Is it always possible to visually determine if it's gas or electic stove?
I saw stoves with flat glass-like surface and there red glowing circles inside when they're on. Are those a gas stoves? Are there gas stoves with fire inside or those flat stoves are all electric?
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Gas stoves will always have "open" heating elements because the gas requires oxygen in order to burn and generate heat. Anytime you see a closed, glassed-over heating element, the heat is electric in source. However without more information about the design of the stove, it can't really be determined whether the heat is a traditional radiant heat element or an induction element (in which case the red glow may be cosmetic, generated only by lights to indicate that the burner is on).
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