THE VIDEO SHELF · gas stoves
Problems with gas stovetops | weak, dirty and dangerous
Food YouTuber Adam Ragusea argues that gas stovetops are weaker than electric burners, dirty to clean, and a health risk from indoor air pollution. He cites Consumer Reports ratings and a literature review on gas stove health effects.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as an accessible overview of the case against gas cooktops in threads on cooking, induction and indoor air quality.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Adam Ragusea
- Topic
- gas stoves
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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An induction cooktop and electric pressure cooker certainly makes a gas connection for the kitchen unnecessary. There's an interesting video from Adam Rageusa on how bad gas cooktops are: [VIDEO] I think that gas cooktops and open-air cooking vessels are just used frequently because they're …
Factorium on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Science of Slow Cooking[VIDEO] - Great coverage of this entire issue [LINK] - Gas VS Induction [LINK] - Gas VS Induction Tl;dr over 50% of heat from a gas stove ends up in the environment. Nearly 100% of the energy from an induction cook top ends up in …
com2kid on Hacker News · 2022-02
In My best estimate is gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average
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