Has anyone here seen the reports on the Internet that gas ranges can affect the air quality in your home. I am sure most of you grew up in a house that food was cooked on the gas burners and a gas oven. So far I haven’t suffered any ill effects. I do run the range vent blower which exhausts to the outside when a burner is running.
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The gas stoves that I can recall from my childhood were all vented to the outside with a stove pipe and that’s maybe why we never suffered any ill effects from their use. Most modern gas stoves aren’t vented to the outside.
The last gas stove I had was in the condo we lived in before moving to our current home over 30 years ago. It was a 1987 builders grade GE gas stove and not vented to the outside. We had white Formica counter tops and every week I had to scrub off the film that collected on them from the gas stove. I HATED that stove! The burners couldn’t be adjusted low enough to steam rice without the flame blowing out, a real POS!
I was SO happy when we moved in ‘94 to our current home with an electric stove. No more weekly scrubbing of the counter tops to remove the build up from the unvented gas stove, and no more flames on the burners blowing out when steaming rice.
Eddie
The last gas stove I had was in the condo we lived in before moving to our current home over 30 years ago. It was a 1987 builders grade GE gas stove and not vented to the outside. We had white Formica counter tops and every week I had to scrub off the film that collected on them from the gas stove. I HATED that stove! The burners couldn’t be adjusted low enough to steam rice without the flame blowing out, a real POS!
I was SO happy when we moved in ‘94 to our current home with an electric stove. No more weekly scrubbing of the counter tops to remove the build up from the unvented gas stove, and no more flames on the burners blowing out when steaming rice.
Eddie
<blockquote>I am sure most of you grew up in a house that food was cooked on the gas burners and a gas oven.</blockquote> Nope. Parents had a gas range until the 1964 house was built, I was 1-1/3 yo, electric through to present time. The paternal grandparents had gas range, gas wall heater. Maternal grandmother had gas range, open gas space heaters. Both preferred stifling/Hellfire winter temperatures. I never much liked the atmosphere at either of their homes.
We always had an electric range during my lifetime. My mom said the 1953 Westinghouse was a pleasure to use, compared to the gas ranges used previously. They had lived in a trailer during the time my dad was in the army for the Korean War, and it had an LP gas range. The house previous to that also had the same, and when they returned there at the end of the war, they renovated the kitchen.
My sister has an LP gas cooktop, and an electric oven. I've never noticed any fumes from the gas appliance.
My sister has an LP gas cooktop, and an electric oven. I've never noticed any fumes from the gas appliance.
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Gas ranges have been used for eons without any trouble. I hate to get too political, but there are forces at play to get gas appliances replaced with electric. Why? Electric appliances are easier to monitor and control. You can research the people at the root of the anti-gas push, and they are not neutral players at all. They have an agenda, just like the people pushing for electric vehicles.
Gas ranges have been used for eons without any trouble. I hate to get too political, but there are forces at play to get gas appliances replaced with electric. Why? Electric appliances are easier to monitor and control. You can research the people at the root of the anti-gas push, and they are not neutral players at all. They have an agenda, just like the people pushing for electric vehicles.
I have lived in an all-electric house since January 1986. IF I ever have another house, I will make sure it's not all-electric. Even if I have to have butane tank in back yard. Besides, my other half has also made the request at least gas cook top.
This is nothing new. I have asthma, I can’t even be in the kitchen when a gas stove is on. The combustion gives me a very heavy asthma attack, even when a vent hood is used.
Min and both grandmother's had electric while I was growing up but mom switched to gas in 1992 and now says she won't go back. During the ice storm of 1994 we didn't have power but we could cook, we had heat and we could take showers. It influenced my sister and her husband to have all gas in their subsequent new build homes since. I have it in my house and I love using it but for most small cooking tasks I use induction because it won't heat the kitchen up. There was an article back in the 89s in popular mechanics magazine about gas stoves and new research to increase their burners efficiency and lower emissions. I posted about on here a few years ago so I'm sure it's in here somewhere. I also always have the vent hood on when the stove top or oven is on. But I have an invented gas wall heater for emergency heat if the need arises. We use it some during single digit winter nights to supplement the central heat. I haven't noticed any extra dust or residues from it nor do my white clothes get yellow from my gas dryer.
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Agree with you. That seems to be with many things in this life.
Agree with you. That seems to be with many things in this life.
My daughter's friends nearly all have gas ranges, my daughter knows how to safely cook with one, I can trust her to do flaming broiling, and she hates the smoothtop electric range at her school, just as sure as she's probably still a stranger to coil-top electric ranges...
Although my dad just recently replaced the old glass top range of which only the two small burners on it went from the last ones working to now with the large ones there also now burned out with one sporting the two 6", two 8" rod-type elements...
He never uses the oven, so its inexplicably a self-cleaning one of which unless I ever come over to use it for anything, it will absolutely never, ever get dirty! Ditto for it being a GE...
While his Frigidaire top freezer fridge got replaced with a Whirlpool, on account of it simultaneously dying an also sudden death...
-- Dave[this post was last edited: 5/5/2025-16:24]
Although my dad just recently replaced the old glass top range of which only the two small burners on it went from the last ones working to now with the large ones there also now burned out with one sporting the two 6", two 8" rod-type elements...
He never uses the oven, so its inexplicably a self-cleaning one of which unless I ever come over to use it for anything, it will absolutely never, ever get dirty! Ditto for it being a GE...
While his Frigidaire top freezer fridge got replaced with a Whirlpool, on account of it simultaneously dying an also sudden death...
-- Dave[this post was last edited: 5/5/2025-16:24]
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I haven't had any issues. Despite their drawbacks, I'd still buy a gas stove over electric. Actually if I could, for my next place I'd have everything inside be gas except for the oven. My last cabin had a Wolf gas oven and I didn't think it was worth the extra. Everything else like the dryer, water heater, fire place, fridge, etc. I'd gladly have as gas.
Cooking with gas has become an issue as the air tightness of houses has increased. In a modern airtight house in Australia now, if you have gas, you need to have an externally vented range hood and a system to allow for make up air to enter. If you have electric, then no specific source of makeup air is required.
Victoria has banned natural gas supply in new housing estates with a view to phasing it out entirely. Heating is heat pump for heating and hot water.
The aim currently is for gas to provide baseload power, rather than being connected to individual houses. With our relatively mild climate, it’s a lot easier to achieve than in places where the tennis below freezing for extended times.
Victoria has banned natural gas supply in new housing estates with a view to phasing it out entirely. Heating is heat pump for heating and hot water.
The aim currently is for gas to provide baseload power, rather than being connected to individual houses. With our relatively mild climate, it’s a lot easier to achieve than in places where the tennis below freezing for extended times.
Mom's house had no natural gas service (altho the houses at either side and across the street have it) ... until now, after my sister and SIL moved in w/her and added a Generac. The cooktop and wall oven were changed as part of a refurbishment related to the move-in but remain electric, as are the two water heaters and HVAC (heat pump). The original (York) A/C with resistance heat and the Lennox 2-stage heat pump that replaced it were 3-phase electric. Three-phase power is available due to the city having a sewer lift-station at the edge of the property. The current Lennox variable-speed heat pump is single-split phase.
Everyone grew up with gas ranges
Not exactly 70% of the ranges in the United States are electric, probably the major majority of people have had some experience with gas ranges that is likely.
Gas ranges have gotten a little better but they’re still inferior to cook on overall when we move to this house in 1961 my mother had gas for the first time and I watched her stop cooking a lot of the wonderful things she used to cook with an electric range, it was miserable cooking, fancy candies, and things on top of the range because of the heat, the broiler was ineffective. The oven didn’t bake as well, I liked it as a little boy. It was fun to play with, although it did make me sick when she turned the oven on in the morning before I had my breakfast.
It was changed out in 1972 to electric couldn’t believe what a wonderful experience that was how much faster it was how much better the oven was we could start broiling things, etc.
My partner and I got a condo in 1980 had a brand new roper built Kenmore gas range in it. We both like to cook pulled the range out within a few months, put in a Jennair electric downdraft cooktop and a whirlpool double wall oven never looked back.
Now I have an all electric kitchen, I love gas as a fuel, and I have a 1980 caloric, micro gas convection range out in the outdoor kitchen, I mostly use the micro convection, gas oven, I occasionally use the gas burners, but they’re kind of hard to control like most gas burners, and you can’t see the gas flame in the sunlight to judge The flame size very well.
John L
Not exactly 70% of the ranges in the United States are electric, probably the major majority of people have had some experience with gas ranges that is likely.
Gas ranges have gotten a little better but they’re still inferior to cook on overall when we move to this house in 1961 my mother had gas for the first time and I watched her stop cooking a lot of the wonderful things she used to cook with an electric range, it was miserable cooking, fancy candies, and things on top of the range because of the heat, the broiler was ineffective. The oven didn’t bake as well, I liked it as a little boy. It was fun to play with, although it did make me sick when she turned the oven on in the morning before I had my breakfast.
It was changed out in 1972 to electric couldn’t believe what a wonderful experience that was how much faster it was how much better the oven was we could start broiling things, etc.
My partner and I got a condo in 1980 had a brand new roper built Kenmore gas range in it. We both like to cook pulled the range out within a few months, put in a Jennair electric downdraft cooktop and a whirlpool double wall oven never looked back.
Now I have an all electric kitchen, I love gas as a fuel, and I have a 1980 caloric, micro gas convection range out in the outdoor kitchen, I mostly use the micro convection, gas oven, I occasionally use the gas burners, but they’re kind of hard to control like most gas burners, and you can’t see the gas flame in the sunlight to judge The flame size very well.
John L
You can make a fire to cook on in the wilderness but you can't rub two sticks together to get electric.
Cooking on flame is natural.You can cook on fire anywhere. It's been that way since man has been on the Earth.
I have to say though for clothes drying I like electric and I have used both types. Doesn't really make a difference to me. The electric is more convenient though.
Cooking on flame is natural.You can cook on fire anywhere. It's been that way since man has been on the Earth.
I have to say though for clothes drying I like electric and I have used both types. Doesn't really make a difference to me. The electric is more convenient though.
I've heard people say gas dryers yellow clothes but in my 30 years of using one I have not experienced this. I can see if there are smokers in the house maybe, but not in mine nor my mother's houses.
