A good oven is incredibly important in any household; it helps you make a perfect breakfast, prepare a surprise meal for your partner and even bake that special birthday cake! Ensuring your home has an oven that delivers a good performance as well as a sleek and stylish look has never been easier with our fantastic range of modern kitchen appliances.

However, many people find themselves stuck when it comes to choosing between gas and electric cookers; while both are certainly able to deliver the same end result, there are factors that are exclusive to each of them that should be considered before settling on any model.

Here, we’ll be taking a look at the benefits of owning both gas and electric cookers to help you decide which model is best for you and your home!

Gas Cookers

Pros

Gas cookers are generally considered to be the cheapest to run of the two. While electric cookers use fewer units of energy, electricity costs more per-unit and therefore will end up costing the user more when compared to an electric oven.

In addition, gas cookers allow the user to gain access to instant heat at the click of a button or the turn of a dial, making them the preferred choice for owners who regularly cook things in a rush.

If you use the oven, grill and hob for about 80 minutes a day for a year, an electric cooker will cost about £53 to run; a gas cooker will only cost £16, giving you an annual saving of £37, or £222 over the lifetime of your cooker

Cons

On the other hand however, Gas Cookers arguably have a couple of downsides too; whether or not these points would be a huge issue to the owner is simply a matter of personal preference.

For example, Gas Cookers can be said to have uneven oven temperatures. Most gas ovens generally don’t have fans built-in, which makes it harder for the heat to circulate; this means that a gas oven will usually be hotter at the top than at the bottom.

Gas cookers also need to be professionally installed by a ‘GasSafe’ registered engineer.

Electric Cookers

Pros

Where Gas Ovens were unable to provide a more reliable, even temperature, electric ovens are much more successful in this area. Electric Ovens generally come with a fan which spreads the heat right around the cavity.

You can cook with a combination of heat from the top and the bottom of the oven, the grill and fan in an electric multi-function oven. Also, an electric cooker’s ceramic hobs are easier to wipe clean than the hobs and metal risers on a gas cooker.

Cons

As we learned above, the cost of running an electric cooker is generally more expensive than running a gas cooker, and each unit of electricity will cost you more than each unit of gas.

For owners who are in a rush to cook something on the hob, electric cookers may become frustrating; for example if your pan is bigger than the hob ring, it will take longer to heat up with electricity than with gas.

So, there we have our ‘clash of the cookers’! Hopefully from this weigh-in you will have gotten a better understanding of which cooker is right for your and your home.