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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idk I gotta say I have no scientific basis for this but there’s just something that feels different about cooking on an open flame.

Like for example I just could not imagine cooking with a wok or making kebabs on anything but actual fire.

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Fire is fun. But I think I’m convinced easily ultimately… Indoor should be induction unless you absolutely have no compatible cookware.

Outdoors??? Gimme the grill with charcoal. Fuck gas then to actually. Lemme burn some wood

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Same. All of my “professional” experience has been on industrial gas tops. There’s something about an open flame that get me going

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i’ve seen an induction wok, the fancy part is bowled up instead of flat so the wok can still do wok things

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How well did it maintain heat as elements were added?

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i dunno, here’s the Technology Connections video. there’s multiple models, i’m sure it varies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJKxUCKOBg

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