Colorado now requires health warning labels on gas stoves | The state is the first to put labels on the appliances pointing consumers to evidence about the harms of cooking with gas.
Colorado now requires health warning labels on gas stoves | The state is the first to put labels on the appliances pointing consumers to evidence about the harms of cooking with gas.
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Colorado now requires health warning labels on gas stoves
If you've ever cooked on one, you'll know that gas stoves are far superior to electric.
The issue here isn't the stove, but the ventilation of the home. It's not hard to properly install a range hood and roof vent for your kitchen, along with a passive inlet for airflow(I've done this twice and I'm no expert at construction).
Humans have been cooking with fire for a bloody long time, and we've gotten very good at making it safe. I'd wager that this is just energy companies lobbying against gas, as they can make more money burning coal/oil to power electric stoves.
Induction is far superior to gas which is far superior to electric.
Gas is problematic for a lot of reasons:
Gas has some benefits to induction, but if it was invented today very few people would use it because it's so much worse than induction.
This comment isn't to say "people who use gas are bad or in danger", it's just saying at the technical level and from a societal perspective there's no meaningful reason to use gas as your main heating element's source of power.
You forgot that the induction glass top doesn’t get as hot because the heating happens in the pan. It’s safer if you have children and it is much easier to clean than gas or resistive electric.
Also there’s no open flame in your house, your kitchen rag won’t catch on fire by mistake.
Key reasons people choose the stoves they choose:
My induction stove was over $1,000. I wouldn't trade it for anything, but yeah.
Compared to $300 to $500 for electric and $500 to $700 for gas (plus gas line installation if you don't have it.)
I have seen some good points for induction in this thread but I can't see how it could better for the enviroment, in places without renewable energy.
As I stated in another comment: the grid of the area I live is mainly powered by coal. That power plant consumes a train and a half of coal every day; besides the released carbon, coal power also releases radioactive isotopes into the surrounding area - far more of a radiation hazard than modern nuclear power.
My home came with both power and gas hookups in the kitchen, but the wiring is... Something... And would cost a ton to redo - I don't even live in too poor of an area, so I can only image how bad other homes could be.
Buying a gas stove and installing proper ventilation(also none in the home when purchased) was much cheaper than hiring an electrician and buying an induction stove.
If you like induction and live in an area with a mostly-renewable power grid - more power to you.
You do make a good point about gas line safety and maintenance - something I'll need to look into, for my area.
You sound like someone who hasn’t used a good modern induction stove. They have the same kind of fast control as a gas stove, lots of heat output, waste less energy so they dont heat up your kitchen as much, and are easier to clean.
Induction is a game changer. I can boil water faster than the microwave. Seriously.
You've obviously never cooked on induction stoves.
Ceramic stoves and other old electric stoves were a nightmare, that's true, slow to heat up, stays hot too long, nearly impossible to regulate.
But induction is so much better, very quick to heat up, easy to regulate. No exhaust fumes or other noxious gases. Only heats up the part of the pan that needs heating up (the bottom). No risk of fire. Very easy to clean.
Having to resort to conspiracy theories is a good indication you don't have an argument.
Especially when your theory is that big coal is trying to ween Americans of natural gas.
Of all the things that are a real problem in this world, we are going after gas stoves?!
I keep seeing this and it feels very much orchestrated. Next, we will get the people who love their induction cooktops yapping about how they are far superior. Unless you have an aluminum pan. Or if its not the right size. You know, things that aren't issues on normal cooktops.
New construction in Vancouver is all about going all-electric by removing the need gas furnaces by installing heat pumps, and removing the need for gas stoves with better cooking tech (though gas stoves aren't outlawed).
Water heating and space heating are the two largest energy uses on the residential level. Removing the need for gas pipes in most homes reduces methane leakage and improves the lives of residents.
Yea, I don't understand why people are so rabid against gas all of a sudden. It seems like an odd hill to die on, with the current geopolitical issues.
From my own experience, moving from an area with only electric heat/stoves: gas is far cheaper, and safer(have you seen the dreadful electrical work in cheaper homes?) - with good ventilation. Not to mention that the electricity for my area comes from a coal plant...
Cook with what you want: gas, induction, a charcoal grill; idc.
The opposite is true actually with the gas companies having been behind the Cooking with Gas-campaign in order to make sure that they keep getting gas line installations in place.
Indoor combustion is still very much detrimental for health, trying to claim otherwise is quite frankly absurd.
It's my understanding that the only benefit gas stoves have over electric is that they are cheaper to operate.
this tells me someone else does your cooking for you 😝