Cooking with gas

[thollandpe]

Pulled from the pasta alla vigliacca thread...

Great recipe and very good insight into making an excellent sauce. Just one thing that is mostly off base. It's this part:

'If you have an electric stove, carry it out to the curb and replace with a gas stove before beginning'

Most serious cooks that I know would never let an electric stove become a constraint, but instead they would adapt their technique to the tools they have. Note that in episodes of 'The French Chef' Julia Child's iconic cooking show she used an electric range exclusively. Almost everyone knows she cooked circles around virtually everyone of her peers then and most professionals since.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-french...n-soup-dv2ts5/

Not as bad as an unvented gas heating appliance (talk about something that should be dragged to the curb) but cooking with gas does not help indoor air quality.

Kill Your Gas Stove
It’s bad for you, and the environment. If you can afford to avoid it, you probably should. – The Atlantic

Gas stoves making indoor air up to five times dirtier than outdoor air, report finds
Gas cookers making people sick and exposing tens of millions to air pollution levels that would be illegal if they were outside– The Guardian