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I got a Air quality monitor that does TVOC, Pm2.5, CO and CO2 recently and even with a hood extractor its amazing the amount of air quality reduction that cooki

I got a Air quality monitor that does TVOC, Pm2.5, CO and CO2 recently and even with a hood extractor its amazing the amount of air quality reduction that cooking produces. Even using an electric oven the process of browning bread will increase particles, CO and CO2. Frying with gas produces a concerning amount of everything.

acidburnNSA 3y ago
Yeah, I also measured at my house. I was amazed at how much bad stuff comes from just heating food, regardless of energy source. All this stuff about gas cooking being bad for you completely ignores the impact of just heating food. That said, anything that moves people away from gas is progress, I guess. Just would like to see priorities on transportation and heating sectors more than the tiny fraction of emissions that come from stovetops.
- nomel 3y ago
  > anything that moves people away from gas is progress, Where I am, our electricity during dinner time is entirely from gas power plants, and that electricity costs is several times more than the gas, not including the several thousands of dollars required to run the lines required, if I wanted to convert my range. I do dream of induction though. Until then, I have an automatic hood fan that turns on whenever the oven is on, and vents to the outside.
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  It's not just the stovetop it's the entire infrastructure dedicated to distribution and production of natural gas. Transportation needs to be addressed, sure. The reality is that shifting residential utilities to electric largely shifts the burden to residents. Cleaning up transportation gets a similar amount of pushback but burdens the government with the cost of improvement. To be fair, parts of California (given that California is leading the anti-gas charge) are actively working on cleaning up transit. But it's slow going.
  - jxramos 3y ago
    I've been interested in these backyard methane producers https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-4 https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-4. I see people make homebrewed ones out of IBC containers and stuff like that. One of these days I'll get my hands on one of these things. For as cheap as natural gas is it'll take forever to pay for itself if it ever would. But it's a cool idea for self sufficiency sort of things.

acidburnNSA 3y ago

Yeah, I also measured at my house. I was amazed at how much bad stuff comes from just heating food, regardless of energy source. All this stuff about gas cooking being bad for you completely ignores the impact of just heating food. That said, anything that moves people away from gas is progress, I guess. Just would like to see priorities on transportation and heating sectors more than the tiny fraction of emissions that come from stovetops.

nomel 3y ago
> anything that moves people away from gas is progress, Where I am, our electricity during dinner time is entirely from gas power plants, and that electricity costs is several times more than the gas, not including the several thousands of dollars required to run the lines required, if I wanted to convert my range. I do dream of induction though. Until then, I have an automatic hood fan that turns on whenever the oven is on, and vents to the outside.
inferiorhuman 3y ago
It's not just the stovetop it's the entire infrastructure dedicated to distribution and production of natural gas. Transportation needs to be addressed, sure. The reality is that shifting residential utilities to electric largely shifts the burden to residents. Cleaning up transportation gets a similar amount of pushback but burdens the government with the cost of improvement. To be fair, parts of California (given that California is leading the anti-gas charge) are actively working on cleaning up transit. But it's slow going.
- jxramos 3y ago
  I've been interested in these backyard methane producers https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-4 https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-4. I see people make homebrewed ones out of IBC containers and stuff like that. One of these days I'll get my hands on one of these things. For as cheap as natural gas is it'll take forever to pay for itself if it ever would. But it's a cool idea for self sufficiency sort of things.