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- becomeme
Decades of well-established research have linked nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, to respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which especially affect children and older adults. This harmful link is so well established that some states have begun banning gas appliances in new construction. And now a new study has shown in stark detail just how long and far this gas spreads and lingers in a home.
By sampling homes across the U.S., the researchers found that in many, levels of exposure to NO2 can soar above the World Health Organization’s one-hour exposure limit for multiple hours—even in the bedroom that is farthest from the kitchen.
"The concentrations of NO2 we measured from stoves led to dangerous levels down the hall in bedrooms … and they stayed elevated for hours at a time.
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Switched to induction several years ago. Can’t see going with non-induction range any time in my future.
Would love to change over to induction but the ranges are expensive.
Yeah I hope the prices keep coming down. I think there are rebates / tax credits if you are in US via inflation reduction act. I was lucky and snagged a GE one on clearance for around $1200 delivered. Original MSRP was something crazy pushing $3k. This was early 2021.
I also think they are more economical. They don’t waste heat as other types.
Yeah I believe they are the most efficient in terms of baking and stovetop cooking.
Did you have to toss all your cookware and buy compatible stuff? Or did most of your cookware already work? I suspect most of mine wouldn’t work on induction sadly. For now I’m very happy with sky electric smooth top stove.
About 90% of our existing cookware worked. Only thing you need to do to test is if a regular magnet sticks to the cookware then it will work on induction cooktop. If most of your current stuff is aluminum based then you’ll need to replace.
A magnet sticks to my aluminum pots, with super glue. Does that count? :)
This whole situation is just disappointing. I respect the science but I also love cooking with gas and we recently moved into a home that has propane stoves. I guess we will just try to mitigate it as best we can until stuff can be replaced.
Hood fan does a great job imo. I guess ours is huge though
For a lot of it, but sadly NO2 is heavy and sinks in the air so residential hoods don’t exhaust it well
A lot of those are just basic filters and still pump the air back into the house.
Especially the combo microwave units.
A relatively good way to check is if there is a void of unusable cabinet space above the middle of the hood, it could have an exhaust vent; if there are however vents above the hood, it is likely just a filtration type.
I lived briefly in an apartment with an older combo unit. The vent fan would pull in fumes from the stove and eject it out the front above the microwave. If you were a particularly tall person it would spit the exhaust directly into your face while you stood in front of the stove.
if you don’t have kids, that’s probably good. if you have children or anyone with compromised airways in the residence, strongly advise you to reconsider. Posted some links in another thread regarding this will paste them here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819315/
https://rmi.org/gas-stoves-health-climate-asthma-risk/
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Any way to up the N2O emmisions so I enjoy it?
So their referring to natural gas stoves but propane shows to be worse in their studies?
I’m assuming this would also cover other things like gas fireplaces. But how far does that go, I wonder.
We just got a new gas dryer. How much can that contribute NO2?
Or a gas furnace, or water heater?
A lot of gas appliances come with rebates due to using more natural resources. I’m guessing that’s about to change.
