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By David R Baker and Immanual John Milton | Bloomberg<\/strong><\/p>\n

The controversy erupting from mere talk of banning gas stoves<\/a> has sparked a culture war that\u2019s about more than politics\u2014 it\u2019s about food. And it boils down to one question: Which cooks better, gas or electric?<\/p>\n

For most home chefs forced to choose between gas ranges that heat quickly\u00a0or electric-coil stoves that are inefficient and ugly, the answer is simple: gas.\u00a0But there\u2019s a third option: induction stoves, which heat with a tightly controlled magnetic field rather than a flame.<\/p>\n

On this, even professional\u00a0chefs are divided.\u00a0California chef Andrew Gruel, who owns American Gravy Restaurant Group, says induction stoves are \u201cjust less efficient\u201d than gas ranges. But Chef Rachelle Boucher, of the Building Decarbonization Coalition, says: \u201cI can boil water or sear a steak or cook something twice as fast on induction.\u201d<\/p>\n

What they can agree on is that cooking is an emotional topic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to cultural topics that are close to our hearts and stomachs \u2014\u00a0mine are one and the same \u2014\u00a0people have some pretty big opinions,\u201d Gruel said.<\/p>\n

The issue raises some genuine cultural questions, too. For instance:\u00a0Can authentic Chinese food be cooked without a flame or a wok? Can an electric stove produce the quick sear essential to certain cuisines?<\/p>\n

Chef and and sustainable cooking consultant\u00a0Christopher Galarza, who traces his ancestry to a tribe in the Amazon rainforest, says cooking his family\u2019s recipes is a way of connecting with that heritage. \u201cWhen folks say, \u2018You\u2019re trying to change how I cook,\u2019\u00a0they think you\u2019re trying to come after my heritage, my past.\u201d But Galarza, who\u2019s opened the country\u2019s first all-electric campus kitchen, argues that traditional cooking doesn\u2019t have to be done in traditional ways, such as over coals or wood.<\/p>\n

The debate is\u00a0front and center after a member of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said\u00a0this week that the government could\u00a0 prohibit gas stoves to curb indoor air pollution.\u00a0Blowback from lawmakers was so severe that the agency\u2019s head walked back the idea\u00a0days later.<\/p>\n

More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a92023 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For most home chefs forced to choose between gas ranges that heat quickly\u00a0or electric-coil stoves that are inefficient and ugly, the answer is simple: gas.\u00a0But there\u2019s a third option: induction stoves, which heat with a tightly controlled magnetic field rather than a flame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":8715689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"subheadline":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[162,182,187,812,10111,51690,161,179,184,51686,803,51712],"tags":[385,9905,39276],"feature":[],"location":[],"type-of-work":[50053],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"post_status":"","edit_last":0,"edit_lock":0,"highlights":"","original_byline":"","original_canonical":"","original_category":"","original_email":"","original_id":0,"original_pubdate":"","original_source":"","primary_section":"184","primary_tag":385,"print_workflow_body":{"deck_headline":"","print_title":"","print_subheadline":"","print_priority":"","print_placement":"cover","print_edition_date":"","print_pub_date":"","print_slug":"","print_content":"","print_budget_line":"","print_excerpt":"","print_notes":"","print_featured_gallery_richtext":"","print_inline_galleries_richtext":"","print_inline_images_richtext":""},"print_workflow_exported_ts":"","print_workflow_exported_username":"","print_workflow_shapes":"","print_workflow_side":{"print_section":52021,"print_status":9425,"add_export_buttons":""},"really_short_title":"Stoves: Gas vs. electric","short_title":"","market_neutral_title":"","social_title":"","dfm_hub_post_id":0,"paywall_level":"metered","featured_media_content":{"content_type":"image","content":{"id":8715689,"title":"SJM-GASSTOVES-1","filename":"SJM-GASSTOVES-1.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SJM-GASSTOVES-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2023\/01\/13\/gas-or-electric-talk-of-a-stove-ban-sparks-debate-about-which-cooks-better\/sjm-gasstoves-1-2\/","alt":"","author":"878","description":"","caption":"CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA – May 27: BE.STEAK.A junior sous-chef Nicholas Sexton cooks using a gas stove in the kitchen on May 27, 2022, in Campbell, Calif. 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