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by Karrot_Kream 1157 days ago
Partner and I are getting rid of our gas stove this year for induction. We're already running on induction on a small burner for most daily cooking, but when we do a large meal or cook for guests we need several burners. But my partner is from a culture that does Wok cooking and I'm from a culture that loves cooking different breads on grills. Our solution has been to use an Iwatani butane burner. It's already more efficient than the terrible stove that came with our house and it's small enough that I prefer grilling breads on it.

Bonus: we got hit by a 24 hour power outage in one of the storms and cooked solely using the Iwatani burner.

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> It's already more efficient than the terrible stove.

How are you calculating that? I highly doubt the total net environmental impact of butane canisters (including shipping and packaging) is lower than piped gas.

The net impact is definitely more than piped gas. I'm just saying it works as a backup.