this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
117 points (96.1% liked)
Climate
8512 readers
399 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Gas is not better than electric resistance stoves for one very serious, insurmountable issue, gas stoves give off a non-trivial amount of gas into the living area they are being used in, even when kitchen hoods are used. This is not something the gas stove industry wants to have a conversation about so we don't here in the US.
This was not, and is still is not, common knowledge. We definitely do need to spread the word on that. I only learned this within the last year or two.
You were talking about cooking (i.e., the performance in terms of how well it delivers heat to the food), so that's the question I answered. Gas is better than electric resistance in that respect. If you want to make a separate point about air quality that's one thing, but you didn't have to phrase your comments as bait.
Air quality can't be separated from judging a stove that sits smack dab in the center in of your home.
If you think that air quality is a built in metric to every conversation about cooking, then I think it's you who has unrealistic expectations.
I mean I have a naturally broader systemic view than most people and I know that just because you haven't folded the concept of cooking into my view of a Unified Field Theory encompassing all of existence doesn't make me smart and you dumb.
You are making food in an enclosed space that you are breathing in fool. Of course it matters. I am not going to stoop to this pedantic of a level to argue with you. If making food with your stove hurts your health and makes your body feel worse, it impacts the holistic experience of cooking and worse it hurts your health. Period, end of story.
All of those things are subjective experiences I have not experienced. Because ventilation, cooking frequency, and myriad other factors complicate the experience.
So go ahead and get on your high horse and whine about pedantry.
Period. Exclamation! Question mark?
If you have used a gas stove regularly, your health has been impacted to some degree, that is simply what the research shows.
Food lasts 30 seconds, health problems from gas stoves are over the course of many, many years. OP never once argued against your research, they simply made the claim that food is of better quality then when cooked on a resistance stove, which is true.
Have you ever actually cooked on a resistance stove?
Why would the gas be turned on for the stove?