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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.

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

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[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, but...

Cooking itself also does this. If you are searing or frying that will also release dangerous particulates. Make sure you have and use a vent hood that vents outside the living space when you cook regardless of fuel.

I can say from personal experience of using every kind of home stove, that gas is both the worst and slowest. Boiling water for my morning coffee is fastest on induction, which takes about half the time as resistive or radiant electric, and gas takes nearly three times longer than that.

Though it might just be the american style of burner that directs the flame away from the center of the pan. I've not yet tried any other kind.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How lomg does boiling water with a good kettle take? It takes like 60s to boil water for me.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What heat source are you using? In my experience induction about matches electric kettles.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

In poland before kettles, we used to boil water using gas and that always took ages

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Check and see if you need to change the filter in the hood.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 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.....

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 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)

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 16 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.