Cooking with gas

Gas is the overwhelming choice of professional chefs, and it's easy to see why. With gas, the heat is more accurate and better controlled; temperature changes are instantaneous.

Although you might spend less time in the kitchen than a professional chef, you'll still appreciate the advantages of cooking with gas.

Did you know that cooking in a gas oven helps preserve the moisture in your food? The natural convection action of a gas oven seals in moisture as it cooks the food from the outside in.

The addition of a wok burner will bring out the gourmet in you. Gas cooktops are more suitable for specialty cooking such as woks because they use an open flame, so you can better observe the flame and control your results.

The design, innovation and efficiency of gas cooktops and ovens have improved dramatically over the past years. For example, pilotless ignitions have eliminated the need for a constant pilot light and can save as much as 50 percent in energy use.

Modern gas products feature self-cleaning ovens, sealed surface burners and upswept cooktops for easy cleaning.

But gas provides one other important advantage. Changing from electric to gas cooking can save around half a tonne of greenhouse emissions per household each year.

The advantages of cooking with gas are clear.