Naturally, I’m a gas man, says mayor, choosing side in big debate over stoves

It’s probably the closest New York City’s mayor will come to saying they can take his stove when they pry it from his cold dead hands.

Mayor Adams waded into the gas stove debate Monday when he said he favors cooking with gas — making him the latest political figure to weigh in on the national debate over efforts to curtail their use over environmental and safety concerns.

Speaking at an unrelated press conference in the Bronx, Adams said he currently cooks with gas for one reason: it’s what good cooks, like himself, use.

“People don’t realize electric stoves can’t give you the right setting when you are cooking,” he said. “You know I’m a good cook, and that [an] electric stove just, it doesn’t cook for me.”

Adams — who has touted himself as a vegan, but walked that back after being spied eating fish — elaborated on his progas stance by suggesting it’s better when it comes to steaming, frying and boiling his grub.

“If I wanted steamed branzino or a vegan burger or whatever, you know — whatever I want to cook — if it’s steamed, if it’s fried, if it’s boiled, you know, I’m not imprisoned to what people think I should eat, I’m free to eat what I want to eat,” he said, laughing.

The debate over gas vs. electric stoves veered into the absurd earlier this month when Republicans railed against measures designed to favor electric stoves, given emissions from gas stoves and the threat climate change poses.

“I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) wrote on Twitter. “If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!”

That sort of heated rhetoric was a response to remarks made by Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, who told Bloomberg that “any option is on the table” while discussing health hazards associated with gas stoves.

“Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” Trumka said.

That debate has also landed at the feet of Gov. Hochul.

One proposal she floated during her State of the State address is a potential ban on the sale of fossil fuel-burning heating equipment, starting in 2030, and a requirement that new buildings use electric stoves.

But a spokeswoman for Hochul said recently that the ban on heating equipment does not include gas ranges.