https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-convinced-americans-to-love-gas-stoves/

Surveys showed that most people had no preference for gas water heaters and furnaces over electric ones. So the gas companies found a different appliance to focus on. For decades, sleek industry campaigns have portrayed gas stoves […] as a coveted symbol of class and sophistication

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The sales pitches worked. The prevalence of gas stoves in new single-family American homes climbed from less than 30 percent during the 1970s to about 50 percent in 2019.

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Beginning in the 1990s, the industry faced a new challenge: mounting evidence that burning gas indoors can contribute to serious health problems. […]

Cooking is the No. 1 way you’re polluting your home.

https://archive.ph/Aiyd2

You have more control over temperature on an induction cooktop than you have with a gas cooktop, but there is a learning curve. Samsung induction cooktops show a blue “virtual flame”, which can help a new user visualize the amount of heat going to the pan.

  • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    My current place has a glass electric cooktop (please let me upgrade to induction) and I was worried about it to but I’ve had no issue. Just don’t be slamming things around I guess. I think you’d have to be pretty crazily just like dropping cast iron pans on it or get unlucky.

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      1 month ago

      Unlucky is my fear haha.

      Big pro for them is also easier to clean if you don’t have to remove parts when cleaning

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        1 month ago

        I use huge pans, cast iron, and more on the stove and I’m not exactly a graceful creature and so far not broken. I really think it would be bad luck to like put a pan down and the top shatters haha. Definitely possible though.

        Cleaning is nice though. Spray down and wipe. Maybe a little powder sprinkled on for extra power of something got cooked on. Easy