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.

Obligatory Technology Connections video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUywI8YGy0Y

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    It probably has to do with the type of burner I’m going to guess.

    We’ve had both induction and electric stoves for our whole lives. And the home we recently moved into has a fancy dancy natural gas stove with star shaped burners.

    It is night and day compared to anything else we’ve used before, water boils so much faster, I can actually sear a pen full of vegetables now instead of just making them mushy.

    Honestly I love it. I just wish the hood wasn’t so shitty and actually had a hood to capture all of the output from the stove.

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        23 hours ago

        Oh dear Lord. The hood has a filter???

        Yeah, that’s probably fucked up, none of the filters in anything in this house had been changed in years when we got the place. The filter for the furnace was black.

        And it’s been over a year since then I’m sure if the hood fan has a filter it’s absolutely disgusting.

        But I also meant that the hood could have a shape to it so that it collects air from the front burners which it doesn’t.

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          22 hours ago

          Yeah, fam… airborne grease particles. They’re the reason for hood fan filters, and the reason they clog. I would recommend getting a full box of nitrile gloves. And definitely clean the screen cover over the filter.

          Edit: re-shaped for collection of fumes from the front burners… Idk, sometimes people change the stove but not the hood, or get a stove and think the hood that would work best with it “clashes” and gets an objectively shit hood instead. Beauty is pain. Or some shit. Idk. I put stones on top of other stones for a living…

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        20 hours ago

        You can wash the oil out of metal hood-filters, in the dishwasher.

        (Extra: Heat-pump(reverse-cycle) air-conditioner indoor-filters can be removed, and then washed out with water, takes 5 minutes)

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      17 hours ago

      I’ve got a gas stove that I love, but my shitty little induction hotplate that I hate for anything other than searing is better at searing. It’ll get a cast iron pan up to 700-800 degrees and my carbon steel gets to like 900, which is perfect for searing.

      But the damn thing turns off when I try to toss anything, and it can’t maintain a low temperature because the pulse-width modulation is 1Hz.