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.
so there’s a chef…
named “Chamussy”…
talking about flexibility…
I use an induction stove top. It gets hot faster than gas.
The induction stove top i had at my last apartment was one of my favorites because of its ease to clean. It functioned really well, but it was also like wiping down any other flat surface. With my current gas stove top i need to pull all the grates off, dismantle the burners, scrub in hard to reach places that seem to attract food… It’s honestly a miserable chore.
I’d love one but would also be constantly terrified of breaking the top when cooking
I’ve never had a problem, nor have I ever heard of this issue. Although to be fair I haven’t looked into it.
My current place has a glass electric cooktop (please let me upgrade to induction) and I was worried about it to but I’ve had no issue. Just don’t be slamming things around I guess. I think you’d have to be pretty crazily just like dropping cast iron pans on it or get unlucky.
Unlucky is my fear haha.
Big pro for them is also easier to clean if you don’t have to remove parts when cleaning
My boomer parents always insisted on having gas stoves. They also never fucking cooked lmao
Yeah, there are so many people where the extent of their cooking is boxed mac & cheese, but they insist they NEED a gas stove. I grew up with gas until college, then had electric until recently (sellers left their appliances). The main difference is expectations, most people who only know gas, only know how their pots/pans react to a flame, but try cooking on it more than one time and its pretty easy to adjust.
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.
i’ve seen an induction wok, the fancy part is bowled up instead of flat so the wok can still do wok things
i dunno, here’s the Technology Connections video. there’s multiple models, i’m sure it varies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJKxUCKOBg
My partner insisted on a gas stove despite my protests in our last two places because of the “control”. The few times we used electric or induction cookers on vacation she would get really frustrated.
Cut to our current place that just came with an electric cooker with no option for gas. A few months in and she’s got no complaints and even comments on how it’s not that different once you get used to it.
The learning curve is real, and some people will push back at first, but if forced to, I’m pretty sure every single person can figure out cooking just as well with electric.
