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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
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.
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
I had one when we lived in a house with propane. Anyway, the oven had a pilot flame but the burners had electric igniters.
Is that you, Hank Hill?
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.