Cooking with gas in a leather chair
Am I the only one in the world who hates cooking with gas? I’ve read that once you cook with gas, you’ll never go back to electric. This has proved to be not true with me. Someone has to give me reasons why gas is better. Reasons other than but gas is cheaper than electric. With electric, you have a solid burner of hot surface. Okay, maybe not solid, but it reaches farther than a ring of fire. The ring of fire only hits the bottom of the pan where fire actually is. So, you have a ring of fire that goes around 6 inches, but it doesn’t touch anything inside that 6 inches. With an electric burner that is 6 inches, everything inside that 6 inches touches the pot. In my eye, you have a more even cooking surface. With electric, you can turn the burner off but leave the pan on there to keep warm. With gas, you turn off the fire and you’re done. If you want to be done with electric, you can move the pot off the burner but if you want to keep it warm with gas, you have to leave the fire on. And it just takes a helluva lot longer to bring a big pot of water to a boil with gas. (How much cheaper is it if takes twice as long?) That’s because of that ring of fire thing. I’ve heard people say it’s easy to touch a hot burner because you don’t see it’s on. Hello, have you ever touched the grill over the fire even though the fire was off? That’s not exactly cold. And I’ve never once said omg I hate the way electric smells when you turn on the oven. Tell me where my thinking is flawed.
Something else that I seem to be different than everyone else. I hate leather. Oh, it’s fine for purses and knitting bags and shoes. But car seats and office chairs and sofas? I hate it. It’s either freezing or you stick to it from sweat. Or both. It can start out freezing, then your ass warms it up and you start sweating. This is all really fine with me. Leather seating is more expensive so I’m more than happy to have a car with cloth seats and a cloth sofa. My husband, however, loves leather. I don’t get it. Well, I get it but I don’t like what I get. Leather does tend to be more expensive, therefore if you have leather you appear more.. status quo? He says he likes the feel of it better. And I do get the part where the cat hair doesn’t get stuck on the back of the seat as easily, meaning he doesn’t sneeze so much. (He is SO allergic to the cats. They were part of the package so he deals but I won’t be able to get any more in the future.) But how can a man who can never get cool enough like to sit on something that makes you hot, where I can never get warm enough and I hate to sit on that crap. I let him talk me into a leather office chair because it’s nicer and I’ve hated this damn chair ever since. We now have leather seating, and I have a sheet over it so I don’t stick to it while he seems surprised that it feels warm to me.
Things I love include my Dyson (mine is purple and red!), many different flowers, and Cool Whip. Oh, and yarn. Can’t forget the yarn.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I hate all cooking, so the burner makes no difference to me
I had electric, moved to gas. Hated the gas at first, then moved back to electric, and wanted back the gas. I think i just like to be difficult!
I love my Dyson too. It’s the only vacuum that gets all the damn rabbit hair.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I have recently been forced to use an electric burner and I like it more, as well, for all those reasons. I will never be able to have gas again because my husband has no sense of smell. Yeah, add that to the list. When you turn gas down low, sometimes the flame goes out. Then you smell it, unless you’re my darling love. Then you just leave the pot there and wonder why you’re dizzy an hour later.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
And I thought I was the only one that hated those 2 things. Sounds like our husbands could be related! He loves leather chairs, I freeze or stick to them. He swears food cooks faster on gas, I say no way. Yup, I’m with you.
Sheri in GA
August 28th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I must admit, I love gas and I love leather…nice, supple leather. Where we live, the electricity goes out often. Often meaning in the dead of winter during a blizzard. So, without gas, we wouldn’t have warm food, water from melted snow, or the little bit of heat it produces. As far as the leather, I am like your DH, allergies abound. With leather, you can wipe it down and TADA, no dust or pollen. And, Cool Whip is one that I adore! It didn’t get put in my awful food post because it is so gooooood! That, and it makes the Jello go down easier.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:53 am
We’re considering putting in a gas stove (gas for the range, electric for the oven), but now I’m wondering if that’s the best idea. I haven’t cooked much with gas, so I don’t know which I like better.
But, I do love my leather sofa. It always looks cleaner than my old cloth one and the pet hair thing is an advantage. I like the way it looks, too. Plus we got really comfy cushions when we bought it, so we kind of sink down just a bit when we sit down. Nice!
August 29th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Leather seats suck. When we bought our cars, we asked for cloth seats and they seemed to think we were off our rockers. We were like, look, we have a dog that likes to ride and the last thing we want is to have the leather all scratched and gouged up. Plus it’s hot and sticky. Bleh.
Weird, I love yarn, too!
August 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I’m totally enamoured with my dyson. Yellow/Pewter canister. And the man uses it cuz it looks like an engine.