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I wouldn't recommend using a gas stove if you don't have a good way to ventilate. My backup cooking in case of some long term power failure is a two burner pro
by vel0city 3y ago
I wouldn't recommend using a gas stove if you don't have a good way to ventilate.
My backup cooking in case of some long term power failure is a two burner propane camping stove along with a few camp-sized cylinders of propane. That plus I usually have a small pile of firewood and at least 20lbs of charcoal for the grill. If the power goes out for any lengthy period of time I'll be cooking outside.
As for making your current stove better, ensure you actually have a decently strong vent hood that will actually ventilate outside. You'll need to size the blower enough to actually force air out of the house which will vary based on how far the air needs to travel. If your fan is too weak it won't be able to adequately push the air outside at any useful rate.
- ImAnAmateur 3y agoBy fan I meant house fan. I was always told the vent hood was for heat. I've never seen it be useful for smoke.
- vel0city 3y agoA well-sized range hood vent fan is going to be your first line of defense though. Its already generally traveling up from the convection on the stove, so ensuring you've got good ventilation there should be the primary ventilation strategy. Plus you're then trying to exhaust the air with the highest percentage of contaminates instead of letting it spread out throughout your house and then ventilate it. Loads of vent fans are pretty terrible. They're often undersized for their needs or they don't even blow outside. I see a lot of units with only a couple hundred CFM. I have a Vent-a-Hood B200 system that gives 900CFM with both blowers on. It'll clear whatever smoke or particles are coming off my stove. I don't even have a gas grill but its clear how effective it is. Its crazy how much grease it manages to catch, grease that would have otherwise gone all throughout our house and in our lungs.