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It’s Time To Break Up With Our Gas Stoves | Climate Town

Climate Town · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Power grid, heating & buildingsClimate policy, solutions & debate

What it is

Climate Town argues for moving away from gas stoves. It covers the gas industry's decades of marketing and lobbying, health effects of gas cooking, methane leaks, and the case for induction.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it in gas stove and induction threads for exposing how the idea that gas is better for cooking was a marketing ploy.

  • 10 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “The YouTuber Climate Town did an excellent video on gas cooking”

    Exposes gas lobbyists and health effects, with citations

    Zenbit_UX, 2022-03 · Strong recommendation · in “The case for induction cooking”

  2. “Here's a great video on the topic by Climate Town, an awesome educator on climate change”

    Great educational video on gas dangers

    willio58, 2023-01 · Strong recommendation · in “A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves”

  3. “the decades of marketing and lobbying the natural gas industry has paid for”

    Gas industry marketing and lobbying against legislation

    UFOFlyer, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “New York City bans natural gas in new buildings”

  4. “What the video for someone putting it far more eloquently then I ever could.”

    Eloquent case for induction over gas

    katbyte, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “The case for induction cooking”

  5. “Climate Town has a good video on this subject.”

    Good video on getting rid of gas stoves

    bradlys, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “What a gas stove ban means for restaurants”

  6. “Induction stoves are awesome, normal electric stoves suck.”

    Case against gas stoves

    aiisjustanif, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “Tesla of Luxury Campers Will Make Airstreams Blush”

  7. “Watch this video about how the idea that gas was better for cooking was a marketing ploy”

    Gas cooking superiority was a marketing ploy

    diordiderot, 2022-11 · Recommendation · in “Barilla passive cooker”

  8. “climate town has a fun video about it”

    Fun video on natural gas propaganda

    LesZedCB, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: gas stoves, induction cooking, natural gas lobbying, building electrification, methane

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