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[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

In the article they mention that there's specialty ovens that are apparently only available to work with natural gas for making the perfect bagel.

The article also summarizes my opinion that if natural gas is making people sick and contributing to their displacement, then it's pretty easy to do without bagels.

I also kind of refuse to believe that it would be impossible to make an electric bagel oven. Innovate or die, you know?

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago

Don't let perfect become the enemy of good enough. If electric ovens can make good enough bagels, then there's no argument against not using them.

[–] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 7 points 11 hours ago

Not saying this was a better solution for emissions - but the best bagel I had came from a wood fired oven. I can't imagine there would be a significant difference in quality between electric and gas. It's not about quality.

I can imagine that they would need to expend $$ on purchasing new equipment.