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Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

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Re: Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

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Post by Forgeties79 »

PeterWhittaker wrote: post #5

That's why I love my induction range: all the benefits of gas (near instant heat control and response, even cooking, etc.), none of the asthma or benzene!

I’m lucky we have a proper range hood that vents outside so I feel better about gas. If this is the same paper I read a year or two ago, or related to it, apparently that reduces the “pollution” in the house by like 90% or more. Going off memory though so someone correct me if I’ve got it wrong.

If the hood breaks down or the stove needs to be fully replaced, I will probably flip to induction. I had one in my old apartment and it was great

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Post by DANmode »

sm-silversight wrote: post #7

I don't care. Quality-of-life. I cook in a pan every day. Nothing but an open flame gives me the kind of control I need to cook with the precision I do. Whatever the harmful effects on my health are, that is a trade I make consciously. My life would be noticeably worse without my open-flame stove. I'd wager anyone who opines otherwise in this thread barely cooks or doesn't cook in a serious fashion. A gas stove is a…

It’s not the flame/carcinogens that I’m most worried about personally, but instead the gas.

Oh, and I disagree with the fire being more precise than induction etc.

It’s just what you’re used to.

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Post by jghn »

sm-silversight wrote: post #7

I don't care. Quality-of-life. I cook in a pan every day. Nothing but an open flame gives me the kind of control I need to cook with the precision I do. Whatever the harmful effects on my health are, that is a trade I make consciously. My life would be noticeably worse without my open-flame stove. I'd wager anyone who opines otherwise in this thread barely cooks or doesn't cook in a serious fashion. A gas stove is a…

> Nothing but an open flame gives me the kind of control I need to cook with the precision I do

Please explain how an induction cooktop doesn't give you the control and precision you need as compared to gas flame.

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Post by amluto »

syntaxing wrote: post #9

I’ve been using induction since I have had kids and I enjoy it so much more than fire. That being said, I rent so I can only use 120V ones and the options are so limited here. Most of the small 120V ones make an obnoxious hum.

The Impulse Labs stove has almost cartoonish levels of excessive power and uses 120V (and doesn’t even use particularly high current). The Breville Control Freak uses 120V and is a touch underpowered but is truly excellent. Both of these even have knobs (and both have very nifty temperature control capabilities).

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Post by jMyles »

I love my induction cooktop. I despise - in fact loathe - the touch interface, which becomes useless with the slightest spill of oil (and can thus be stuck on high until the interface is sufficiently wiped off and dried).

I have the Gasland IH77BFH. If someone has made a hack to modify this by adding physical dials, I'd be tickled.

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Post by jedberg »

sm-silversight wrote: post #7

I don't care. Quality-of-life. I cook in a pan every day. Nothing but an open flame gives me the kind of control I need to cook with the precision I do. Whatever the harmful effects on my health are, that is a trade I make consciously. My life would be noticeably worse without my open-flame stove. I'd wager anyone who opines otherwise in this thread barely cooks or doesn't cook in a serious fashion. A gas stove is a…

Many professional cooks who are building new kitchens are doing it with induction. Induction gives you even more precise control, especially since they can put more sensors on the cook surface since it doesn't get as hot.

Re: Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

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Post by XenophileJKO »

mort96 wrote: post #19
syntaxing wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simply not true. There’s a ton of induction and electric coil ranges with knobs. Just look at the Bosch line.

I haven't seen one in a kitchen in decades, other than extremely old ones. The touch control design is absolutely everywhere. At least here in Norway, where ~all stovetops are electric.

I just bought an LG induction stove, all knobs except oven temp setting.

Re: Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

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Post by beached_whale »

ericpauley wrote: post #21
lkramer wrote: post #6

I find it significantly harder to cook with electric than gas, and the first hurdle these days is always that for some reason all modern stoves use awful touch interfaces instead of just plain knobs. I don't understand how we got there. It should be obvious to anyone that it's a terrible interface when you are trying to multitask several pots and might also have greasy hands

Am I missing something? A quick search for electric ranges on Home Depot shows simmerstats at every price range. The harder one is induction, where there are lots of touch controls, but I don’t see this issue on traditional resistive stovetops. (This is in the US of course)

I've seen induction with dials for the stove. Ovens have had electronic buttons for decades though.

Re: Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

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Post by jedberg »

syntaxing wrote: post #10
sm-silversight wrote: post #7

I don't care. Quality-of-life. I cook in a pan every day. Nothing but an open flame gives me the kind of control I need to cook with the precision I do. Whatever the harmful effects on my health are, that is a trade I make consciously. My life would be noticeably worse without my open-flame stove. I'd wager anyone who opines otherwise in this thread barely cooks or doesn't cook in a serious fashion. A gas stove is a…

No way. I cook everyday and induction is vastly superior than gas. The only time fire is vastly superior is when I use a wok which I have a stove I use outdoors. Most induction stoves have temperature maintained too. So it can keep your oil at a specific temperature let it be frying or confit or roasting spices.

They have wok adaptors for induction now, FYI.

Re: Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

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Post by Maxion »

syntaxing wrote: post #12
lkramer wrote: post #6

I find it significantly harder to cook with electric than gas, and the first hurdle these days is always that for some reason all modern stoves use awful touch interfaces instead of just plain knobs. I don't understand how we got there. It should be obvious to anyone that it's a terrible interface when you are trying to multitask several pots and might also have greasy hands

Simply not true. There’s a ton of induction and electric coil ranges with knobs. Just look at the Bosch line.

Not really in Europe, at least not in the nordics. All Bosch are touch controls.
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