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0 pointstomp2y ago0 comments

Are you a doctor?

This one doctor (whom I probably trust the most of online doctors) disagrees.

https://peterattiamd.com/putting-out-the-fire-on-the-gas-sto...

> For example, the analysis included multiple studies that found an association between gas cooking and respiratory disease in children but variously failed to evaluate parental smoking habits, indoor smoke, pet ownership, or outdoor pollution as other possible factors which might underlie the observed associations. In other words, we must interpret these conclusions with a high degree of caution.

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gwbas1c2y ago

Indoor pollution from a gas stove has more to do with how the building was built.

Older construction leaks a lot more air than newer construction, primarily due to changes in code. More specifically, the air in an older home, from the 1980s, might change over every four hours or so. In a newer home built to modern building codes, it's eight or ten hours.

CydeWeys2y ago

Hours is still an awfully long time to have dangerous chemicals floating around in your air after each time you cook a meal.

My apartment has a gas stove, which I was was induction. The gas stove plus the lack of a hood that vents to the outside means the indoor air quality gets pretty messed up. I usually have to open some windows when cooking, which is not great in winter.

amluto2y ago

Your stove may well cause quite dangerous NOx in rather less than 4 hours:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707/suppl...

See the last page.

What you need is a real vent that vents outside. Or a stove that doesn’t emit NOx (and carbon monoxide, etc).

Frankly this whole thing is a bit absurd. Everyone ought to know that flue gas from a furnace or water heater is extremely dangerous when it ends up indoors. Why are gas stoves ever considered okay?

topaz02y ago

No, but I will be by the end of next week.

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