The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.
Pollution from gas stoves accounts for more than half of some [US] Americans’ total exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a toxin linked to asthma, a study in the academic journal PNAS Nexus concludes. The findings, published this month, provide the first nationwide, community-level estimates of residential NO2 exposure.
I feel like a part of this depends on the types of electric stoves people have used. Flat stovetops with embedded heating elements or induction stoves are way way nicer in my experience than raised coil stoves. Probably a lot of the people who prefer gas have been using raised coils and not one of the better options
I hate my induction stove so much. Gas was way easier to handle.
Heat transfer is uneven, move the pan to balance it, stove shuts off.
Something boils over, if I wipe it away the stove shuts off.
Very different heating characteristics for each piece of cookware.
Coil sucks, but I hate the glass stove tops too if you’re a renter because it is a deposit trap. One little scratch and your landleech tries to take the whole deposit and you spend months fighting it. Also using a wok on a coil or glass stove top sucks in my experience, not a lot of non-gas western stoves seem to accommodate a wok all that well. I’ve seen a few induction stove tops that are built with a wok in mind, but landleeches never put those in apartments I have available to me.
flat bottom woks. Even with a gas stove, you’re not gonna get the same flavor as a Chinese restaurant at home, because they use very high powered flames. So there’s really no point in using a regular round bottom wok at home.
That’s a really good point as well. The same actually just happened to someone I know. At least with the coil the fix if you damage a burner is like 12 dollars or was last time I had to replace them