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.

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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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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I've had both over the last few years, and while the cooking experience is not all that different tbh, the one thing that bugs me about my current glass-top electric stove is that the surface is so flat that my ever-so-slightly warped carbon steel pan doesn't sit flat and rocks all over the place and doesn't heat evenly. I've basically been unable to use it since moving here, and it's my favorite pan. :(

But if I had my choice, I'd ofc go induction, but between the other two I'd still go electric, just for the fumes alone. But I'll probably be way less hot on the idea of glass-tops in the future, that's for sure.

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Induction ranges are not what most people think of have when they say “electric stoves.”

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I cook on a slab of enriched uranium-235 and I'm faster than all of you losers

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can it handle crooked cookware though? Also I upvoted all three of your posts please do not delete them

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Toastify is, as a matter of fact, not awesome.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I for one, refuse to ignite my flambe with a torch like a peasant! My gas range does it for me and I get to feel like mother fucking Gordon Ramsay!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never used induction, is it that bad?

[–] Real_User@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's fine. It doesn't change temp instantly like gas does but how often do you really need that?

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

When I cook. I use induction and it's fine but it'd be nice to not have that be an issue.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

what-time-is-it

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I open with a "who need they Chamussy ate" joke and y'all turn it into a struggle session, shaking my smdh.

It's a tiny bit treat-brained to want a methane pipe going into each individual housing unit for greater ease in small-batch cooking. But if a gas stove is really what you want, I don't see why that can't be solved with

Bwaaa

methane and methane accessories.

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