Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected
  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    My family has been smoking cigarettes using gas stoves for generations

    If smoking age is raised gas stoves aren’t sold anymore, Biden will come take it from my home!

    My father’s father lived a happy life with cancer from smoking cooking daily on an unventilated gas stove, and died happily at 53. I never met him.

    Look around. Point to me the people walking around who are dead from smoking cooking daily over an unventilated gas stove.

  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Nitrogen dioxide is a made up liberal democratic fake new word. Sounds like something a socialist marxist communists college professor would brain wash into students.

    I’ve been using a stove forever. I’ve never seen this so called nitrogen dioxide. Smell that steam (cough cough). Don’t look at the marks on the ceiling. It’s a fine dust that sticks to everything. Can you open the window wide? I’ve been getting the strangest headaches when cooking lately.

  • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I live in a rural area. Electricity goes out for like a week pretty consistently every year.

    I’ve got a propane generator, but running a stove off of it rather than just using the propane to run the stove seems silly. If power goes out for too long, I’ll turn the generator off, be without electricity, but still be able to cook.

    The health risks of propane seem pretty marginal to me. If I were going to try to change my energy sources for health reasons my wood heat setup would be much higher priority.

    • Zekas@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Cool but this is more for when there’s an alternative. You have to take that risk, whatever, but if you don’t, maybe it’s time to reconsider.

      • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Because the thing that knocks out the power is freezing rain / snow mixes. When that’s happening I conclusively prefer being inside.

        And replacing my current setup with a similarly function primarily-electric setup would be expensive even ignoring my preference for being partially off-grid. Right now I don’t have 220V to my kitchen at all. Decent induction stoves aren’t cheap, especially with space constraints. My cookware is all appropriate for an open flame (e.g. cast iron, enameled cast iron) and while it may work with an induction setup it wouldn’t be optimal there.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    My house came with a gas stove. I can replace it but obviously it will cost a lot. I also know it’s usually good to not throw a working appliance out even if it’s not as efficient. I’m just wondering with everything on the table, should I throw out my gas stove? It’s really hard for me to weigh the pros and cons because it’s not clear how bad the cons are. Its obviously bad to use a gas stove but just how bad is it?

  • ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’m not a gas stove purist but I just wanted to put forth a point which I don’t see raised here- my cultural food is quite bit reliant on an open flame for things such as daily bread and the occasional vegetable or meat roasting. I have used an electric stove for it in the past but the results are nowhere close.

    My entire country has only ever cooked on gas stoves as far as I know so I would love for this study to also be conducted in my country because I don’t know where the adverse effects of gas stoves would have been manifesting in the people around me since I see most people here live full lives.

  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    My great great grandfather tested an electric stove in 1927. It was horrible. He wrote using a fountain pen in his journal using cursive that I should never buy one.

  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Ha ha. All these people think:

    • Biden Clause is going to visit every one of their homes one day, rip out their gas stove, leaving a huge hole in the wall
    • Force everyone to buy from the Trump Election Fund PAC Democrat store for a markup
    • Buy their electricity from the Haliburton Democrat electric company
    • Or face punishment by the watweboarding Blackwater company pardoned by Trump Democrats
    • And all that money will funnel to Trump’s son in law’s businesses in Saudi Arabia Democrat pockets