SteveB wrote:

I live in a rural area currently with electric only. No pun intended.
There are rumors of nat. gas coming soon, but who knows when. We want a gas
stove. Am considering propane. I have a propane stove at the cabin and it
works fine. Heats fast, bakes good. We don't use it a lot, not nearly as
much as we would at the primary house.

For those who have/have had both propane and natural gas, is it worth it to
wait for the natural gas, or just do the propane thing. And then convert
when it gets there if we choose to?

I certainly like propane for grilling, but can't compare as I have never
used nat. for outdoor cooking. Is there a big difference in that?

Steve

LP vs. Nat gas, effectively no difference, and cheap and easy to switch
a stove between them.

As for waiting, if it's just the stove you want, by all means get it,
set it for propane, and feed it from an ordinary purchased 100# LP tank.
If you aren't running the furnace, hot water, gas dryer, etc. your LP
use will be very low.

I have a dual fuel stove with 5 gas burners that runs from an ordinary
20# LP tank outside. I'm single, but I do like to cook so the stove gets
plenty of use and I have to swap the 20# tank every 8+ months. Unless
you have a huge family, it's highly unlikely you'd have to fill a 100#
tank more than once a year, you can fill it anywhere, and you aren't
paying rental on a huge LP tank you don't need.

If / when Nat. gas becomes available, you can hookup if you decide the
economics and the monthly service charge warrant it. If you still only
have a gas stove, and have no need to run anything else gas, I expect
the economics will show that just filling the LP tank once a year and
not paying any service charges is a better deal.