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Hey gas stove snobs, hope the garbage toxic air filling your homes is worth it!

"Two studies out in May added to that research with a closer look at one gas in particular: nitrogen oxide, a building block for smog, that is harmful even in short spurts and at lower levels. And in homes with gas stoves, the concentration of nitrogen dioxide is anywhere between 50 to 400 percent higher than homes with electric stoves."

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/06/gas-industry-influencers-stoves/

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Jac 2y ago

How do you think the air quality is in your car while you’re sitting in traffic? Obsess over the splinter, watch out for that log!

Marks 2y ago

Yeah but have you seen how nice it looks in stainless steel?

Omekau 2y ago

Just seems like more of the “energy consumption is bad” narrative to me. Who knows maybe it’s coming from a good place but it’s hard not to see parallels with California’s fetishization of electric vehicles.

I’ll keep cooking with gas.

Symbiolosopher 2y ago

If it needs to be cooked, it's not food.

nen 2y ago

so gas stove owners should ventilate the room more – noted!

don’t know about America, but here in Russia i pay ten times less for using gas stove over the electric one.

my choice wasn’t mush affected by the prices but the fact that some of my national food can’t be cooked on electric stove: e.g. for kholodets you need to boil meat for 10 hours. my auntie had an electric stove cracked while cooking compote (can’t tell bc of hot water or spilled sugar), and it takes about an hour.

Andrew 2y ago

Not sure about for stoves, but gas is definitely cheaper for heating in the US compared to electric heating, unless it's electric heat pump heating which is super efficient.

Oh interesting, if kholodets need meat boiled for that long, can the meat be put in a slow cooker instead?

123vier 2y ago

Switched to gas last year, a) to be able to cook for my family even when there's a blackout, b) because cooking experience is so much better c) reduces my energy bill. Yep, need to care about ventilation, that's what common sense and the manual says anyway :) ...good we have a study now confirming this ;-)