#cooking-with-gas — Public Fediverse posts

Since March, stovetop cooking hasn’t sounded the same in our kitchen. Instead of the click-click-click-poof of a gas burner igniting, turning recipe ingredients in a pan or pot into a meal begins with the beeps of buttons on a touch-sensitive display and then the pulsing buzz of an induction coil.

Replacing the gas range that had come with our house when we moved in 20 years ago, and which had become increasingly iffy about having two of its burners light, was an unquestionable part of finally getting the kitchen redone. Getting an induction range did not seem as obvious until some contemplation about how we’d want to end the need to burn fossil fuels in the house every day1 and learning more about the health risks of gas burners in unventilated kitchens.

Five months into cooking with the Bosch induction range2 we picked out, several impressions stand out:

• The cooking surfaces really do heat up quickly–I almost botched one of the first pots of rice I cooked when I didn’t realize the water was already boiling. If you cook pasta with any regularity, an induction cooktop is your new friend.
• Induction surfaces are also responsive in a way no gas burner is, almost immediately cooling down when you turn down or turn off the heat. They also let you keep a pan on minimal heat without worrying about gas flames blowing out.
• That buzzing noise can sound weird, especially when it’s louder with particular pieces of cookware for reasons that I have yet to figure out. On the other hand, I’ve decided that I like the beeps the touch controls make as I tap them; the experience feels a little like cooking on the bridge of NCC-1701-D.
• Not every pot or pan heats up as quickly. The All-Clad stainless-steel cookware we got with our wedding works great, as does the Wirecutter-endorsed nonstick pan we bought to replace one that wasn’t induction compatible (determined by a magnet not sticking to its underside). But the griddle pan we bought to retire another induction-incompatible model takes longer to heat up than I’d like.
• Because the cooktop is so smooth, a pot or pan will spin around or slide away from the induction element very easily. That unbroken surface, however, is also super-easy to clean.
• As you might expect with any stove swap, it takes some time to adjust muscle memory for one range’s output for another’s, which can be a issue for particularly temperature-sensitive recipes.
• The embedded electronics in an induction cooktop may make fussy moments possible, and I may have seen one happen after our kid left the oven on for too long after baking cookies. That apparently heated up the cooktop enough for it to balk at turning on a cooktop coil for a few minutes.

After those five months, I not only don’t miss cooking with gas but have been reminded of what I don’t miss when I’ve used other people’s gas stovetops where some burners don’t light up reliably. But it’s also easy for me to say that when we still have a gas grill on the back patio for the not-everyday experience of cooking with fire.

1. Replacing the 2018-vintage gas furnace and water heater with more efficient heat-pump units will be a task for another year. ↩︎
2. Yes, that is an expensive piece of hardware. And well worth it considering all of the time I spend in the kitchen! ↩︎

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/16/home-on-the-induction-range/

#Bosch #cookingWithGas #hob #homeElectrification #induction #inductionCooktop #inductionRange #inductionStove #magnetic

"It’s no longer a secret that the US oil industry was well aware as early as 1957 that its products threaten the #climate.

Less known is the fact that the #gas utility industry has been engaged in the same kind of deceit. The industry has been gaslighting us by promoting the idea that “#CookingWithGas” is a good thing, despite knowing as far back as 1970 that gas stoves pose a threat to public health and the environment."

https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/the-gas-utility-industry-is-gaslighting-us/

The #cookingwithgas hashtag is part of a large social media influence campaign by the natural gas industry, just like the “now you’re cooking with gas” tv ad campaign from decades ago. Induction cooktops are superior in every way.

https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54

Has anyone out there switched from a gas hob to induction?

If so, how did you find it?

#Cooking #InductionHob #CookingWithGas

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-to-know-about-gas-stove-risks

#CookingWithGas #NaturalGas #Gas #Cooking #InductionStoves #ElectricStoves #Stoves #Environment #Health

I love how #cookingwithgas is just a political project by everyone who can barely boil an egg. As someone who uses a gas stove every fucking night, yes please replace my shitty burners with an induction stovetop and shut the fuck up.

Heres a climate town video for every belligerent moron who thinks this "news" about their gas stove is the latest assault from "the left"

https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54

Induction is just better and if I'm gonna buy cookware I'm just buying induction compatible cookware from Aldi anyway.

This is such a fucking stupid discussion we're having.

With love, my asthma having ass.

@alfredtwu

What iF... This is just #trolling since the 'G' in #GOP tends be the #gasslighters ? 🤦‍♂️😆

No Gas Cooking for thee type scenarios so they can look back at old pictures and post them of 'hey, l👀kitt all these democrats gaslighting also!!!' 🤦‍♂️😆👀👀

Obvs. Your Damn Lying 👀's deceiving youuuu!!! 👀👀🤦‍♂️

#GaslightingScience #Meta #CookingWithGas #Democrats

I.e. - "Look, there's Kamala cooking at home!!! " #Science🤦‍♂️😆