They’ve got a quite unusual stove that’s got a large battery in it so that it can operate when the power is off, and doesn’t need the installation of a 240v power connection. This avoids the cost of an electrical retrofit of old apartment buildings, which otherwise costs far more.
If you’ve already got your home wired for 240v, you can get an induction stove for far less.
These battery-equipped stoves are expensive right now because they’re being made in quite small numbers. The parts needed are coming down in price quite rapidly, so I expect to see them sold in the $2000/unit price range within a few years.
~~Sure, but you write off the adjustments and coping mechanisms you learned to mitigate the disadvantages of resistive heating as if those are a forgone conclusion. That borders on a disingenuous argument.
Summary to my eyes: Ackshully, resistive is better if you’re smart about it and anyone who doesn’t think this way is just not as smart as me…~~
Edit: sorry this was replied to wrong person and makes no sense
I wrote my personal reasons for preferring resistive over gas, despite the need to learn how to use it, which I prefer due to my own perceived negatives of gas. I actually live in a house with a gas stove right now, and I’m seriously considering having the kitchen wired for 240v someday just so I can install a resistive stove, since most of the time I use a portable induction cooktop in preference to using the gas stove. I also didn’t even get into the environmental aspect of gas stoves, which is another reason I don’t like to use them.
Calling that disingenuous and cope is… Certainly an interesting viewpoint. It would be similar to suggesting that anyone who prefers or speaks of the merits of bicycles over tricycles is disingenuous and coping due to bicycles requiring a learning period to effectively ride them, where as tricycles have no learning period (despite coming with their own advantages and disadvantages).
My apologies, I think I actually responded to the wrong person, I think I meant to direct that at the top parent comment of this thread that claimed favoring gas was always from a place of condescension. I think I only learned about the severity of the air pollution in recent years.
Sorry again, what I wrote makes no sense to me as a response to what you said.