ended up choosing gas. We only have propane, so I chose a bluestar that was built for propane. I love the open burners, all of the cast iron, and how you can break the whole thing down to clean it. I often use a wok and being able to set it directly in the burner is great because I chose not to have a large outdoor kitchen because of the wind where I live. The main reason I didn’t chose induction was our regular power outages in the winter where we live and I didn’t want to fire up the generator just to cook. (Also another reason why I like my tech free bluestar range) I still like the idea of induction, I certainly see the appeal! However, I used an induction cooktop when we were visiting some of our in-laws and after accidentally turning it off my daughter’s mother in law whispered to me that she didn’t really want to tell her hubby that she would rather go back to gas. I take it that some induction cooktops are better than others. Oh, one other reason I stepped off the induction ledge was that quite a bit of my cookware turned out to not be induction friendly and I guess I’m an old dog that didn’t want to learn new tricks and invest in new cookware. LOL! Anyways, I’m very happy with my propane range.

I wouldn’t even consider a gas range, having had induction for many years now. Safe. Clean. Sleek. Fast. No strange effluent settling on surfaces or in your lungs. Everyone in my large extended family has made the switch in the last 10 years, and every is so pleased.

I installed a 48" Wolf range in my previous kitchen, which had natural gas. When we built a few years later I went with a 36" Wolf induction range. We have a buried 500 gallon propane tank at the new build, but Induction seemed like the better choice.

Very happy with the Induction, specially when other people in the house decide to cook! So much easier and quicker to clean the Induction top.

For power outages I can use my outdoor grill and outdoor double burner, both hooked up to the propane tank.

@jennifer hogan, the induction also gave me some pause because when I was still in the consideration phase I realized that it was remotely possible that my mom might one day end up living with us, and she had a gastric pacemaker. I knew it was a kind of far fetched risk, but it did make me pause. Sadly, she passed away before our home was finished being built.

IMO thre will always be some who love gas and some who love induction. My gas range heats up at least as fast as induction has the ability to simmer very low and I have now had 4 clients who insisted on inductoion go back to gas . In renovations often the electrical will need to be inproved to have induction so often that drives choice where I live where gas is realively cheap.Most of my clients that have induction love it . I do have one portable induction burner I use for really delicate sauces for catering jobs but have no intention of going induction. for the rest of my cooking.

I grew up with gas and my mom still had gas up until around 2019 when she switched to induction - she loves the induction and would never go back!

As I mentioned, I grew up with gas. I've also had electric coil in apartments, electric radiant smooth top in my old and new Kitchen, and recently switched to induction. Induction is the best of all. (When I redid my Kitchen years ago, I made sure to have a 50-amp circuit installed for the cooktop -- I was already thinking about induction even then!)

One note about the standalone hobs - they are NOT the same as an induction cooktop or range. They're no where near as good. I had a hob and wasn't particularly happy with it. But, when I used my mom's induction range, I realized it was very different than the hob I had. So I went ahead and took the chance and switched to induction and I'm very glad I did! (My DH was skeptical, but he's a convert now was well - the ease of cleaning & nothing sticking on it sold him since he cleans up!)

Gas. All the way. Also saves the need to buy new pots to use on the induction surface. Power is a big issue as BPMBA says - you can still cook with gas, and if you live with winter snow like I do you can melt a pot of snow to flush the toilets (been there done that)!

If you go with induction/electric then I suggest getting a home generator as backup.

I have gas and cant switch to induction as i need the flame for my everyday cooking. Wok plus chapathis etc. So i think it depends on what you cook.

The induction cooktops to look at are Miele and Bosch. Bosch also has reasonably priced 30" and 36" ranges with knobs.

There's an easy work-around if you lose power: Portable butane camping burners. They're easily stored away when not in use. Or a propane grill outside.

I love induction and have used it for about 7 years now, and can't imagine choosing to cook on anything else. My sister just switched from gas (propane) to induction once they got a stand-by generator and won't suffer any more power outages - she's lives down a rural road 40 miles from a small city, so power outages happen a few time a year.

Cooking outside because you’ve lost power isn’t always an easy work-around. When we tend to lose power it’s winter, and while we don’t suffer with freezing temps, we do have issues with really high winds. I do have my propane grill on a side of the house where it’s more sheltered from the prevailing winds, but when it’s really strong I still have trouble getting my grill to hold temperature.

No power = time for a peanut butter sandwich or take out. I don't really want to cook by flashlight, and avoiding opening the fridge reduces what I can cook anyways. I don't think I'd let the possibility of power outages dictate my appliances unless there were a safety factor. The biggest factors in our range selection were thermal control and size/configuration. Thus far, we love our Bertazzoni induction range.

Well... I mean... power outages here can last for days (or potentially longer) we can cook in the daylight and while I love a pb&j sandwich I don’t want that to be my only option. Where we live nobody delivers food even when the weather is perfect, and we have to traverse a mountain pass to get to the next town and we might not be able to get over the pass. Heck, sometimes we can’t even get out of our own neighborhood, which happened last winter and we (and everyone in our neighborhood) were stuck for 5 days, even though most of us have all wheel or 4 wheel drive. Most of my life I’ve lived on the outskirts of large cities and I’ve never really had to consider what it’s like to live rural. I love it now, and my views are spectacular, but you have to decide how you’re going to deal with regular power outage occurrences and not everyone chooses to deal with it in the same way. Our neighbors rely on their wood burning stove. We decided to nix the wood burning stove when it was discovered that my allergies were too much. (Though the house was designed for one and it could be added at any time) Yes, I’m probably too bougie and high maintenance to survive a zombie apocalypse or Armageddon, but my pantry is well stocked and we are going to wine and dine during our regular seasonal power outages. (My neighbors would probably survive the major stuff though, LOL!)

I have a small generator for when we lose power for over 12 hours. It will run my freezer and my refrigerator and I can charge my phone without overworking the generator, so my heat is my gas fireplace and I cook with the gas stove or outside - depends on the weather.

Yeah, I live in suburbia ... guess it depends on one's situation. We do have a wood stove, so I guess in a pinch it should be possible to cook on top of that ... can't say I've tried.

Most of my life I’ve lived on the outskirts of large cities and I’ve never really had to consider what it’s like to live rural.

Me as well - I lived most of my life in a big city (millions), and then moved abruptly to a rural area outside of a small city (20,000), and it's a different world with respect to utilities. A few weeks after I arrived, I had a 5 day power outage, which means - living with a well and septic - that I didn't even have water from my faucets. I lasted 2 days before I decamped to stay with family, and then immediately made plans to get a stand-by generator ;)

Most of my life I've lived with well & septic, but not so far out that it was difficult to get to a store. However, IF a storm is expected, we fill the bathtub with water for flushing the toilet. If it's unexpected (storm or other), we either wait it out or head out to my daughter's home to get water. I do have a few gallons "saved" in case we cannot get out (only one way out of our neighborhood).

[We just inherited a standalone gas-powered generator from my mom (she got a whole-house generator & doesn't need it any more) and once we get an electrician to wire the house to plug in the generator to power our Ref, Freezer, and well pump, we won't have to worry about water (at least cold) when we lose power. Our other appliances will be an issue, but we rarely lose power for long -- they're pretty good about getting repairs done even though we're "low on the totem pole" with regards to priority. It helps that our particular neighborhood has underground power lines, but leading up to our neighborhood it's the old-style above-ground.]

Yes, we have a generator with an interlock system that we can run off of gasoline or propane. So we could’ve used electric for cooking with that... but we preferred to not need the generator for as many things so we wouldn’t have to use it as much. For most power outages we don’t even need to use it at all. We are fortunate that the water district for our unincorporated area is further down our road, so our road happens to get priority for any outages. But we are just one tsunami or major flooding event away from being stuck for God knows how long. We are up high enough, but our access out would be blocked.

I live in CA in the middle of Silicon Valley — you’d think our utility company would have its act together, but… you’d be wrong. ;) We regularly lose power for a few hours at a time; and 2 years ago, we lost it for 4 days; and then another few days a month or so later. It’s bonkers. :p We should have gotten one of those Tesla powerwalls.

i have not lost power in a long time, i had forgotten how we used our gas grill to cook a Thanksgiving Turkey one year after a terrible ice storm caused an outage. One of my adult kids use to live in California and talked about the rolling outages it was very challenging. Makes you think differently about a gas range.

Butane burner can be used inside the house.

Example: Eureka SPRK Camp Stove | REI Co-op

Problem solved. I mean, if I have a power outage I'm not hosting a dinner party, who can't get by with a single portable burner for a handful of days?

Well is a completely different story. I lost power twice in a span of 6 months for just shy of a week. Food = no problem. Heat = no problem (gas fireplace). Water = problem. Once my racks of stashed jugs were gone I resorted to filling up empty jugs at the office and carting them home every night. I did go to a relative's house after a few days to shower. Yes I need a generator.

But the topic at hand is induction ranges. If you want induction but are worried about a power outage, have your back-up plan. Same as with anything else.