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It appears to me that the studies in the article compared homes with gas stoves with homes without gas stoves. Do you think that people without gas stoves cook significantly less to explain away the difference to other cooking methods?

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I was under an incorrect impression that gas stoves were more common in more wealthy homes. Every crap place I rented had an electric stove. Every nice place I've lived came with a gas range. I was incorrectly extrapolating from there that poor people cook less (I still think this is true - see food deserts, fast food induced health issues, and the like).

Basically a chain of incorrect assumptions, and ones I didn't even properly express

Gas is problematic for insurance on rental properties so landlords avoid it.

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