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Electric or Natural Gas? What's your preference?

Show me one restaurant with an electric stovetop and I'll switch (just kidding, I'm not switching, but there is a reason chefs world-wide use gas on the stove). Oddly, I've been using duel-fuel for decades...gas stove + electric oven. The safety factor alone is worth it without regard for cooking characteristics.
 
Because of what I have seen and experienced with gas leaks over the years, I have safety concerns and don't want it in my house. Out on the deck it's ok but out there I am using lump charcoal in my smoker instead.
 
HayesGreener said:
Because of what I have seen and experienced with gas leaks over the years, I have safety concerns and don't want it in my house. Out on the deck it's ok but out there I am using lump charcoal in my smoker instead.
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Most people are dramatically misinformed about the dangers of natural gas. 99% of natural gas incidents involve no fire or explosion. In the rare case that does happen it’s almost always because someone hits an underground gas line and doesn’t know it or doesn’t report it. Gas migrates and if it gets into a sewer or a utility vault or a house and concentrates to between 4 and 14% it is explosive. Less than 4% isn’t enough gas to be explosive and more than 14% isn’t enough oxygen to be explosive. Almost all modern appliances have safety valves which stop the flow of gas in absence of a burning pilot light. And modern gas meters, which installing them currently constitutes all of my overtime, which is considerable, also have safety features predicated on pressure. In laymen’s terms what that means is if a fuel run in your house gets broken or if for any reason gas is flowing freely, lacking back pressure, the meter stops the flow of gas.


So the reality is that almost always when there is a building explosion it’s not because of a gas line in the building. Usually a contractor, like the ones AT&T are currently employing to install fiber, hits a gas main with a directional drill or a ram bore, then the gas migrates to a place where it can concentrate at which point almost anything can set it off. Doorbell, cell phone, static electricity. So if your neighbors have gas, you not having gas is doing almost nothing in the way of preventing your house from exploding due to natural gas accumulating. And in reality that almost never happens. The odds of winning the lottery are far greater. Natural gas is safer and more efficient and reliable than electric.


The more you know.
 
Bassbob said:
Most people are dramatically misinformed about the dangers of natural gas. 99% of natural gas incidents involve no fire or explosion. In the rare case that does happen it’s almost always because someone hits an underground gas line and doesn’t know it or doesn’t report it. Gas migrates and if it gets into a sewer or a utility vault or a house and concentrates to between 4 and 14% it is explosive. Less than 4% isn’t enough gas to be explosive and more than 14% isn’t enough oxygen to be explosive. Almost all modern appliances have safety valves which stop the flow of gas in absence of a burning pilot light. And modern gas meters, which installing them currently constitutes all of my overtime, which is considerable, also have safety features predicated on pressure. In laymen’s terms what that means is if a fuel run in your house gets broken or if for any reason gas is flowing freely, lacking back pressure, the meter stops the flow of gas.


So the reality is that almost always when there is a building explosion it’s not because of a gas line in the building. Usually a contractor, like the ones AT&T are currently employing to install fiber, hits a gas main with a directional drill or a ram bore, then the gas migrates to a place where it can concentrate at which point almost anything can set it off. Doorbell, cell phone, static electricity. So if your neighbors have gas, you not having gas is doing almost nothing in the way of preventing your house from exploding due to natural gas accumulating. And in reality that almost never happens. The odds of winning the lottery are far greater. Natural gas is safer and more efficient and reliable than electric.


The more you know.
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The Mr is a gas man, and he tells me lots of stuff and because of my mechanical background, I understand a lot of it. I did not know this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
 
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