What we’re really fighting about when we fight about gas stoves

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Americans are drawing battle lines over their appliance of choice, but the new culture war goes beyond our kitchens, Karen Heller writes.

, as they are wont to tell you, the Tesla owners of the kitchen. They are free from the guilt and worry that gas stoves now emit.

Hudson’s clients who like contemporary design favor induction; those who prefer traditional design, often dwelling in older homes, want gas ranges, such as the models from, which can clock in at nearly $80,000. Hudson says the love for big, metallic fortresses of fire “is male-driven. They look like locomotives.” Consider the names: Viking, Wolf.

room, and the stove its hearth. The room is a repository of memory. It is a venue for reinvention, often the first room to be remodeled,to express identity and ownership, wealth and taste. The kitchen is also the first room to become dated, as anyone who grew up with an avocado-colored stove can attest. The fridge provides storage. The dishwasher does the stuff we don’t want to do. But the range is about skill and desire.

“My clients are not happy about the possibility,” says kitchen designer Jennifer Gilmer, with showrooms in Maryland and Virginia. “The consensus is that people have been cooking with gas for hundreds of years without any consequences, so why the sudden concern?”June Consumer Reports survey

 

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I just wonder how power grids would keep up if everyone switched to electric stoves on top of cars.

Just leave me and my rice cooker alone and we wont have any problems

There's no culture war on stoves; You're being duped by right-wing media to lead up to the next election to drive fake outrage

No, Americans are not fighting over appliance choices. Rather, nutcase media hypes obscure report which mainstream stream then picks up and does the same when Americans couldn't give less of a shite about it

That 35% of us don't get to choose what appliances we have because we are stuck renting?

wapo please stop amplying every nonsense right wing cultural grievance. if they want to meltdown over gas stoves, let them. nobody cares but them.

“Culture war” aka libs want to micromanage everyone and normal people say enoughs enough

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