https://pantuso.com/tags/opinion/ Recent content in Opinion on Joe Pantuso Hugo en-us Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://pantuso.com/posts/fossil-fuels-immoral/ Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://pantuso.com/posts/fossil-fuels-immoral/ <p>This is a moral claim, not a policy claim. I&rsquo;m not making an argument about carbon taxes or the Green New Deal or what the federal government should mandate. I&rsquo;m saying that choosing to burn fossil fuels when viable alternatives exist is, at this point, a morally wrong choice — the same way it was morally wrong to choose a discriminatory vendor when non-discriminatory alternatives were available, even before it was illegal.</p> 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>