By now, all Twitchy readers are certainly familiar with the phrase that describes how Democrat and leftist politics work:
'It's not happening and it's good that it is.'
We've seen it time and again with controversial issues, the most horrific of which is puberty blockers and gender surgeries on minors. They deny and deny and deny. And when they can't deny it anymore, they tell us how great it is that these things are taking place.
It's no different with gas stoves. When news first circulated that Democrats wanted to ban gas stoves in Americans' homes, the politicians and their media lapdogs laughed it off, calling it a 'right-wing extremist conspiracy theory.' Then, it became impossible to deny when New York Governor Kathy Hochul, among others, actually instituted a ban on gas stoves in any new construction. Of course, a little dash of hypocrisy and hierarchy have to be thrown into the mix, such as Gretchen Whitmer and Kamala Harris proudly posing in front of THEIR gas stoves.
So, now we have reached the '... it's good that it is,' phase of Democrat policy, wherein they try to scare anyone and everyone from ever using a gas stove again. The latest effort in this front is a new 'study' which claims that gas stoves emit dangerous NANO-PARTICLES (ooooh, scary word) that are more harmful than wrapping your lips around a car's exhaust pipe ... which the Post embarrassingly confuses with a car's muffler in the tweet below.
Cooking on a gas stove? It may be 100 times more dangerous than a car’s muffler, study finds https://t.co/RfYBZO6VqU pic.twitter.com/t13R32ss6N
— New York Post (@nypost) March 15, 2024
Seriously?
Researchers from Purdue University found that gas stoves released nano-sized particles that leave people with an increased risk of asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
'These super tiny nano-particles are so small that you’re not able to see them,' associate professor Brandon Boor from Purdue’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering told Southwest News Service on Friday. 'They’re not like dust particles you would see floating in the air.'
'After observing such high concentrations of nano-cluster aerosol during gas cooking, we can’t ignore these nano-sized particles anymore,' he ominously added.
The lapdog media adding in that word 'ominously' at the end was a particularly nice apparatchik touch, we thought.
News flash for Purdue 'researchers' and The New York Post: people have been using gas stoves since the 1820s and we're doing just fine, thank you very much.
It's also important to note that these 'nano-particles' are not even classified as harmful pollutants or something that causes respiratory problems ... just something that COULD cause them. But of course, the 'experts' want them to be harmful.
One of our favorite chefs in America, Andrew Gruel, laid into the 'study' with no holds barred.
Let’s talk about this study, because of course they didn’t link it. First and foremost, let’s get to the ending first. “The study concludes you should cook with an exhaust fan” What?? That’s already a rule!! They did the study in a small fake room (pictured below) representing… https://t.co/dkt89tQ8Uw pic.twitter.com/mC6CcM0CWx
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) March 15, 2024
Here is the full tweet:
Let’s talk about this study, because of course they didn’t link it. First and foremost, let’s get to the ending first. “The study concludes you should cook with an exhaust fan” What?? That’s already a rule!! They did the study in a small fake room (pictured below) representing the smallest apartments in NYC with no ventilation and then produced results. NO EXHAUST FAN!! Mind you, exhaust fans are already mandatory. And still even in this fake environment, created to produce a study with this headline to try and justify the bans on gas stoves, they didn’t even conclude it will be an asthma risk. They speculate it “could”. This is JUNK SCIENCE.
And they wonder why no one trusts 'the science' anymore.
Others were content just to give this 'research' -- and the extremely poorly worded headline from the Post -- the mockery it so richly deserved.
Does this study take into account the fumes I'll inhale while cooking dinner on the muffler of a running car? https://t.co/5yQHS2dTfN
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) March 15, 2024
Doesn't sound like the conditions for this ridiculous comparison to car mufflers followed the scientific method now, does it?
This is the reason I cook every meal on my truck's muffler. https://t.co/QQBeotm2lT
— G (@stevensongs) March 15, 2024
I once made an incredible beef wellington with my car’s muffler. https://t.co/MUE6QCLQUQ
— Fingers Malloy (@FingersMalloy) March 15, 2024
WHAT? And you didn't invite us? [Editor's Note: Beef Wellington is awesome.]
You guys know cooking on a muffler is not what the term “tailgate party” means. https://t.co/0Oe6TMph01
— Brad Slager: Flips On The Highbeams In Fog Of War (@MartiniShark) March 15, 2024
LOL. We've been doing it wrong all these years.
My car’s muffler never bothered nobody. #EndMufflerHate https://t.co/hW2rgF8gwS
— TheMorningSpew2 (@TheMorningSpew2) March 15, 2024
Mufflers keep things nice and quiet, just how we like it.
Not falling for that again pic.twitter.com/gDmLoixi4E
— Marc Cocteaustan (@Igor_Cocteau) March 15, 2024
HA. Excellent Beverly Hills Cop reference.
Have they done exhaustive research on this?
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) March 15, 2024
Hey, let's leave the jokes and the puns to The Babylon Bee, okay?
If you’re cooking on a muffler, I’m not sure your problem is the gas stove https://t.co/VlrWVF3ttA
— J (@UpNorth_Tory371) March 15, 2024
Just bought a gas stove with a double oven. Can't wait to get both ovens and all five burners going at once! https://t.co/LwyJt8jYEu
— Liberty🗽Bella - Save The Children! (@DreamWeaver61) March 15, 2024
BE UNGOVERNABLE.
My Kitchen, My Choice
— Jason McLaren (@McLarenInc) March 15, 2024
Don't turn our kitchens into The Handmaid's Tale.
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) March 15, 2024
And don't you DARE cook that sweet little Frog of Shame.
Of course, some people should never be anywhere near
— Hobson - Please Stop That (@chimera246) March 15, 2024
a stove, or decision making... pic.twitter.com/zXt0OJPjXk
Ouch. What in the world was Faucahontas trying to cook there? We think that dish probably has more carcinogens in it than all the car mufflers in the world.
Step 1: Don't link to study
— End the Simpsons (@EndTheSimpsons) March 15, 2024
Step 2: Conflate "muffler" and "exhaust"
Step 3: Post for engagement
Step 4: Get ratio'd
Don't be too hard on them. They're 'journalists.' They don't really know anything, they just pretend to.
Propaganda, study finds. https://t.co/LwqFYT33pw
— Lou Granite (@TheCriticsSay) March 15, 2024
What a much more succinct headline. The Post should have gone with that one.
“Assault Stoves” are back. https://t.co/u2oCWV4bYg
— ZNO 🇺🇸 (@therealZNO) March 15, 2024
Your stove is a WEAPON OF WAR.
Oh,screw this. Gas stoves are not dangerous for
— @_starandrea78 (@_starandrea78) March 15, 2024
cooking and who cooks on a muffler? 😂😂😂
Get out of here.. https://t.co/3UVYDui2kP
Screw this, indeed. Or, as another tweet put it:
Don't tread on my gas stove. I like to live dangerously. pic.twitter.com/rICpGv8euF
— N3oshi ✨ (@TehManager) March 15, 2024
The researchers at Purdue can stick to cooking up totally bogus studies about 'nano-particles.'
We'll stick to cooking on our -- very safe -- gas stoves, thank you very much.
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