There’s a deep divide in the effort to reduce climate change – and it’s in the kitchen. Beloved for its spark and sizzle, the gas stove is increasingly restricted in new residential and commercial building construction in more than 50 California cities and counties, according to the nonprofit SPUR, a […]
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Once the giant propane-powered griddle was assembled on the porch of my parents’ house, friends and family members passed by in succession, many confused about what you would do with such a vast cooking surface. Not my sister, though. She got the idea right away. “I want to cover that […]
“I’m having my kitchen redone and am torn about whether to get a gas or induction hob. Help!”Hayley, Lancaster “I don’t know anyone who has converted to induction who wants to go back,” says food writer and broadcaster Tim Hayward. The benefits of not cooking on gas, he says, are […]
BERKELEY — The most luxurious gas stoves and ovens a home chef could desire fill the cavernous Snyder Diamond showroom in Van Nuys, but the cooking appliance the owner seems most excited about doesn’t use gas at all — or look like an appliance. “You don’t even see it,” Russ Diamond […]
The American stovetop is increasingly a battleground in a war over the fate of the 70 million buildings powered by natural gas. On one side of the stove wars is the natural gas utility industry, which has tried to thwart cities considering phasing out gas in buildings. One of its […]