Surveys showed that most people had no preference for gas water heaters and furnaces over electric ones. So the gas companies found a different appliance to focus on. For decades, sleek industry campaigns have portrayed gas stoves […] as a coveted symbol of class and sophistication
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The sales pitches worked. The prevalence of gas stoves in new single-family American homes climbed from less than 30 percent during the 1970s to about 50 percent in 2019.
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Beginning in the 1990s, the industry faced a new challenge: mounting evidence that burning gas indoors can contribute to serious health problems. […]
Cooking is the No. 1 way you’re polluting your home.
You have more control over temperature on an induction cooktop than you have with a gas cooktop, but there is a learning curve. Samsung induction cooktops show a blue “virtual flame”, which can help a new user visualize the amount of heat going to the pan.
Where I live electricity is rationed, gass is not. I can afford to cook with gas. If I were to use electricity I would exceed the allowed usage and they would charge insane fees.
Texas?
Mexico.
I have a CO2 monitor (which is probably picking up NOx too, it’s not expensive enough to be selective) and can literally watch the air quality get worse as I use the gas stove or range. I’ve never lived in an apartment with a functioning range hood. I’d like to try induction. I watched a Technology Connections video saying that raw power delivery, e.g. boiling water, is faster.
Also, a quirk of how gas works in Chicago is that you pay a flat hookup fee of ~$30 a month, and a fee per therm for consumption. Cooking uses so little gas that the consumption part of my bill is pennies. If I had an induction stove, and if I had an inefficient electric furnace instead of gas, I’d probably still save $25 a month.
The gas stove thing is so wild to me. I grew up using them exclusively, but the first time I cooked on an electric stove it was exactly the same except ten thousand times faster and easier to clean. I can’t imagine ever going back, I might as well get a wood burning stove and live in a log cabin or some shit if I’m gonna use gas again.
And it’s not that I don’t appreciate other cooking methods - I grill with lump charcoal whenever I get the chance - but damn for daily cooking glass is class.
some of these stove preference comments are pretty heated 🥁
Excellent long-ish video: https://youtu.be/eUywI8YGy0Y
He has a follow up about induction woks. The short: Induction is just as good as if not better then gas for actually moving heat from the stovetop to your food.
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Gas stoves never really got popular where I live. Been cooking on a electric stove all my life, not induction. Have had to use a gas stove in cabin conditions and the chance of accidentally leaving the gas on and such always freaks me out. Also I dislike having to fiddle with the flame, electric is far more predictable.
Have raised a family aka cooked a lot for a few decades with an old school electric stove just fine, have also worked in kitchens and bakeries that had similar stoves. Very much a cooking person myself.
I think it’s just what you get used to.
Induction ranges are not what most people think of have when they say “electric stoves.”
I cook on a slab of enriched uranium-235 and I’m faster than all of you losers
Can it handle crooked cookware though? Also I upvoted all three of your posts please do not delete them
Toastify is, as a matter of fact, not awesome.
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It was impossible to sear on my old electric stove. If there was a way to have controllable fire heat without gas, I’d use it.
I prefer gas, apparently that choice wasn’t as independent as I thought
I’ve never used induction, is it that bad?
No, it’s fine. It doesn’t change temp instantly like gas does but how often do you really need that?
When I cook. I use induction and it’s fine but it’d be nice to not have that be an issue.
Excellent long-ish video: https://youtu.be/eUywI8YGy0Y
He has a follow up about induction woks. The short: Induction is just as good as if not better then gas for actually moving heat from the stovetop to your food.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: