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Gas stoves fill the air in your home with particulate matter (pm), which has been found to increase cancer risk in the long term.

So next time you buy a stove, consider choosing an induction stove.

Btw, gas stoves being better or faster than induction is a myth. They have certain specific advantages, but they are actually slower.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think the people who claim gas stoves are best likely grew up either not cooking much, or had a decent gas stove, so their first exposure to an electric stove was super cheap, crappy electric coil stoves in student housing, or wherever they first lived as a young adult. Then when they were able to afford better, they got a better gas stove.

I have a really crappy gas stove, and it makes me yearn for the cheap electric coil stoves of my youth.

People say that gas stoves are more powerful and responsive, when the truth is that more powerful stoves are more powerful, and "responsiveness" is a fake concern. My crappy gas stove takes forever to get a pot of water boiling, especially compared to coil stoves. Yeah, you can turn a gas stove to 100% quickly, but that's only better if it can put out more power. It won't heat up any faster than an electric stove if the electric stove takes double the time, but also has double the power. There's also not many cases where "time to maximum heat" is what you care about, I can't think of any.

Responsiveness the other way (hot to cool) doesn't matter when you have a high thermal mass in the pan (or the pan itself has high mass), it only matters when the pan and contents are light, in which case, you just take the pan off the heat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago

The way coil stoves cycle their power on and off is incredibly dumb IMO.

Induction cooktops don't do that, but it blows my mind that it took as long as it did to get a duty cycle frequency somewhere above 'once every 30 seconds'.