Quote Originally Posted by Giselle View Post

Back to baking, ummmm stupid question. Can somebody explain the difference between electric and gas oven? I'm not even sure which one we have. I'm pretty sure it's gas. Maybe that's why I can't bake

Not a stupid question, like I said, I'm not sure what the oven burners we had in Sweden were even made out of, lol.


Electric ranges usually have coils that heat up for the stove top, and in the oven they have the same type of material for the heating elements, but they are not in coils/circles.
Here's a hot burner:


This is the oven heating element:


Many stoves/ranges now come with glass cooktops, so the surface of the stove is smooth, and the coils are underneath the glass cook top.

Glass top range:



Gas stoves have open flame burners. They have these "grates" that go over top of the gas element, like a grill top you might have outside, and your pots on on top of that (not like on an electric element where your pot goes directly on it).

Gas range here also has a griddle built in on the top for making pancakes and stuff (very cool!)


The oven element for gas ranges actually has open flame as well. This is what the top element looks like in a gas oven:


Normally the bottom gas element is below the "floor" of the oven, and you have vents where the heat and flames can come out by the sides.
I think this is from the bottom... it is under the base/floor of the oven, but the flames heat up and come that heat comes through in the open areas on the floor of the oven: