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.
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.
Induction is great for boiling water but when I have to be stirring something around and shaking the pan I dont want to have to worry about breaking the glass cooktop.
Wait what's this about breaking the glass with boiling water?
If you smash your pan down into some glass it can break. But like just don't drop a pan full of water half a foot onto your stove. just put it down like a normal person.
Yeah I know that, it just sounded like boiling water might do something that would break the glass
Ya no nothing besides water being heavy would increase breakage potential.