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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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There's an unspoken racial element to the removal of gas stoves.
If you need to cook with a wok for 15 minutes or char some peppers, you're destroying the environment. But if you need to run an electric oven for an hour to bake a pie or casserole and create 10x the carbon footprint, you're saving the environment.
And no, woks don't work as well on induction, unless you have those spherical induction stoves that aren't available outside of China. And an oven broiler is no where as good for charring peppers.
Edit: Love it when people who don't even own a wok will try to explain your own ethnic cuisine to you, whitewash the kitchen, and then pretend to be concerned about your health when it's always been about control.
I'm from Hong Kong, which statistically has the longest lifespan in the world. We use gas stoves just fine. Stop pretending that it's anything other than the lack of universal healthcare that's killing you.
Why do people act like not using a gas powered stove is akin to stripping away some fundamental right?
I grew up in a part of the world where electric stoves are the vast vast majority and have been since the introduction of electricity. We cook just fine. Chill.
Wanna know where this cruel, backwards part of the world is? It's fucking Tennessee.
Because change is bad.
I'm not (just) being snarky. People get defensive when something important to them changes, even if the change is for the better.
And food, and cooking food, is extremely important to most people.