Lilsia
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- Feb 17, 2018
My mom refuses to cook on my gas stove (I also have a gas oven too but have a spill mat so she's not as worried) due to her thoughts on safety.
I kinda just employ normal safety things such as no having loose items like roomy sleeves (from a robe or something) and things hanging down. I totally get the children aspect. So far I've been cooking with gas for over 6 1/2 years total and though there aren't kids around it would be pretty difficult for a toy at least with ours to somehow make it into the flame itself with pots and pans on them at the time. We don't let an open flame just sit there.
We, and everyone we knew grew up with a gas stove. It was never an issue because our parents made sure that we knew the dangers of it. I guess it is just like any other danger in the house like 2nd story windows, etc. I think back to the stories that my grandma told me of how they had a dirt floor that her mom dug into to store the vegetables and how they had just an open fireplace to cook on. They all seemed to survive.