Can’t it just be Taiwan’s?

Hasn’t China stated that they intend to reclaim Taiwan? Don’t they claim Taiwan as part of their country right now?

My gas stove has one really big burner for when you need extra heat, and one really small burner for super low heat. It’s pretty nifty.

Yes, there are induction stoves.

These use magnets (how do they even work?) to heat the pan directly, instead of heating an element which then conducts heat into the pan.

Since they don’t rely on resistive heating, they can actually be controlled in a much more precise manner. Maybe under the hood this actually involves cycling of the heat, but the result is something that for all intents and purposes “maintains temperature”

You can only use pans made of certain metals, which is the main drawback besides expense. No aluminum

Being cheap is a big part of it. The fact that it’s about as expensive to run gas as it is to run electric makes it make sense to consider gas in the first place

But also, gas is usually a superior cooking medium to any but the most high quality electric cooktops. Gas is instantly responsive, whereas electric heating elements take time to cool off and heat up.
When I was younger living in apartments, I had some really shitty electric stoves. Terrible consistency, hotspots, took forever to heat up and stayed hot for ages.

This same behaviour happens to me, but only once in a while.

I wanted computing to be fun again. IMO XP was the last version of Windows that was actually fun