https://pantuso.com/tags/cooking/ Recent content in Cooking on Joe Pantuso Hugo en-us Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://pantuso.com/posts/gas-stoves-are-a-lie/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://pantuso.com/posts/gas-stoves-are-a-lie/ <p>Gas stoves are not better. They never were. The &ldquo;chefs prefer gas&rdquo; narrative is a fossil fuel industry marketing success story that got so deep into culinary culture that people now defend it as though it were a principle rather than a preference built on a manufactured consensus.</p> <p>Let me be specific.</p> <hr> <h2 id="what-gas-is-actually-good-at">What gas is actually good at</h2> <p>Gas provides instant visual feedback. You can see the flame, and the flame responds immediately when you turn the dial. This is psychologically satisfying and does provide some real precision for certain tasks — charring peppers directly on the burner, for instance. Some professional kitchens use very high BTU burners that can achieve temperatures impossible on residential equipment, gas or otherwise.</p>