I Love my gas stove-top (the oven is electric), 3 physical buttons with immediate response <3 !
Are there any dangers except the obvious burning your hand you have in mind? It’s heavily regulated where I live so the danger of everything blowing up is quite small.
I love my gas stove, we just upgraded the hood, the old one barely covered the range top and was so loud nobody wanted to be in the kitchen when it was running. As unofficial family safety officer and fun dampener I’m always turning it on but that basically made conversations impossible and multitasking difficult.
I grew up with electric ranges and then my young adulthood saw a series of lowest possible price stoves included in apartments, I could not wait to get away from them.
Our extremely crappy coil based electric range burned out and at the time I researched it a pretty nice gas stove was half of what a comparable induction stove was. Now I understand there are more options and it seems obvious to go induction for the next one.
That being said I think I will miss the gas stove, it feels very intuitive the way the flame reacts to the knob and the speed that the pans heat. The coil stoves I have used have all had hot spots, it isnhard to tell when they have reached full temperature and different cookware heats up very differently.
Burning an overly rich fuel mixture will definately smell differently than the intended mixture. Which is probably the smell they are talking about. Best i can describe it is a sooty smell
Gas cooking ranges
Edit to clarify: they’re way too normal for how toxic they are.
I Love my gas stove-top (the oven is electric), 3 physical buttons with immediate response <3 !
Are there any dangers except the obvious burning your hand you have in mind? It’s heavily regulated where I live so the danger of everything blowing up is quite small.
More research is emerging that gas stoves kick off carcinogens and are, in the US at least, often poorly ventilated.
Please turn on your vent hood everytime you cook with gas. We are getting rid of ours for induction.
I can’t wait to switch mine to induction as well. I always run the fume hood with gas but it still feels like it’s not capturing most of the fumes
I love my gas stove, we just upgraded the hood, the old one barely covered the range top and was so loud nobody wanted to be in the kitchen when it was running. As unofficial family safety officer and fun dampener I’m always turning it on but that basically made conversations impossible and multitasking difficult.
I grew up with electric ranges and then my young adulthood saw a series of lowest possible price stoves included in apartments, I could not wait to get away from them.
Our extremely crappy coil based electric range burned out and at the time I researched it a pretty nice gas stove was half of what a comparable induction stove was. Now I understand there are more options and it seems obvious to go induction for the next one.
That being said I think I will miss the gas stove, it feels very intuitive the way the flame reacts to the knob and the speed that the pans heat. The coil stoves I have used have all had hot spots, it isnhard to tell when they have reached full temperature and different cookware heats up very differently.
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The gas doesn’t smell, it’s an odorant added to make leaks identifiable.
If you’re smelling it that much you need to ignite it faster, you shouldn’t be letting gas flow for more than a second before igniting it.
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Burning an overly rich fuel mixture will definately smell differently than the intended mixture. Which is probably the smell they are talking about. Best i can describe it is a sooty smell