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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Chefs and my wife prefer gas for better cooking, but I can’t tell the difference, except I like the flat electric stove surfaces for easy cleaning.
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Originally Posted by x808drifter
Gas is better at transferring heat quickly. It's also easer to maintain temp with one.
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"The big surprise in one new study, conducted by environmental scientists at Stanford University, was the amount of unburned gas that leaks into kitchens when a stove is off. They found that more than three quarters of methane that escapes from a stove does so when it is not in use, most likely through imperfect pipe fittings. Only one out of 53 stoves measured for the study—and many more the team has measured since—did not leak when turned off, says Rob Jackson, senior author of the study. Methane is not toxic, but it is a potent greenhouse gas. With 40 million gas stoves across the country, Jackson and his co-authors estimate that the heat-trapping potential of the methane they discharge annually is roughly equivalent to the carbon dioxide released by half a million gas-powered cars."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-gas-stoves-bad-for-our-health/
"Kids’ asthma risk from cooking with gas ‘like living with a smoker’
The health risk for children from cooking with gas has been compared to that from living with a smoker.
In a report into Australia’s reliance on gas released on Thursday, the Climate Council cites research that cooking with the fossil fuel is estimated to be responsible for 12 per cent of childhood asthma.
It recommends that gas cooktops should be phased out in Victoria."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/v...05-p57p11.html