A Battle of the Flames: Induction Cooking vs Natural Gas

Kitchens are the home of cooking within your home. Having the right appliances in your kitchen is essential to cooking your favourite meals and family recipes. Knowing whether to have an Induction or Natural Gas cooker is another major factor in getting the perfect cook on your dishes. Induction and Natural Gas cooking requires you to put cookware on the stove/ hob to transfer the heat to cook your food. 

So why does it matter which one you have in your home? Well, this is, as always your personal preference. Although it’s good to know the differences and if one can suit your home better than the other. For a cook who likes to have better control over the temperature, Natural Gas cooking makes it easier to control the heat level as you can instantly see the change in flame allowing for more visibility with the temperature control. Natural Gas cooking uses a flame to heat the cookware and give the chef a visual representation of the heat they are letting onto the cookware. The more aggressive the flame the hotter the cookware will be. The problem with Natural Gas cooking is that it is less efficient than Induction cooking. 

Where Natural Gas cooking heats cookware through a flame below, Induction cooking heats the cookware directly through electromagnetic energy. This option is more energy efficient than Natural Gas, however, it requires a rhythm to cooking when needing to change temperature. Induction cooking can be faster and safer than Natural Gas, in terms of having no flame burning and no chance of a gas leak. You have to be more aware of the cookware you use when it comes to Induction cooking as some metals have a negative attraction to electromagnetic energy. 

So with the pros and cons, is it a more energy-efficient hob you need? A hob you can better control? One that could be safer? These are the questions you now know the answers to. So is it Induction cooking or Natural Gas?