The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to promote gas stoves. Yes, you read that right! So @AllanaHarkin becomes an induction stove influencer to draw attention to the harmful effects of cooking with natural gas. Featuring Brady Seals of Carbon-Free Buildings Program and Heidi Harmon, Mayor of San Luis Obispo.
This piece was produced by Todd Bieber with Ishan Thakore and edited by Jesse Coane.
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Too over the top. There was no argument that made electric better. Tell me why switching is better.
ReplyUnfortunately, it’s gas stove or no stove around here
ReplyInduction is becoming a thing among cooks in the know. If I could replace my gas stove in my cheap rental apartment I would do it in a heartbeat.
ReplyNothing’s perfect.
ReplyI’ve worked in a lot of restaurants, all gas ranges. The airborne grease particles are probably even worse than the gas pollutants, that is another health warning I would have liked 20 years ago. Also, as much as I think we do need to cut back on the gas stoves, it’s the only way I get hot food in winter when the power goes out.
Replydo you think these gas companies CEOs want to be known as the evil geniuses that drove the human species to extinction,? Their behaviour just doesn’t seem logical otherwise.
ReplyInductions are safer too because they themselves don’t get hot. They only heat the pan which transmits some heat back to the induction plate.
ReplyOkay but will my Saturn Vue you in 2021?!?!
ReplyWith a gas stove it’s more reliable when the power goes out because you can use a match to light it. what are we supposed to do in the case of a power outage? Have no stove to keep warm or cook?
ReplyRun your fan while cooking??
ReplyIf I leave YouTube on auto play Samantha I always end up on some Bill Burr video. lol
ReplyA lot of people just don’t know how to use temp control in their cooking. I know it’s why I hated electric stoves at first
ReplyI need us to also talk about bidets
ReplyI didn’t choose my stove ok ;-; it came with the house
ReplyWhile she’s correct about the emissions from a stove, she conflates gas stove use with ALL gas use in a home to get her 10% of all emissions number. This is disingenuous. I’m an environmentalist and a progressive, but we lose our arguments when we keep using bad arguments.
ReplyIt’s 10%. Sounds like the whole recycling is the answer. 90% is emitted by 5 corporations. 5 , how about maybe get them to stop first. It would solve it fasterer.
ReplyInduction ceramic is the norm here…
ReplyI wanted to get one but they were expensive though
ReplyNatural gas is a fossil fuel. However, electricity has to be generated from something. The previous place I lived, electricity came from coal so gas was the greener option for the planet
ReplyWait, wait, was that a clip in the beginning from the “Let’s Talk Turkey” short???!!!
ReplyHey, just a friendly PSA: Using wood, charcoal, timber… is actually more carcinogenic than just using a stove, so either go electric or keep the stove, do not use the other methods!
ReplyWent all electric to be ready for solar, but our electric company has been caught AstroTurfing, too. Off grid solar on my tiny trailer is my goal!
ReplyThe induction cooker is So great! I can set it to turn off when the recipe says it’ll be done. Then go walk dogs or whank it or whatever and have dinner waiting for me… SEXY!
My stove works whether the electricity is on or not. I can still cook food if my microwave lacks power. I’m cookin’ with gas, baby!
Reply“Is there anything worse than a gas stove” May I introduce you to coal.
Replyinductions stoves can be a problem for people with pacemakers. No leaning over the stove since you need about 2 feet distance from your pacemaker.
ReplyI’m so glad I insisted on all electric everything when we bought our home. Had a bad feeling about gas, lol.
ReplyI bet that is why you have a range hood fan.
ReplyFull Frontal is usually better at satire. They didn’t even resurrect Redi Kilowatt. But in a serious story they wouldn’t have let the solar industry shill get away with that car tailpipe bit. Nor would they have let it slide when Mayor Karen referred to opposition to her reelection as “intimidation tactics”.
ReplyYes, I have been told about how bad, unhealthy, air polluting gas stoves are in all of our homes. I was surprised about that, and researched it and yes, it’s true. stop using gas stoves!
ReplyWhenever I cook, I only cook with good, clean, American nuclear power.
ReplyThat’s my mayor!
Reply“burning gas in our homes is contributing about 10% to our carbon emissions”, to clarify, that is only when you include gas clothes dryers, gas water-heaters, gas furnaces and gas cooking together. Of those, cooking is the LEAST by a large margin. As far as the poisons created from natural gas, all you need is to have your hardware in good working order. If the gas-fuel mix is neutral, then CO and PM2.5 (particulate matter) production from the gas flame alone is nearly non-existent. (Most Particulate Matter created from cooking is the result of heating food regardless of the heat source. When a recipe says to heat your oil until you start to see smoke? That’s your poisonous particulate matter, and yes, it is dangerous. Invest in a good exhaust fan!) Yes, there is the production of NO2, but all that is needed to resolve that is a proper exhaust ventilation system, and being careful to run it any time you run the stovetop. When pushed outdoors, NO2 is not a major concern.
ReplyInduction stovetop cooking is perfectly fine, but it forces you to only use ferrous cookware. And oven-cooking with natural gas has benefits for a lot of cooking in that the combustion of natural gas creates water-vapor, which helps to prevent foods drying while cooking.
Putting an end to natural gas cooking in the home is like putting an end to plastic shopping bags or plastic drinking straws. It’s not a horrible thing to do, but it is far from the long pole in the tent. Throwing out your old gas stove in exchange for electric is going to result in the creation of much more pollution via production then most people will end up saving. If you have gas, make sure it is properly tuned, and turn on the exhaust fan when using it. If you have electric, consider sticking with it, and maybe the few times you really benefit from flame cooking, consider doing it with a propane grill or a turkey-fryer outdoor burner.
Oh and if these numbers frighten you, then you should never be touching charcoal or wood, and absolutely avoid both hot-smoking and cold-smoking. BBQ is cancer. But if you only eat it in moderation, it is an acceptable risk.
Is it just me or is Brady’s hair rockin it compared to Allana’s?
ReplyI wish they sourced what they’re saying here.
ReplySeems dumb to complain about the use of influencers to promote gas stoves and conclude they need influencers to promote induction stoves.
How long until we’re told of health issues originating from induction?
Go, Heidi!!!
ReplyFireplaces have to go. Very few buildings need them. Fireplaces should be banned in new builds and we should incentivize people who have them not to use them.
Fireplaces cause particulate pollution, contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, and harm human health. It better to not use one unless absolutely necessary.
ReplyThere goes a good home made stir fry
ReplyInstead of worrying about gas stoves, maybe this woman should start worrying about her potential for skin cancer. Her face looks awfully red to me.
ReplyWhat are people cooking straight into an open flame with a gas stove? We switched to the induction stove because it came with the house but my husband still manages to char and caramelize our food.
ReplyI’ve always loved the cool blue flame of a gas stove, till now. I use electric on my bbq grill.
ReplyBut I haaaate induction cooking!
ReplyStop burning fossil fuels!!!
ReplySwitch to solar. Switch to electric (including vehicles, etc).
Can we get more info on this topic? So far seems far-fetched especially with comparison to tailpipe (!). Feels like if this was the case no amount of Big Gas money would cover up obvious health issues.
Maybe they (Carbon free activists) felt that saying it’s bad for environment (which is obviously true) just isn’t enough. Saying it’s bad for your health brings more attention to the topic.
Funny enough, majority of Russians owns gas stoves and view electric stoves as more of a safe option (meaning gas-explosions related dangers). Electric stoves are associated with living in a new apartment buildings at the very least. Modern choice if you will.
It’s kinda ironic that gas stove in US sold along side with “white picket fence” as a desirable middle class thing.
ReplyGas puts moisture in your house too. Also more expensive than electric. I have always been against it.
ReplyI like gas stoves because it heats up quicker and you can still light it if the electricity stops working,but it could do without all the pollutants.
ReplyWhat if you use your exhaust fan whenever you cook?
ReplyInduction rocks!
ReplyThis is the electric car paradox all over again. All you’re doing is moving the burner farther away, and wasting power through parasitic loss. Sorry, it’s basic physics.
Honourable mention: you can still use a gas stove, when the power goes out. Not so much with electricity.
Also, induction stoves are nice, but you gotta get a couple hundred dollars worth of proper pots to use them.
ReplyGas, how. It keep annoying customers away from me.
ReplyWhenever I have gas, I’ll take an antacid.
ReplyProblem solved.
I like flat ceramic electric stoves. Those look nice. Too bad I only have the coil type one in my apartment.
ReplyI rented a place with a gas oven at 19 and I was terrified of that thing. It was old and needed to have the pilot lit at all times or else gas would build up in the house. Never going back to gas cooking.
ReplyWhat about fireplaces? Is gas better or wood burning?
ReplyI shut off the gas in an apartment and used a hot plate and took cold showers over a decade ago, because, climate extinction….where has everyone been? Now I use a wood stove, hot plate, toaster oven, and outdoor fire pit.
ReplyFind yourself somebody who looks at you like this anti gas stove activist looks at the correspondent of that satire show
ReplyI love how the YouTube ad on this is for a gas grill.
ReplyIn Brasil gas is much cheaper than electricity. In the last 5 years of increasing poverty many needed to abandon gas to use wood, Wich could be more dangerous as the burning is not as complete, so more carbon monoxide being liberated in the nearby air. It seems to electricity is cheaper than gas in America, Wich is a bit weird. Here we also have a lot of electrical showers Wich are an enormous waste of energy, and gas heated water is considered a more ecologically conscious decision. This seems to be a complicated topic since, to my knowledge, we do not use fracking, but we do import natural gas. It would be interesting to have someone run the numbers and, in a trustworthy manner, describe if gas is more or less eco friendly in wich region
ReplyBig Appliance isn’t going to like this.
ReplyDuring the cold spell last winter, those of us here with gas heat had bills 3 or 4 times as high as those with electric. NE Oklahoma.
ReplyI miss my gas oven but it definitely wasn’t good for my asthma
ReplyAllan’s hair is driving me sane. It is so glorious!
ReplyAllana’s hair is driving me sane. It is so glorious!
ReplyI love Brady already! Ceramic/glass stove tops are fine for cooking at home. Powered by renewable electrickery, of course!
ReplyGas stoves are worse than homeopathic globuli. These latter ones are just harmless sugar. Gas stoves are a risk.
ReplyLargely affects for lower-income and vulnerable communities the most? In Canada, it seems like it’s mostly only higher-income neighbourhoods that have gas stoves. Rental units and houses in lower-income neighbourhoods tend to the use the old-fashioned electric coil burner stoves, (the ones that take forever to heat up and are really hard to clean) because those stoves tend to be cheaper. Is it different in the US?
ReplyThey don’t get any dumber that this. Gas stoves are killing you!. Really? So this story has nothing to do with getting headlines and clicks?
So cook on a woodstove. No pollutants there, thank goodness! Cook with electricity instead. After all, that coal fired oil burning, natural gas or nuclear generating station does’t pollute!
Moral of this story? Eat raw, or only with solar or wind energy.
ReplyPlease don’t cra* on about induction cooktops. They need special induction pots and pans to be efficient.
ReplyI live in Sweden and I can’t even imagine using a gas stove. Sounds like something out of the 1800s
ReplyFlat top electric stoves are waaaaaay easier to clean. I think that’s a great selling point
ReplyGaslit
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Are they saying it’s released when cooking only or idle as well? I doubt it would be idle, unless there was a specific leak in your stove. I hope that gas stays put when off.
ReplySponsored by the air fryer/induction cooking industry.
ReplyI am all for electric ! I had all electric when I bought my manufactured house in Arizona and I miss it. Absolutely hate the smell of gas whether it comes from the pipes in the ground or human rectums.
ReplyHank Hill is gonna want a word with you…
ReplySo every restaurant cook can sue the gas industry?? Where do I stand in line!
ReplyWhat about propane? Asking for a friend from Arlen, TX
ReplyFew countries in the world support both electrical and gas distribution networks. It’s a very costly luxury. Also we had a gas stove originally, but the amount of waste heat that flowed around pans would make the kitchen unbearably hot. Then there was that gas leak. So we switched to electric and the kitchen stays much cooler and, of course, no chance of gas leaks. There’s a local chinese restaurant that uses induction with 50 tables and the room does not get hot; that really impressed me. I want to switch to a stove with 2 regular electric burners for our old pans and 2 induction burners, but so far we only find one that’s all one or the other.
ReplyI’ve always liked electric stoves better. I have a gas one now because it came with the house I’m renting.
ReplyGood thing I don’t cook.
ReplyLove ur videos always providing the best information of what is affecting us and we need to know
ReplyI really do HATE electric stoves and I prefer gas because gas will give you nearly instant temperature control, whereas an electric stove takes for freaking ever to change the temperature at which it is cooking your food. You want to know how to get people to switch, and by that I mean an awful lot of good cooks, is an electric stove that responds waaay faster than they do now. As for fumes — that is why your range hood and fan are there or install a bigger fan.
Look, I get the environmental concerns, but trading noxious petroleum fumes for poisoning the earth herself with radioactive waste from nuclear electricity generating plants, is not tempting me at all.
Reply5:14 do you see that smile!? THAT person is a living piece of gold. This is what happens when diamonds wish to be a REAL PERSON! Influence? More like signal boost!
ReplyI feel duped by the headline, I thought it would be about GQP/tRump/Republiklan gaslighting propoganda… #MoronsAreGaslitAssholes
ReplyWhat about gas furnaces?
Replyold fashioned gas stoves had vents for the oven and hoods. since the air is not real hot the vents do not need to be as well insulated as a wood stove. electric is only better if it is not gas generated electricity.
the small electric appliances like microwaves and toaster ovens are cheaper and use less energy. I made a loaf of bread in a bread machine last night, cooked my rice in a rice cooker, and right now i am using an electric rotisserie to cook pork ribs that will be like barbecue. I bought these things at a thrift shop for under $10 each, and the rotisserie is outside my back door on an old washing machine making its smell and smoke outside. the dog will lick the grease tray clean and eat the rib bones.
ReplyYou know how we look back on common things that people did in the past that was bad for their health? Using gas stoves is one of the things people will look back on as something like that
ReplyProfessional chef’s have serious health problems later on in their lives, and also one of lowest life expectancy of professions in general. This probably helps explaining some of that.
ReplyOh wow!
ReplyLol those hashtags though!
ReplyHeating my house with propane is way cheaper then electric. Also heating the house with electric causes my housemate to have more problems with being thirsty. Also I am classically trained in cooking. I do not even own a microwave. I have an electric stove but I really don’t trust it. An electric stove kind of blew up on me in 2001. I guess I am just old or something. Funny something because I am tired and about to go to bed. My autocorrect was going crazy because I had the wrong language keyboard.
ReplyI’m getting an induction cooktop
ReplyGood job laying it out. I always thought about the emissions from these stoves, but didn’t do my research. Never used a gas stove is the upside. The down side is so many people do. Thank you Sam!
ReplyWho cares what she thinks about gas stoves I’m a chef and I won’t have it any other way. “Man has cooked on fire since the beginning of time” You know what’s bad electrical stoves, they are not good for my pocket. I don’t don’t know about you but I don’t like huge light bills.
ReplyYou know what else give kids asthma? Roaches.
ReplyI don’t trust the temperature of induction cooking unless I’m broiling or browning the top of a dish. “I still prefer gas, no respectable restaurant will go fully induction”
ReplyMost lower income homes only have a gas hookup. To get an electric hookup that handles high voltage, we’re talking a $1000 or more. Hats why I still have my gas stove.
ReplyJust imagine Gordon Ramsay or Alex Guarnaschelli waiting for that jankey spiral coil to heat up as they prepare a feast
ReplyI still want a gas stove.
Actually probably propane because I won’t be near a gas line.
But I also said a long time ago after watching a video on induction cooking that I will have an induction hot plate and use it frequently.
ReplySam I am very skeptical about all information.
Fauci covered up his suspicions about Wuhan virus?
We are not going to stop burning things.
But yeah people have to stop consuming excessively.
ReplyIt’s still shocking to me how technologically far behind the rest of the developed (and in some cases developing) world America is in some instances. I’ve always wondered why gas stoves are used in movies. I always thought it was just a plot piece that makes it convenient for explosions or death by asphyxiation somewhere in the storyline. But I also remember that when we lived in the US all the apartments we stayed in had gas stoves. Yet in South Africa, a developing country, electric stoves are standard. That’s crazy. America’s put the profit motive on riods…
ReplyGas appliances or electrical appliances run on electricity from gas plants…
ReplyThe CO2 emissions problem remains. Same with electric cars today.
This ain’t really new. People know not to heat their house with the …. Sorry please continue
ReplyI grew up with gas stoves in my home, I now have electric luckily, but restaurants are never gonna stop using gas
ReplyGlad I only have electric and only use gas stove outside while camping.
Replydoing it on a stove would be hot.
ReplyInduction stoves are cool, they don’t get hot…
ReplyThe only thing stopping the world from using electric/solar/wind etc, is the car and gas lobbies influencing the politicians in order to keep coal/oil etc still being used. It’s just big money corruption making the world a worse place, which is not capitalism fault necessarily, but if you allow $$$ to buy opinions and laws, then its inevitable profits will out weigh health and environmental concerns for corporations. If they can make 10 billion, and then pay a 2million dollar fine for dumping toxic waste in a river, or they can spend 100million to dispose of it properly, to a “corporation” the only thing that matters is which is the more profitable option. Corporations/lobbyists/politicians, don’t necessarily act with conscience, it’s just whatever profits them personally most. Then individuals buy stock in these companies, and as long as their 401k is shooting up, they feel they aren’t the ones personally destroying the environment or peoples’ health, they don’t feel responsible for what the corporation does. Greed, it’s the start and end to a lot of problems. I understand if your starving or homeless, doing everything you have to in order to survive, but for all the people fairly well off who just want that extra car or bigger house or to retire early, when is enough. When are you rich enough to start worrying about the rest of the world and the people, most people seem to be lost in their own little bubble of me, me, me.
ReplyAn induction hob is great, no pollution in the home; a smooth glass top,easy to clean; touch sensor controls, no knobs to fall off.
ReplyPetroleum/naptha is a key ingredient for plastic bags, plastic bottles, etc. Think about that when you shop and drinking water, etc
ReplyI have had my induction for few years and I would never go back to gas. My cooking time is reduced dramatically. And I am the daughter of a retired natural gas employee and grew up supporting this industry. Go Induction!
ReplyThis is weird to me, in my area I’ve never seen a gas stove in anyone’s house. I’ve been thinking about it all video, and nope, not one.
ReplyAre they just way more common in the states?
What was that little snip bir of people covid 19 positive being bussed in to infect people??? Can we get an little elaboration on that?
Reply1) show me a *SINLGE* professional kitchen that doesn’t use gas. That’s because it’s functionally better.
Reply2) I’ve never lived in a house that didn’t have an exhaust fan directly above the stove. Turn it on, problem solved.
I’ve always cooked with gas. Propane mostly. More reliable than electric where I live, and especially after typhoons. Electricity is generated here with fossil fuels, so I’m not sure how the pollution from each compares.
ReplyI like gas stoves, but I do realize the downside science of burning gas is real. I currently have an electric stove (change of residence) but all electricity in my city is powered by coal-fired power plants. When I use my electric stove, I’m burning coal. When I turn on a light, I’m burning coal. When I watch TV, I’m burning coal. When I play my electric guitar, you get the point.
ReplyIn Germany there was a TV documentary clearly in favour of ICE cars (you might have heard that is a big industry here) where the journalist showed people living in a flat at a highly polluted street that the vast majority of the dangerous nitrogen oxide in their flat actually did not come from the street but from their gas stove. It didn’t go as planned, instead of being calmed to the dangerous tailpipe emissons since something else is worse the flat inhabitants freaked out live and vowed to replace the gas stove with electric cooking as soon as possible. 😀
ReplyNatural gas is a byproduct of oil production. If they don’t use it, it gets burned pointlessly into the atmosphere to get rid of it. And where do you think a lot of that electricity to run your induction stove is coming from? Yep, natural gas plants. Electricity doesn’t appear out of nothing.
Replywell, bummer, I love my gas stove. it’s old, though, so when I replace it, I’ll get an electric one.
ReplyI went to a duxtop electric induction cooktop a year and a half ago. I will never cook on gas again.
ReplyWell, wish I had seen this before I had moved into my apartment with a gas range. Just moved out too
ReplyYou need a hood over the stove and use it. Electric ovens are just so much better get one.
Reply“cold dead hams” ~~ Love it. Best joke of the week.
ReplyInduction is great and all but comparing it to Tesla immediately made it less appealing. At least it doesn’t have a delusional billionaire posing as an engineer as its poster boy.
ReplyI used to use my gas stove as a heater in the winter. So bad.
ReplyThis seems like a weird scare-monger piece? It’s so weird and honestly feels like some kind of parody thing.
Side note: I like gas stoves because they’re easier to cook on (heat level is easier to adjust) and you can use them if the power goes down…
ReplyPublic awareness commercials need to make a comeback.
ReplySo then, I guess methane as an alternative fuel is out?
ReplyBread is better in a gas oven
ReplyI sure love having my gas stove when power is out for days at a time. Yep, we’ve got solar on the roof, but those panels required manufacture…which likely didn’t depend entirely on solar or wind energy. And the batteries we’re (still)waiting for so we don’t have to depend upon gas are also made through processes that depend upon far more than wind and solar. So think outside the electrical outlet when you promote electric over gas. Electricity comes from: coal, nuclear, wind, solar, dams and other sources that also have impacts.
ReplyAn informative piece, but I think your show is far more likely to go after consumer behaviour as a vector of climate change than you are to go after the car industry or the continued subsidies to oil companies. You push consumers to change, but the biggest culprits will never be criticized because they pay the ad bills.
ReplyGas lighting??? Did she say that our kitchen stoves contribute 10% to our carbon footprint? I don’t know about you, but it costs me about $50 a year to pay for the gas consumed by my gas stove. Maybe $100 tops. When I compare that to gas for my car or my overall electric consumption or gas for my furnace… it seems like a LOT less than 10% from my kitchen stove. Is she gas lighting me? Plus, doesn’t natural gas emit about 1/2 the co2 of a traditional coal fired power plant and that the use of natural gas has cut our overall carbon emmissions more than just about anything we do currently? And, even if she were right and our kitchen stove DID contribute 10% to our carbon footprint… doesn’t she get that electric stoves run on electricity which needs to be produced? And likely by a natural gas burning power plant. And that the amount of Co2 that is emmited will be on the same order of magnitude regardless if what your stove runs off of? If I were to guess, I’ll bet that 10% that she references is the total amount of natural gas a house consumes, which in cold climates like MN is MOSTLY your furnace to heat your house. That is pretty reasonable. But again even if you did that with electricity that power still needs to be generated someplace and that will still emit co2. Someday if it comes from solar and wind, then cool cool cool, but until then its mostly a wash. If you listen REALLY carefully, she actually says that 10% of our carbon footprint comes from burning natural gas in our buildings… and then goes on to talk exclusively about kitchen stoves. Technically true, but very misleading. Samantha, I’d have to give you a B- on this one.
ReplyI prefer cooking with gas, but I get it. However I wonder about gas dryers and gas water heaters, because even in energy-expensive New England, both are so much cheaper and work much better than anything else.
Replymakes total sense, astonishing one didnt thing of it. here in germany i have not seen a gas stove in living memory. i have induction. but i have a little /big gas burner for that ultra high heat cooling. aka wok and stir frys ventilation ventilation ventilation….
ReplyMeanwhile in Europe…
ReplyInduction is the best thing ever!!! Seriously, nothing is more convenient, efficient and most of all FAST!
ReplyPfff. I live in a studio with only electric stove. It heats up way too slow, not as good as real fire for cooking. But it is safer that the whole student apartment complex has zero gas. You just know some careless kid is gonna leave the stove on and make the place go kaboom
ReplyAt first I was, “Wait, Sam got cuter during covid. Way to go girl.”
ReplyAh maybe because i use a gas have used it all my life and live in a country that 90% of all homes use a gas stove this really seems like a joke to me….but i get the safety concerns…but I’ll continue using my gas stove for the foreseeable future since here in Jamaica the price for my cylindee of gas hasn’t increased none over the last 3 years but my electric bill goes up on average 20% each year….it is all good and well to talk about induction stove but poor ppl like have to stick with gas…and by the way I’m 33 and the only stove in my parents house in my house is a gas stove…
And i always look at the increased use of electronic items causes a demand for increase in electricity generation and if this electricity is made from fossil fuel are we solving the issue or just shifting it?
ReplyI wish I had the luxury of choosing my stove! I live in an apartment and I can’t change the appliances (nor could I afford to, really). I’ve always had electric coil stoves and really wanted a gas stove until I saw this. I guess this won’t change anything for me because I can’t change the appliances, but maybe someday I’ll own a home and get an induction cooktop! (Lol, I live in Toronto. That’s not happening.)
ReplyThe same is true for stoves that use wood or coal (real old school). Heck, even electric stoves and microwave ovens all use electricity which is most often sourced from coal or natural gas generators. The solution is simple: Proper Ventilation. A hood taking it outside prevents those gasses from accumulating in your house. Heating your water has the same pros and cons.
How many people are willing to forgo any form of heating or cooking until the grid is 100% renewable? Hands? I thought so.
ReplyNever mind influencers. How much does an induction stove cost? Installation, upkeep, electrical power?
Reply3:48 yeah, influencer are advertisers. They don’t do anything for free. If you see something on an influencers feed, they are selling it to you.
Replyi loooooove my electric stove, it really does boil water so much faster!!
ReplyUnfortunately I rent and my oven is gas and there’s nothing I can do about it.
ReplyYeah the gas fumes make me feel sick even when the flame is alight. I hate those things and they’re stupidly dangerous.
ReplyCarrie’s mom- ok, I’m genuinely horrified.
ReplyYou always need to have good ventilation near a gas stove and a commercial fan or hood. Most people know that
ReplyAnd the alternative is buying electric appliances and the electric company burns more natural gas to power those appliances
ReplySo funny !!! Thank you Samantha !!!
Reply2:55 I bet every stove, gas or not, has a Prop 65 warning.
ReplyI would also like to hear about how making induction stoves more affordable is part of the solution…if something goes wrong with the computer board in an induction stove it can cost $1000 just to replace the board.
ReplyHow should owners pay for the remodel?
ReplyThe absolutely funniest thing is that other countries have already done research on the risks and issues related to heating with gas, also proving that asthma and lung conditions are increased by the use of gas in the home. BUT in the US, we demanded that they redo all their research so they could make it so that it said that smoking was the leading contributor. Not that smoking is “good” but they want you to believe that smoking is the problem not gas. Like you said, we aren’t allowed to know about the gas issues.
ReplyHow is there no outrage!
ReplyI’ll take my induction stove over gas any day!
ReplyThis report was weak. I know that electric is probably more efficient than gas but there wasn’t any figures to support this. There was reports listed, showing the title, but not getting into the nuance of the info. The best, which broke me, was the reporter posing with a hot plate at her gas stove. Go all in and replace your appliance for electric.
I live in an old house with sketchy wiring that I wouldn’t trust to run an electric range. Furthermore, I was lucky as my Texan utility could not keep me powered, but I could cook by flashlight on my gas range.
ReplyBut if we stop using gas in our homes, the electric still has to be made somehow at the plant and more than likely they’ll also be burning. Some is produced from wind and solar but nowhere near enough to power our cities.
ReplyI prefer my electric stove.
Reply2:30 “Who would’ve thought that having an open flame in your home could do that?”
Apparently, not many people, and that’s why they got taken advantage of.
People: too lazy to get educated
ReplyAlso people: complaining when they get ripped off for not being educated
“Cold Dead HAMS?”
ReplyIf they made electric or induction stoves that actually work as well as a gas stove, I might use one. And I say this as someone who has cooked professionally. They just don’t work as well, sorry.
ReplyAnd decorative gas fireplaces! If I’m going to pollute with fire, can I just burn some renewable wood?
ReplyElectromagnetic Induction for the win!! All the benefits of gas (instant temperature up/down) without any of the drawbacks. Also, the gas flame creates water vapor which is a definite problem with RV’s which are made of cardboard and thus promotes mold.
ReplyKitchen islands can die in a fire lol
ReplyU know
ReplyYou need to make them affordable in real time not just saying it…..
Reply