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[Jimmy-T]

High profile apartment developers pledge to drop gas stoves from new apartments in favour of electrical induction cooktops.

[See the full post at: Developers dump gas stovetops for induction]

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[HappyNow]

What does this mean for our gas bbqs?

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[Jimmy-T]

HappyNow wrote:

What does this mean for our gas bbqs?

Not much. It won’t even affect your gas stovetops until such times as you renovate – and even then.  These restrictions are on new kitchens in new buildings.

But you can expect to see “progressive” individual buildings move towards grand-fathering existing gas barbecues but insisting on electric ones when the old one is replaced or a new owner comes in.

Can they do that?  If your barbecue is on your balcony (in NSW) then it’s effectively on common property and the strata committee can determine what is allowed or not allowed.

There is little logic, to any of this, however. Everybody is getting (rightly) het up about cigarette smoke, yet we are allowed to fill our neighbours’ flats with the stink and fumes for burning meat (also carcinogenic).  Barbecues are sacrosanct so I wouldn’t worry too much.

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[Sir Humphrey]

HappyNow wrote:

What does this mean for our gas bbqs?

You can use bottled gas for a BBQ. Our site has a lot of trees so we always have more than enough wood for a communal wood-fired pizza oven and BBQ.

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[Jimmy-T]

A wood-fired oven? O, the fumanity!

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[LoveTheView]

This is excellent news.  For those who do not agree, I suggest you read “The Big Switch” by Saul Griffith.  We need to transform our infrastructure, update our grid and adapt our households.  So it is essential to move residences away from fossil fuelled heating and cooking as fast as possible.  It’s a no-brainer to commit to this for new builds.

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