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MauranKilom

They put a really high amount of particulates in the air, drastically reducing air quality.

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The particulate result is dubious from what I've seen

Most people keyed into this from the Vox article:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...

Which links to:

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1172959

As evidence for the claim that Gas range put out more PM2.5

But if you consult table 3 of that article you will see it doesn't show that at all. The food (especially frying) swamps differences between electric vs gas ranges, which themselves aren't even significant.

When we lived in houses with gas, some difficult to remove yellow residue formed on the outsides of all our stainless steel. We assumed it was cooking oil, but apparently, it was not. Our induction range completely eliminated that problem.

I wonder how much of the gunk is still in my lungs.

The real kicker is that most gas stoves leak. That residue might not have even been from USING the stove - it could have been from a very slow leak constantly coming out of the stove.

I took apart mine and completely greased all the fittings and put the proper type of teflon tape. Feel way better. Confirmed there are zero leaks now

Nice!

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