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https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-convinced-americans-to-love-gas-stoves/

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.

https://archive.ph/Aiyd2

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.

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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just gotta say, all the induction stoves I've tried have been completely useles on ranges 1-5, had a mild effect on 6 almost medium heat on 7, more than medium heat on 8 and then 9 is just more 8 and 10 is a way to boil water faster than my electric water boiler.
Also whoever it is that designs stovetops with touchscreen needs to go to the gulag I fucking hate them. And whoever decided to add a feature to the last induction stove I had where it would beep when it was turned on and nothing was on it... straight to jail.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Induction is great for boiling water but when I have to be stirring something around and shaking the pan I dont want to have to worry about breaking the glass cooktop.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Wait what's this about breaking the glass with boiling water?

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

If you smash your pan down into some glass it can break. But like just don't drop a pan full of water half a foot onto your stove. just put it down like a normal person.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I know that, it just sounded like boiling water might do something that would break the glass

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Ya no nothing besides water being heavy would increase breakage potential.

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