Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
There’s an unspoken racial element to the removal of gas stoves.
If you need to cook with a wok for 15 minutes or char some peppers, you’re destroying the environment. But if you need to run an electric oven for an hour to bake a pie or casserole and create 10x the carbon footprint, you’re saving the environment.
And no, woks don’t work as well on induction, unless you have those spherical induction stoves that aren’t available outside of China. And an oven broiler is no where as good for charring peppers.
Edit: Love it when people who don’t even own a wok will try to explain your own ethnic cuisine to you, whitewash the kitchen, and then pretend to be concerned about your health when it’s always been about control.
I’m from Hong Kong, which statistically has the longest lifespan in the world. We use gas stoves just fine. Stop pretending that it’s anything other than the lack of universal healthcare that’s killing you.
This isn’t just about saving the environment, but sure. There’s also the public health element of removing a major source of indoor air pollution that’s detrimental to the residents of these units. These units aren’t equipped with range hoods that can adequately ventilate the space, even if they’re being used every time someone cooks.
I had no problem buying a portable induction wok “burner” outside of China; they were literally $50 USD at our local Costco a few weeks ago and that was including the kinda-cheap-but-more-than-adequate stamped carbon steel wok. I didn’t even go looking for it and it found me. I’ve also had no problems charring peppers, onions, or ginger by just placing a pan over the stove element and sticking them on the pan when it’s hot.
Why do people act like not using a gas powered stove is akin to stripping away some fundamental right?
I grew up in a part of the world where electric stoves are the vast vast majority and have been since the introduction of electricity. We cook just fine. Chill.
Wanna know where this cruel, backwards part of the world is? It’s fucking Tennessee.
So? If you can’t figure out how to adapt your cooking methods to other hardware, that’s a skill issue.
Did you know that NYC has a ban on using coal for cooking indoors? Except that there’s a carve out for pizzerias that already had coal fired pizza ovens. New Yorkers are crazy and I just eat pizza in NJ. I ain’t eating coal pizza.
There’s an unspoken racial element to the removal of gas stoves.
If you need to cook with a wok for 15 minutes or char some peppers, you’re destroying the environment. But if you need to run an electric oven for an hour to bake a pie or casserole and create 10x the carbon footprint, you’re saving the environment.
And no, woks don’t work as well on induction, unless you have those spherical induction stoves that aren’t available outside of China. And an oven broiler is no where as good for charring peppers.
Edit: Love it when people who don’t even own a wok will try to explain your own ethnic cuisine to you, whitewash the kitchen, and then pretend to be concerned about your health when it’s always been about control.
I’m from Hong Kong, which statistically has the longest lifespan in the world. We use gas stoves just fine. Stop pretending that it’s anything other than the lack of universal healthcare that’s killing you.
This isn’t just about saving the environment, but sure. There’s also the public health element of removing a major source of indoor air pollution that’s detrimental to the residents of these units. These units aren’t equipped with range hoods that can adequately ventilate the space, even if they’re being used every time someone cooks.
I had no problem buying a portable induction wok “burner” outside of China; they were literally $50 USD at our local Costco a few weeks ago and that was including the kinda-cheap-but-more-than-adequate stamped carbon steel wok. I didn’t even go looking for it and it found me. I’ve also had no problems charring peppers, onions, or ginger by just placing a pan over the stove element and sticking them on the pan when it’s hot.
Theyre replacing a bunch of low-end gas stoves that couldn’t do the kind of heat that people use for a that kind of wok cooking anyways.
Why do people act like not using a gas powered stove is akin to stripping away some fundamental right?
I grew up in a part of the world where electric stoves are the vast vast majority and have been since the introduction of electricity. We cook just fine. Chill.
Wanna know where this cruel, backwards part of the world is? It’s fucking Tennessee.
So? If you can’t figure out how to adapt your cooking methods to other hardware, that’s a skill issue.
Did you know that NYC has a ban on using coal for cooking indoors? Except that there’s a carve out for pizzerias that already had coal fired pizza ovens. New Yorkers are crazy and I just eat pizza in NJ. I ain’t eating coal pizza.