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.
Love how everytime something is discussed (specially bike lanes) all Alaskans came to argue that it's actually a bad idea because of the 365 days of ice storm they had to live with.
And I love how if somebody says "actually we lose power into winter storms so a gas stove is handy so i can cook food for my family when we lose power" the reaction form all my friendly comrades is to call it a skill issue and make outlandish assumptions like I live in Alaska lol.
The best part is that a gasoline generator would be a better solution all around. Powers your refrigerator, charges your devices, and can power an electric stove (yes, at 240 volts). And then when you don't need it, you can put it away and not worry about carbon monoxide and carbon particulate in your living space.
If you live in an apartment and can't use a generator, then you live somewhere dense enough that you can get takeout.
We literally have a gas generator. A large one for an individual house. It powers our water heater furnace and the outlets and lights in the kitchen (not our fridge since if thenpower goes out in thenwinter we can moce stuff outnto the porch. If it also had to power the stove we we'd have to eliminate one of those other things or spend 20k on a permanently installed generac.