Love the flame, not the fuel: should you give up cooking with gas?

Beloved by chefs and home cooks alike, gas-burning stovetops come with drawbacks for human, financial and planetary health

Nikki Phillips has made a living cooking in strangers' kitchens. As the co-owner of a catering company, Shared Affair, she always makes a request before arriving at a client's home. I ... ask for a picture of the stove, so I know what we're dealing with."

If the photos show the clapped-out coils of an older electric stove, she goes straight to plan B. I just bring gas burners with us. I don't even bother." Between portable stoves and hot box ovens we can set up a kitchen inside the kitchen".