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I got an induction maybe 10 years ago or so. It is amazing how fast I can boil water or just get going in general. Lovely tech
I think that electric cooking speed is only limited by how much power you can draw from your wiring. And if you have good wiring, cooking speeds can be extremely fast. It's a bit like with cars, where people get excited about having a lot of HP (horse power) where idk (i'm not a car expert) sth like 100 HP is considered "crazy good" and everybody wants to have it (that's combustion engine cars). Then, an electric vehicle comes across the corner (and it's not even an expensive EV, just a cheap one) and it easily has 700 HP. Like, the acceleration power is immense, it's enormous. EVs accelerate crazy fast, and it would actually be dangerously powerful if they didn't have software control to throttle the maximum engine power.
Suddenly, everybody stopped talking about HP. All these car-crazy friends i had when i was in school, the moment EVs appeared on the stage, they stopped being impressed by HP.
The same is with electric appliances like cooking stoves. They can be crazy fast and there's no upper limit on power if you get good wiring. It's only limited by the device so you don't accidentally burn your food all the time.
I think that with gas flames, the flames are more-or-less always the same size, while for electric cooking, there's a much greater range in heating power, both up and down. You can also have very small, very gentle heating, that is difficult to get with gas.