The obvious benefit to a gas cooktop is that you’ll always be able to cook food, even in a power outage. Gas cooktops offer instant controllable heat (most professional chefs use gas) are very affordable and you can cook using any type of pot or pan on this cooktop surface. The downside is that if you are not connected to mains gas, you’ll have the hassle of bottled gas supply, and these cooktops are more difficult to clean than induction or ceramic cooktops.

Induction cooktops, while more expensive to buy, offer the fastest, most precise heat. They are safer to use, more energy efficient than gas and because the cooking zones never gets hot, they are really easy to clean. However you won’t be able to use these cooktops in a power outage and you will have to make sure your pots and pans are compatible with induction cooktops.