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There are gas tanks.

by innocenat 5y ago

hannob 5y ago
Ok I guess I underestimated the amount of effort people are willing to put into nostalgia while cooking...
- chihuahua 5y ago
  Many houses in remote locations (in the U.S.) have large propane tanks outside the house, which are refilled periodically by a truck. So people are already doing this for reasons other than nostalgia.
  - handrous 5y ago
    Everyone with a propane grill—which is, like, every other house around here—already has a propane tank. You can go swap them out with full tanks at many grocery stores, when they're empty. It's pretty cheap—I'm not sure, but I wouldn't bet on electric being cheaper to cook with than propane. There are conversion kits for gas stoves. And yes, you're right, that's exactly what anyone out in the country with a gas stove already does (as you note, they've got those big propane tanks outside the house that get refilled every so often). [EDIT] natural gas (not propane) is definitely cheaper to heat with, here, than electric. All the HVAC guys don't even recommend heat pumps to supplement the furnace. They recommend putting the money toward higher-efficiency AC and gas furnace instead. They say they're good on paper but more expensive in practice, in our climate (Midwest). Outright electric heating is crazy expensive (I've had it, with a very new furnace even, and it was terrible, was paying a high premium for mediocre heating).
- mikestew 5y ago
  Effort? How about necessity? You think they were going to run gas lines to our house in Bumphuck, Indiana that sat 200m off the road (the road which, I guarantee you, did not have a gas line buried next to it)? Of course no one would be running gas lines, that's why we had a big LP tank to play on when I was a kid: https://www.homeimprovementbase.com/3-easy-steps-to-prepping-priming-and-painting-propane-tanks-safely/ https://www.homeimprovementbase.com/3-easy-steps-to-prepping...

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There are gas tanks.

by innocenat 5y ago

There are gas tanks.

hannob 5y ago
Ok I guess I underestimated the amount of effort people are willing to put into nostalgia while cooking...
- chihuahua 5y ago
  Many houses in remote locations (in the U.S.) have large propane tanks outside the house, which are refilled periodically by a truck. So people are already doing this for reasons other than nostalgia.
  - handrous 5y ago
    Everyone with a propane grill—which is, like, every other house around here—already has a propane tank. You can go swap them out with full tanks at many grocery stores, when they're empty. It's pretty cheap—I'm not sure, but I wouldn't bet on electric being cheaper to cook with than propane. There are conversion kits for gas stoves. And yes, you're right, that's exactly what anyone out in the country with a gas stove already does (as you note, they've got those big propane tanks outside the house that get refilled every so often). [EDIT] natural gas (not propane) is definitely cheaper to heat with, here, than electric. All the HVAC guys don't even recommend heat pumps to supplement the furnace. They recommend putting the money toward higher-efficiency AC and gas furnace instead. They say they're good on paper but more expensive in practice, in our climate (Midwest). Outright electric heating is crazy expensive (I've had it, with a very new furnace even, and it was terrible, was paying a high premium for mediocre heating).
- mikestew 5y ago
  Effort? How about necessity? You think they were going to run gas lines to our house in Bumphuck, Indiana that sat 200m off the road (the road which, I guarantee you, did not have a gas line buried next to it)? Of course no one would be running gas lines, that's why we had a big LP tank to play on when I was a kid: https://www.homeimprovementbase.com/3-easy-steps-to-prepping-priming-and-painting-propane-tanks-safely/ https://www.homeimprovementbase.com/3-easy-steps-to-prepping...