Propane or Electric Stove

propane, dumping the electric was the best kitchen up grade we ever did,

Also living in the country, quite rural, I put in a wood/coal combination furnace in after the fuel oil supplier asked if I wanted to start paying on a budget of $3200 and that was in April. Because I live out far enough that I've had power go out for up to a week, electric I see as a bad idea. I run only the cook stove and hot water tank on l.p. . I plumbed in an old hot water tank with the insulation stripped and painted black as a preheated tank of water sitting by my furnace. In the winter once the furnace is up for the season I go through sometimes 2 #100 tanks per season and spend $89 per #100 tank. My furnace works fine with or without electricity.

The last time I checked it cost $3.75 a gallon to bring a tank into town and fill it, plus gas to go to town. The price of propane delivered to your house is about $2 a gallon and should go down further this summer.

You can bring tanks with a capacity of 100 pounds or less to town for refill. Tanks that hold 100 gallons or more are stationary and the propane supplier comes to your house to fill it. Get the biggest tank you can afford. It's cheaper to fill and an excellent prep.

Propane all the way. The little bit that a stove uses you will never notice the price of the gas. When canning gas is a lot nicer also. Once the canner is up to pressure just set and forget and you don't have to take the canner off the burner when it is done. There is my .02.

Propane for sure. Cook stoves use very little propane as compared to house furnaces.
And you can find older stoves that use a pilot light for the oven. I have one myself, it is great.

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I'm another vote for gas stove. I can't stand an electric one and that was the first thing to go in the couple of houses that I have bought that had them.

I bought my own 100# tanks at the last house(had my own regulator) and had to take them to get filled. Not too bad to move when they're empty, but when full, ugh.

When I bought this house I had the propane company come out and do the installation because I didn't have an extra regulator. I can't remember the cost for the install, but it was fairly cheap(less than $200) and was well worth it not to have to drag tanks around.

I average one 100# tank every nine months.

check to see if natural gas piping is coming to the area, most rural areas will have it soon, in the meantime use either..i prefer propane..you could get a small tank ..say 100 # ..in the meantime.

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I am so glad to find this topic discussed. I have cooked with gas for over 30 years and would hate to go back to electric. Currently, we have natural gas for all appliances and I was wondering about the issues with propane when we move on our land. Our land is located in an area where electricity could be out for days during snow or ice. So many great responses explaining the benefits of propane.

lonelytree,

I have one of the new ovens - gas on top and electric oven. After cooking with this for a year, I actually prefer the electric oven to a gas oven.

You might want to consider Induction.

Have always cooked with gas. We were are building our home in the country, and facing the same decision as you. Induction cooks even more efficiently (faster) than gas, and has the same on/off characteristics. Plus it's safer than an open flame or a cook top that stays hot after you turn it off.

We wanted to try it first, so we bought a small NuWave2 portable unit from Kohls (using a 30% off coupon is was about $40). Now I prefer it to gas. We're putting Induction into our new home.