Comment Re:Safety reasons (Score 2, Informative) 125
Anytime you make heat you can have a fire. Given that the overwhelming number of Americans would rather die than cook, I doubt cooktops, ovens, and ranges are causing a significant number of fires. Me? I prefer cooking on electric coils but I also have a gas range, and it's fine.
"Cooking caused an average of 158,400 reported home structure fires per year (44 percent of all reported home fires in the US). These fires resulted in an average of 470 civilian deaths (18 percent of all home fire deaths) and 4,150 civilian injuries (42 percent of all reported home fire injuries) annually. Ranges or cooktops were involved in 53 percent of the reported home cooking fires, 88 percent of cooking fire deaths, and 74 percent of cooking fire injuries. Households with electric ranges had a higher risk of cooking fires and associated losses than those with gas ranges."
https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/home-cooking-fires
luckily people far smarter than you actually study this