Yeah gas is only “safe” with a full fume hood. Even then not as safe as they used to think, but most people don’t have real fume hoods in their home, or don’t even crack a window when they use the gas.
We should at least use propane if we have to cook indoors with hydrocarbons
Wonder where EU city gas would be on a good - bad scale. I have never heard about the dangerosity of gas stoves except the obvious (it’s like burning) here in France and we cook & heat water with it.
Yeah many people don’t “shut off” their stoves. There’s a pilot light constantly emitting a little bit of benzene. The apartment unit I lived in for years had gas stoves with pilot lights in all the units
Most gas stoves I’ve used have electric starters, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen one with a pilot light. I’m in the US for reference, not sure how it is elsewhere.
Yeah gas is only “safe” with a full fume hood. Even then not as safe as they used to think, but most people don’t have real fume hoods in their home, or don’t even crack a window when they use the gas.
We should at least use propane if we have to cook indoors with hydrocarbons
Wonder where EU city gas would be on a good - bad scale. I have never heard about the dangerosity of gas stoves except the obvious (it’s like burning) here in France and we cook & heat water with it.
They also leak small amounts of methane when not in use so the kids would have to be running 24/7.
It’s only safe if the full fume hood is running 24/7. Gas stoves emit a lot more pollution when off than what people initially thought
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02581
Yeah many people don’t “shut off” their stoves. There’s a pilot light constantly emitting a little bit of benzene. The apartment unit I lived in for years had gas stoves with pilot lights in all the units
Most gas stoves I’ve used have electric starters, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen one with a pilot light. I’m in the US for reference, not sure how it is elsewhere.
I had one when we lived in a house with propane. Anyway, the oven had a pilot flame but the burners had electric igniters.
The only pilot lights I’ve ever seen were on massive professional restaurant ranges with big 24/7 running fumehoods so…
Your average at home stove without a pilot light leaks around ~20% of the benzene as a burner on high.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707
I feel like you are trying to convince me but I already agreed with you when I got here
Is that you, Hank Hill?