Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer

• sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nope, not personally. I mean, I have had hoods that just vent into the kitchen, but never on a gas stove; only on cheap electric ones.

  I believe they exist, but IME gas stove installation code says it has to vent outside, because of the gas fumes. With electric stoves, installers can get away with just venting into the kitchen, so if something burns you get your smoke alarm.

  I roast coffee beans, and I do it by placing a cookie tray on my stove, and put the roaster on that. It is a major PITA, but if I do a dark roast it produces smoke - like real, dark, something’s-burning smoke - and if I don’t have it under the vent it sets the smoke detectors off every time. But under the vent, it just sucks it all out and jets it outside.

  This is the first house I’ve owned that has a gas stove, but my in-law’s place has a big Viking in it with, like, 10 burners; it’s a monster, and the hood on that looks like it came from a restaurant. Their’s vents outside, too.

  I have no doubt there are places in the US where gas is cheap and even trailer homes have gas stoves and no outside venting, and maybe older homes. I dunno. But every gas stove I’ve personally seen in the US in the past decade has vented outside.

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  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think there are some municipalities with that in code, but it’s definitely not universal in the US.

    codes.iccsafe.org/…/chapter-5-chimneys-and-vents

    I live in a house with a gas stove that vents into my kitchen.

    I definitely hear you about the coffee roasting. I assumed when they said that it smokes that it would just be like thin wisps, and I definitely smoked out my house. I’m not going to do it inside again.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, our last house had an electric stove and vented into the kitchen. I had to roast out on the deck :-(

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i mean ours was built to look that way, but when you open those cabinets above the microwave there’s ducting in there for the vent to get to the roof.

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