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Cooking with gas or electricity? I've heard before that cooking with gas causes significantly more indoor air quality problems, but I'm curious what your obser
by gascan 8y ago
Cooking with gas or electricity?
I've heard before that cooking with gas causes significantly more indoor air quality problems, but I'm curious what your observations are.
- graeme 8y agoMy electric stove shoots my AQI through the roof when frying. Made me consider alternate ways to cook. Though, would like to know if gas is worse, as one alternative I was considering was Donabe, which requires gas.
- SECProto 8y agoA fume hood that keeps splatters in and vents a lot would work. I think it's just unavoidable that frying vaporizes/aerosolizes particles, so your options are either vent the contaminated air, or don't fry.
- graeme 8y agoSo gas that doesn't fry would be ok? Like, making a stew for example. Am wondering if the gas burning itself produces a lot of particulates. I don't think a fume hood is an option in my apartment unfortunately. (You can get a single gas burner to cook things in a donabe)
- gh02t 8y agoGas combusts pretty cleanly and doesn't release much. I personally wouldn't worry about particulates from cooking that much. Get an air purifier if you want, any decent one should be able to pull that stuff out of the air fairly quickly.
- graeme 8y agoWell, from frying the AQI was sometimes getting as high as 400. That seems...worrisome. (More typical is 70-150, but that's usually with windows open. Harder in winter)
- SECProto 8y agosorry, i was commenting on the cooking technique (frying) not the heating method. Electric will create less particulate than gas, no matter how efficient the gas. frying will create more particulate than boiling, probably. if you're in Japan (guessing from the donabe reference) you'd probably be better off avoiding restaurants (with their smoking and cooking residue et al) if you're too concerned :)
- graeme 8y agoActually not in japan. Just looked like a tasty, easy way to make meals and was interested in trying it. Nut unsure of the effects of the gas burner on indoor air pollution. A quick search suggests this may be a poor idea on air quality grounds: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a27/ https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a27/
- gascan 8y agoI think this is what I had originally read that made me curious. https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/the-hazards-of-cooking-with-gas https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/the-hazards-of-... This talks less about particulate, it seems. Electric clearly doesn't produce carbon monoxide or nitrogen dioxide.
- gh02t 8y agoCooking with gas doesn't release much particulate matter, but it does release volatile organic compounds. Most of it seems to be from the food itself; if you can smell it then there's stuff in the air. Any cooking involving oil seems to be the worst offender.