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> I haven't found this to be the case, they both require effort to clean.

Electrics are (generally) a smooth flat surface. Of course you're not getting out of it entirely, but it's still a question of night and day compared to the mess of a gas stove.

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Electric stoves generally use raised exposed heating coils (that are rarely able to stay level, making oil and other liquids run to one side of the pan, making frying etc. stuff a headache). I've lived in one place over 40+ years that had a flat top electric stove, and it suffered from being even slower to heat up than regular electric.

I'd kill to have a gas stove and be able to do serious stovetop cooking.

Any modern (made within the last ~20 years) electric stove is going to just have a flat top with markings, just like an induction stove.[0] Before that you'd have a flat surface with a cast iron disk protruding for each hot surface.[1] Less trivial than the flat surface, but still not too bad. I've seen.. maybe.. one with an exposed coil in my entire life, and that thing was ancient. Faaaaar from "generally use".

[0]: https://www.electrolux.se/services/eml/asset/782bdf32-f709-4...

[1]: https://www.electrolux.se/services/eml/asset/fe80a43d-0b1c-4...

Your experience with stoves has been vastly different than mine.

>flat surface with a cast iron disk protruding for each hot surface.

Never seen a design like that.

Given those URLs maybe it's a country thing? Are you in the USA?

> Are you in the USA?

Sweden.

That's what I figured. Yeah, no wonder your experience is different.

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