Get ready to wait longer for your spaghetti dinner.
The latest proposal could go even further to hamper gas cooking, which is used in 40% of American households. The proposed standards also would apply to electric cooktops but are less stringent. According to the department, 80% of current electric stovetops already meet the standard, compared with 4% of gas stoves on the market today that would meet the new standard for gas appliances.
“Gas cooktops would continue to have the full range of available burner sizes under the proposed standards, including high input-rate burners, to maintain the same boiling time on all cookware, since consumers boil different amounts of water in different-sized pots,” the Energy Department spokesman told The Times.
Manufacturers say they can’t achieve the new standards without making changes to the stoves. Options include reducing burner size and substituting flat, cast-iron burners now found on high-end models for European-style cooking grates. Even though the Energy Department cannot dictate stove design, Ms. Notini said, “They can prescribe levels, and they allow the manufacturers to get there through their testing.”
Rachael Wilfong, an energy and climate researcher for the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the department’s proposed gas stove efficiency standards would cut energy use by only about 3% over the average 14-year life of the appliance.
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