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I've used a consumer grade air quality meter and never found use of my natural gas stove to be an issue, even if doing a lot of cooking, but my oven does impact
by Mountain_Skies 3y ago
I've used a consumer grade air quality meter and never found use of my natural gas stove to be an issue, even if doing a lot of cooking, but my oven does impact air quality quite a bit after a couple of hours. No idea if running the hood fan would impact the emissions from the oven. Since it's a rental, I haven't gone searching for a cause. In general, the only time I need the oven for an extended period of time is when cooking a turkey. For most other things, the oven is inferior to various countertop devices.
- peteradio 3y agoI believe you should run the fan for all uses, you are in all cases combusting indoors whenever you are using the gas stove/oven, unless you are glancing at the time.
- Clamchop 3y agoI haven't had a real range vent in my last three apartments. The hood just vents into the room. Two of those were both gas and new construction. So I'm guessing for a lot of people it doesn't matter very much!
- TheCleric 3y agoI don’t know about the ones you’ve had, but I’ve installed a few not “real” range vents in my house over the years, and they vented into the wall, not the room itself.
- Clamchop 3y agoI promise these didn't. No vent connected to one that was supposed to have it, easy to see in the cabinet above it. The other two were microwaves that eject the air straight out the front. They're designed to do that. So, it's a thing.