The gas stove myth

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The oil industry spent decades convincing Americans that there was something special about cooking with gas. Rebecca Leber (@RebLeber) explains. Read Rebecca’s story: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/02/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-convinced-americans-to-love-gas-stoves/ This episode was made by: Host: Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer Producer: Sofi LaLonde (@sofilalonde) Engineer: Paul Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
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0:08.9	the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.4	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
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0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:21.4	Hey, it's Adam.
0:22.7	Just a reminder that we're on a break for the next couple weeks.
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0:28.8	In the meantime, here is one of our favorites from this year.
0:46.2	Do you have a gas stove or an electric one? There seems to be this conventional wisdom that gas stoves are better, but are they really? The oil industry has spent decades convincing
0:53.0	us that gas stoves are indeed better,
0:55.1	especially when it comes to cooking. But gas stoves have a downside. They're very harmful to the
1:00.1	environment and maybe to you. Here to explain is Rebecca Lieber, senior climate reporter here
1:05.1	at Vox. She wrote this story back when she was at Mother Jones. Hey, Rebecca. Hey. So tell me exactly
1:10.6	why gas stoves are perceived to be better than electric.
1:15.6	Like, what's the story of how they became king of the kitchen here?
1:20.7	That myth is the result of almost a century of marketing from the gas industry itself.
1:26.9	My reporting showed that starting in the 1930s, the industry... a century of marketing from the gas industry itself.
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