The Victorian government will ban gas connections to new homes and residential subdivisions from January 1 next year.

Cooking on gas is the one environmentally damaging thing I don’t want to give up, I’ll admit…

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Realistically, how likely is it that this whole gas system we’ve been using will look batshit crazy in the future.

    We build a city wide network of pipes carrying flamable gas … so we can all have a nicer cooking experience despite alternatives being basically mainstream? What?!

    Plenty of comments in here about induction being better or as good with different strengths/weaknesses. IME, I agree completely, I much prefer induction now.

    But just recently I had to downgrade to the “crappy” electric stove tops. And you know what … it’s fine. Seriously, you get used to it and cook decently enough. There’s probably a lot of “preciousness” around cooking and kitchens TBH.

    • BrightFadedDog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How different stoves work for you partly depends on what types of things you cook, but there are also a lot of variations in how crappy standard electric stoves are.

      I’ve used old coil stoves that were not that bad, but my mother’s new glass topped thing was so awful I learnt not to even try cooking some dishes. If you needed to brown anything you had to put the pan on for a 10-15 minute preheat to get anywhere near hot enough, then if you needed to reduce the heat to simmer it was best to just move to another burner if you could because it would take 5+ minutes to cool down. The top heat was just enough to brown something if you left it a long time and did not crowd the pan, but doing something like searing a steak or making a stir-fry just wasn’t possible.

      But then I’ve also used gas stoves that are hard to work with and don’t have much control over the temperature - even my current stove I tend to switch burners to accommodate different heat levels better. So I guess a lot comes down to having the right specific stove to meet your requirements, more than being just a gas vs. electric issue. Having previously believed I’d never want anything other than gas I have been pretty impressed by the portable induction cooker I’ve been trying out, and I’m sure a better quality model would suit me for pretty much everything.

      • lmk@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I would contend that electric cooktops have only started being decent relatively recently (specifically induction).

        The coils ones are crummy, the “hot plate” ones are frustratingly slow and as you mentioned the glass ones aren’t any better (unless induction).

  • Motavader@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Could we please instead do something about the global shipping and trucking industries? Hell, even clothing production creates more CO2 emissions than shipping and trucking combined. I would gladly sacrifice more shitty clothes for the ability to cook a decent meal.

    • cuavas@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You fail to understand just how big a large container ship is. If a shirt comes on a ship from China, the truck taking it from the warehouse to the shop emits more CO2 for that shirt than the ship did bringing it from to the port. In fact, if you walk for ten minutes to the shop and back, you have emitted more CO2 than the ship did to carry that shirt. A container ship emits a large total amount of CO2 because it’s very big, carrying a massive amount of cargo. But overall, shipping is one of the most efficient modes of transport we’ve invented.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s not an either/or, we need to do both. Plus a lot of other things that everyone refuses to do or complains about because they think something else should be done by someone else first.

  • Still@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    induction ranges are like soooooo much better than gas, my parents got one and the range of power it can put out is much larger than any gas stove I’ve used and it doesn’t make the room hot

      • zik@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        You can get super fancy induction cook tops that work with conventional woks but even better you can get woks designed to work with conventional induction cook tops.

        • PsychedSy@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It’d be hard to make the choice for the induction top without trying it. We have a resistive range/hob so I have a 15kbtu butane burner I use with my wok and it’s so, so much better.

          If induction was good enough for the cost they wouldn’t have to force people. It’s going to be cheaper to buy bog standard shit that works how you’d expect with a gas burner. Maybe poor people don’t deserve good fried rice.