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The studies I read, there was no ventilation / exhaust fan. The point was that low income households using these stoves often don’t have proper ventilation and it makes them dangerous. I didn’t find much evidence that using them with proper ventilation is actually a serious problem.

Further, cooking releases all sorts of chemicals from incomplete combustion in the air if something is burning, as well as the toxic chemicals release from nonstick cookware at very high temperatures, so cooking without ventilation is bad for your health would be the message I’d take away. I find most people are completely unaware of the hazard.

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Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
With proper ventilation you can do everything, you can work with hazardous gases and nuclear materials, if the ventilation is sufficient.

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- null@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Radiation ventilation is fun to say
  
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- Krelis_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Nuclear particles perhaps but nuclear radiation is not affected by airflow
  
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  - Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    But if the flow is good enough, all the material will be sucked away before it has time to emit.
    
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    Krelis_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Considering how dense radioactive materials typically are (i.e. not likely to disperse in the air as a powder under typical working conditions) you’re talking about some hyperbolic extraction fan there
    
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IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Very few residences have proper ventilation. In the US, a microwave above the stove is common. Microwave often do have a fan function, but the vast majority don’t vent outdoors. I doubt that running air through a very thin filter will do much good.

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- SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I hate this. I think it should be illegal. Or make a building code that there has to be a real extractor hood above the stove in all cases.
  
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CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Even charcoal grills inside are fine with proper ventilation. So you’re right, but your also not saying very much.

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- GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah I’m not sure what the purpose of the comment was. To convince people to continue using gas on the off chance it won’t increase cancer risk? That’s not a compelling reason to use gas. It might not kill me.
  
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  - roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m pretty sure the comment was to emphasize the importance of a proper working stove hood.
    
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  - desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    it also emphasizes the importance of knowing how the items built into your house work.
    
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MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m not even sure I would call it “low income households”, more like “older building/houses”. Plenty of expensive apartment units are in old buildings (I’m looking at you NYC) without proper ventilation.

I own a unit in a co-op in a building that is over 100 years old. I have a gas stove. There is a vent on my above-range microwave but it’s just a filter that blows it back into the room. I do a lot of cooking. I’m in danger.

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- 7rokhym@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Indeed. Charcoal filters are to catch some odours, the aluminum will catch some grease, but ‘natural gas’ is a whole lot more than methane, and think the same is true for propane.
  
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Krelis_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Gas stoves without extraction are also a lot more likely to use a liquefied gas fuel (i.e. bottled butane/propane) rather than a plumbed in utility gas mains (typically methane) which makes a big difference in particulate emissions during combustion

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balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks for the clarification.

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