The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health – and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Induction stoves are really common in the UK I first got one ~10 years ago, a quick Google shows a 4 zone induction hob in B&Q (Home Depot in the US) can be had for £89, single zone portable worktop ones are around £30. The current one in my kitchen cost £479 recon (normally ~£720) super fancy

    It’s different to gas, I prefer it now. Having used the other terrible types of electric hobs/stoves and gas

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        12 hours ago

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      Induction is objectively better than every other option for anyone connected to the grid looking to buy a new kitchen stove.

      Unfortunately it’s one of these things that takes five minutes to explain because everyone has tried the Slumlord Special resistive stove and the general public can’t tell the difference. Those five minutes are why induction uptake is pathetically low compared to how superior it is in literally every way.

      Same deal with people who would still buy incandescent lightbulbs if they could just because they don’t understand that technology has moved on from CFLs and to them it’s all “newfangled economic bulbs that can’t light for shit”.