The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health – and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are.
The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health – and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are.
I am a gas girl… forced to use shitty coil electric stoves for too many years, I was stoked when I moved to a place with a gas stove. Its old as hell, but my workhorse.
I can smell the gas when I preheat the oven. The exhaust vent works, but I wish it worked better. Summa isn’t so bad, because I have windows open and fans going, but it’s only been in the last month or so, I’ve been reading all this stuff about gas stoves and the dangers for health. I cook everyday.
It definitely freaks me out. We can’t afford to replace a working appliance, or to switch off gas (we already have an indentured servitude relationship with the electric company). So, I’m thinking of getting a small air purifier to run on the counter by the stove before winter hits this year.
It does suck when you learn something you love is bad for your health.
You’re probably on that puny ~110-120 volt supply.
Electric isn’t bad when there’s enough of it.
I’m currently looking directly at a ~400 volt stove. (My sauna stove, not mainly for cooking, although grilling sausages in a sauna is not unheard of.) I think my cooking stove is on the same sort of high power supply though. And even the regular outlets are 240v.
Apologize for ruining the humor with pedantry but …
Assuming this is a dig at the US, major appliances like stoves use 240v circuits. I think there are a couple possible but my new stove circuit is 50a 240v, the same as my car charger.
Induction stoves are something where you can still make fun of us though. They are rare and most are expensive. I just converted from gas to induction and none of the three places I went to even had a display model so I Could see what an induction stove looked like
Well, yeah, because we’ve got twice that on stoves and 240 on regular outlets? So it’s still just half of what most of Europe is using. Which would very well explain the difference in experiences.
As side note on air purifiers. You have to get them for the size of the room to get proper results. Ie something thats too small for the space is about useless. They have rating, look for that.
You’re right, they do have a rating.
I have empty space right by the stove, figure I can run it when the ovens on. We have a large one in another part of the house already, too big for the counter.