Okay? What kind of range hoods were tested?<p>Let's sous-vide a steak for 2 hours, and then throw it in a hot pan with oil, without drying off the steak. You'll get a lot of smoke, which will probably set of any kind of ionizing smoke detector.<p>Whether you're cooking on gas or electric at that moment really doesn't matter.<p>What matters is that you have a _PROPER_ range hood. One that vents outside and one that isn't integrated into a microwave oven.<p>Previous comment about range hoods: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161811#40163023">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161811#40163023</a>
I've never had a choice until very recently when we redid the kitchen in our first owned house. Went with induction. It's really great, best of both worlds. We got one with proper knobs rather than the stupid touch controls many hobs have.
One of the reasons why I put a serious fume extractor over my gas stove - with remote engine and rooftop exhaust.<p>15 years old setup - made most sense at the time but, if I upgrade some day, it'll be for induction.
I’m just amazed that this needs a study at all.<p>Electric means the fire part happens at a coal station, gas means it is in your home. And people are surprised there is more crap on the air of their home? Hardly rocket science is it?
Actual paper can be found here: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8680" rel="nofollow">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8680</a>
We never realized how high the carbon dioxide got even during the normal day, but especially when cooking. Definitely recommend getting a monitor if you seem to wake up with inexorable headaches
Reminder: the supposed greatness of induction stoves will be irrelevant to most people who would be forced to replace their gas stoves by some hypothetical ban; induction stoves are substantially more expensive than traditional electric stoves and if people are made to prematurely replace an appliance most people will be going with the most economical option. The ban would be forcing people to use inferior stoves.<p>And do you know what's cheaper than both? Fume extraction. <i>If</i> the kitchen fume threat warrants legislation, that legislation should specify air quality standards and not stove technology. If those air quality standards can be met by gas stoves with fume extraction, that should be permitted.
It's neat to see the whole-party effort behind these things. The climate people and the government want to ban gas stoves, journalists write stories saying that this is misinformation and that the government has no such plans, universities dig up some data showing that gas stoves are unhealthy or whatever. It's cool to see how coordinated these things are - especially because I have no doubt that most of these people are acting independently. It's like, you don't even need to give orders. There's just a sort of mood in the air that people coordinate themselves around. We're like a bird flock, the way they kind of vote which direction they're going to fly in next.