For Feng Shui practitioners this is a quite controversial theme, however, this is due basically to the quality and quantity of the Fire element , the most Yang energy there is.
Back in the ancient times, we could only cook with fire and for a long time it was our only resource, so many of the Feng Shui studies about this theme where referring to fire itself.
Nowadays, a gas stove also provides a flame, that for most cookers and chefs are the best for cooking, but electric stoves only provide heat and so fire energy as we know it is definitely weaker.
In terms of health, ingesting foods that have been cooked via microwave, electric ovens or induction stovetops disturb the electrical fields in our body, and numerous studies have linked the electro-pollution emitted by them to inflammation, neurological damage, cataracts and even cancer.
Macrobiotics for example, is based on ancient Chinese medicine that appreciates the dynamic symmetry of opposing yet complementary forces necessary to life and health, the balance between Yin and Yang.
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