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On Monday, Bloomberg reported the Consumer Product Safety Commission would consider a ban on gas stoves , causing everyone from Republican politicians to cooks on Twitter to promptly lose their minds and begin insulting electric stoves.   If you were among them, don’t panic: A gas stove ban is unlikely, especially in the immediate future. Here’s the thing, though: Maybe we should ban gas stoves. A growing body of research suggests gas stoves can be dangerous to live and breathe around, while electric stoves aren’t. Plus, electric stoves are pretty great, actually, and wholly undeserving of their crappy reputation. Here are four reasons why. Electric stoves don’t leak methane or nitrogen dioxide into your house A huge benefit to electric stoves is that they don’t use gas and therefore can’t leak it into your house. More and more research shows that gas stoves do exactly this: In 2022, researchers from Stanford University found that gas stoves emit methane gas via “post-meter lea...

Photo : PandaStudio ( Shutterstock ) Gas stoves are the latest innocuous item to turn into a culture war symbol, due to rumors that they might, at some point in the future, be banned . But are gas stoves really that bad for us? Are government agents going to come and take them away? And if the health concerns are real, are we doomed? The government is not coming to take your gas stove If you’ve been paying attention to the political controversy, you may have noticed conservative figures yelling about how they are prepared to physically defend their gas ranges from government intervention. I guess some folks like the hero fantasy, where they get to imagine grabbing their guns to engage in a glorious battle over the honor of their old Maytag. But realistically, even if gas stoves were to be banned, this is not how banning works. G/O Media may get a commission Up to $100 credit Samsung Reserve Reserve the next gen Samsung device All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom...