I grew up with both gas and electric, and I also lived in Germany and used induction for a time. I find gas to be a problem in warmer months, because so much heat is lost around the sides of the pan, heating up your house, and forcing your air con to work even harder. This doesn't make sense at all to me, using one machine to cool the house, while another one unintentionally heats it and puts the two at odds. I never noticed the electric burners heating up the house in that way, the pot or pan made contact with the coil, and there was no air moving around it, the way that it does with gas. So, it all seemed to be absorbed by the pan. I've never seen better outcomes in the food I've made either, and I'm a fairly serious baker. And of course, if you have solar, you only have the one time carbon footprint of the solar panel being manufactured.
Incidentally, when I move into a homestead type situation, I'll probably have an indoor and outdoor kitchen, so that I can mostly cook outdoors in the summer when I want to use a cooktop or oven, and use things like the microwave inside the house.
We've got to be thinking of ways to use less energy. The climate situation is dire and we don't have much time left. I'd rather be inconvenienced now and live another 40 years, than insist on all of my comforts and die in a flood, heatwave, fire, another pandemic, etc., all of which become more and more severe the worse we allow things to get.
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