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Not from the coils, from the food itself. You can kind of fix it by cooking in a very conservative way, but good luck safely cooking chicken without oil and a h
by Vecr 2y ago
Not from the coils, from the food itself. You can kind of fix it by cooking in a very conservative way, but good luck safely cooking chicken without oil and a high temperature (and the particles that generates).
- dyauspitr 2y agoYeah but particulates are a lesser worry either way. I would be way more concerned about the harmful byproducts of propane/lpg combustion. It gives off large amounts of benzene and toluene which I think is a much bigger concern.
- adrian_b 2y agoI cook chicken and turkey and any other kind of meat (after removing all bones) in a closed glass vessel, in a microwave oven, without adding anything to the raw meat (i.e. no oil), except salt and spices. This produces very tasty meat, which is very similar to roasted meat, except for no or minimal browning. This method produces no particulate pollution and it does not require any kind of ventilation in the kitchen.
- nullc 2y agoFWIW, cooking in my microwave spikes the particulate sensor-- and I'd be willing to bet it does in yours too. Though I agree this could be fixed with a particular filter on the microwave. Certainly there are ways of cooking that produce little to no particulate pollution, presumably sous vide or indeed microwaving with a microwave that has a particulate filter. But the conclusion there is that you should have ventilation or cooking techniques that don't need ventilation. Gas or not is incidental. And conveniently the low pollution modalities I can think of are already electric by default, except for boiling in a closed pot. (Which I happily agree is best done with induction, even if just for speed alone).
- oceanplexian 2y agoPardon my skepticism if “I microwave raw chicken and it’s delicious” isn’t the most convincing argument I’ve heard for why gas stoves should be banned.
- orf 2y agoIt’s also one of the the most American-sounding statements I’ve ever heard.
- adrian_b 2y agoI did not say that gas stoves should be banned, despite the fact that I no longer use my gas stove since I have discovered that using a microwave oven gives much better results, many years ago. I was replying to the poster who believed that there is no way to cook chicken without particulate emission, which is a false belief, as proven by my experience. For many, many years I had been using a microwave oven only for reheating the food that I had cooked using a gas stove and oven. Then I discovered that actually it is much better to cook with the microwave oven than with the traditional methods (even for things like baking bread), so I stopped using the gas stove and oven, even if I am still paying for gas, because I live in a condo where the gas is metered only for the entire building.
- jackyinger 2y agoI’m genuinely curious. Could you elaborate on your methods to help me try to replicate this? Do you not have problems with unevenly cooked meat?