I’m from the Philippines and I live just beside the sea and it is usual for some of us to still use propane gas stoves and firewoods when cooking. Our house has two kitchens in which other one is use for cooking in firewood.
Foreigners find it confusing why I still cook using firewoods despite having a kitchen inside the house. The reason is there are lots of dead woods and coconuts which we tend to gather and use as firewoods.
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Yes a significant number of houses use propane for heating and cooking. Some still use wood burners for heating as well.
Depending on the area, yes. Almost all of our gas appliances (stoves, furnaces) can be converted from natural gas to propane.
I have a propane stove and use propane for heat. I have a 500 gallon tank on my property that’s piped into the house. A truck comes once a month and tops off my tank. It’s extremely common for cooking and heat in my area. Wood fired stoves are common for heat as well, there’s abundant wood in the nearby forest and winter is long and cold.
Some. I live in community with a large Amish population and they all use propane or wood stoves for cooking as we’re too far away from natural gas utility lines. A couple of my neighbors have them, as well, just because the homes are all older and the stoves have been there since before electrical lines were installed.
Propane is pretty common. Basically any natural gas appliance can also use propane with a simple gasket switch — many come with both kinds and you simply put the right one on when you buy it. Heating with wood is a thing but cooking with wood is pretty rare, more of a novelty.
Wood stoves can be used for heating, but they are rare. I have known one person in 40 years to have one.
Propane is more common in rural areas. Where natural gas has not been ran.
Sure in my area if you want gas in your house for heat, hot water heater, stove, etc. you have a propane tank that runs everything. I heat my house with a wood stove and on occasion when the power goes out in the winter I will cook on it.
I’m going to guess most people on this thread don’t really know what rural is. Wood stoves are extremely common for heating.
I’ve seen some people, mostly old timers cook on them too. My grandmother used to. She didn’t see the sense in starting up the regular kitchen stove when the wood stove was already hot and ready to go.
Natural gas is used in cities, while propane is used in rurals… and everyone Hass a BBQ pit for cooking over wood. But it’s outside
I do, we have a lot of power outages so having propane for a generator is good.
For cooking, nobody uses wood anymore, but gas is very common. Whether it’s natural straight from the mains in urban areas, or propane in rural areas.
Heating is a different story though. Here in the north east a lot of people still have fireplaces and/or wood stoves that they use regularly.
Yes, my grandparents do
We use propane as do our neighbors because there aren’t gas lines to our semi rural neighborhood. Lot of folks in my area use propane or electric.
In the summer, many families around here will cook outside with wood, charcoal, or propane gas at least once a week.
I live in rural Iowa. In my area I’d say propane is the #1 source for heating homes. For cooking it really just depends on the person. I have an electric stove, other people might have a gas stove.
Yes 100%
Edit: to clarify, not necessarily for everyday cooking, but propane and wood for some cooking appliances are still widespread here.
Propane gas stoves yes. I don’t know anybody that has a wood stove used for cooking it’s generally used to heat the house and is usually in the basement or in a room off to itself.
I live kind of rural in Alaska. Some of my friends and family have gas stoves, but most of us have electric stoves.
A few people have woods stoves that they can also cook on top of in addition to a regular stove. That’s good for slow-cook things like soups, but not great for skillet things.
My house still runs off of propane, I have a big 500 gallon tank outside my house. My in laws have a wood burning stove but it’s mainly used in the winter to save on electricity.
Definitely propane if they want to taste the meat, not the heat, and appreciate a clean-burning, energy-efficient fuel.
yeah, my g/f’s family has not only a propane stove but also uses solely wood heat in the winter. They live out in the sticks.
Absolutely. Propane especially.
I’d say using propane is not common in southern states…. Most people have electric stoves and all apartments use electric as well….. Although having wood stoves and wood heaters are really common
Propane stoves (as well as other household devices like furnaces and water heaters) is very common in rural areas. Wood stoves are relatively common for a cheap way to heat parts of the house, but they’re not generally the kind you can cook on. It’s pretty rare to see someone cooking on a wood stove in the US.
I grew up in a suburb 25 miles from
Boston and tons of people used wood for heat.
Natural gas is harder to come by in some rural areas. With less people and them being further apart, it would be very expensive to run pipes only to connect a few homes. Also in rural areas your house could be set back from the road adding to the issue. I had natural gas in the densely populated part of Massachusetts that I lived in. Here in rural Tennessee the folks in town have access to natural gas but I live outside of town so we have propane.