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omg, is this for real? weird how recent conspiracy rumbling about gvmnt taking away gas stoves may have been covering for a real conspiracy. First I've read about benzene in stove fumes. Like cooking w/gas

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (27 children)

I had gas stoves most of my life. Several years back I had an apt with a nice flat top electric and I liked it. Fast forward a couple years and my current place has a gas stove again. I hate it now and I miss the electric.

It was reliable. It didn't smell or leave combustion byproducts in the air. I don't have to worry about making the house explode if a burner is bumped on.

The thing I notice the most is it's wasteful. On the electric the handles of my pots were never too hot to touch. Gas stove, so much heat is lost around the pot. The handles are always hot and the above range microwave handle gets hot too. (I am using the appropriate sized burner for the pot size.)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (9 children)

This article was posted on another community yesterday. Most of the comments were about how awesome gas is and how crappy electric is.

In my adult life I'd always had electric stoves, and they were fine. Two years ago I bought a house with a gas stove and I was so excited because I love cooking and it's supposed to be the best.

I fucking hated it. There's so many cons to gas stoves that people never talk about and I don't get it.

The waste heat is insane. Your pan and pot handles get hot. You can't leave utensils in the pot or pan, they will burn. It directly heats and humidifies the air in your kitchen. It's finicky on low heat and you can sometimes have a burner go out.

And these are just ways that gas sucks to use. I'm not even talking about health impacts.

We switched to induction and it's definitely the best. But I'd rather have resistive electric than gas.

One benefit of electric and induction that's a bit subtler: you can smell what you're cooking better. With gas, there are all these hot gasses coming up around your pan that make smelling things hard.

[–] Stabbitha 2 points 1 year ago

The only time I ever enjoyed cooking with gas was when I was doing it professionally. They always seemed sketchy to me in a home kitchen where you don't have a ventilation system than can fully cycle the air in less than a minute. My only complaint with my current glass-top electric is it's only got 1 big burner.

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