Do Gas Cookers Pose Any Real Risks To Indoor Air Pollution?

[Raidergal2022]

There is some recent news/research that suggests that gas jobs/cookers cause homes to have indoor pollution levels 5 times worse that outdoor air etc. It states the increased risk of asthma in children and cancer etc.

I know gas cooking has been around for ages, it made me realise I brought up in and have always lived in a home with a gas cooker and no ventilation/ extractor fan. Apparantly extractor fans now have to be installed in new kitchens

Do you think there are any real risks?
I suppose if people witch to electric ovens there will be the risk of EMF/electric radiation lol

[Buenchico]

A relevant news link (from just a few hours ago):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65722603

I always try to ventilate my kitchen, by opening a window (even in the middle of winter), after I've been using my gas cooker for a while.

[Raidergal2022]

I know that link is what got me worried about having a lifetime of exposure to a gas cooker. ‘Reduced life expectancy’.. really?

[barry1010]

I've used electric cooking for years but grew up with gas cookers. My grandmother used gas for cooking all her life and died just short of her 100th birthday - she also heated the house solely from open coal fires.

Her house, like the house I grew up in, was single glazed, very draughty and certainly not insulated like homes are today. It was, I suppose, naturally well ventilated all year round. I suspect that gas appliances are more of a hazard in modern homes.

[Old_Geezer]

Just think what age your granny would have made had she chosen more wisely her heating & cooking methods.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps we will be encouraged to buy heat pumps for heat and cooking now.

[barry1010]

Not for me, thanks, OG, someone I know has heat pumps and the noise is dreadful.

[10ClarionSt]

As stated in the OP, we've been using gas appliances for over a hundred years. I put an extractor fan in my kitchen. What a job that was, drilling through breeze block then 2 courses of brick. That was 15 years ago. A nightmare to do but I'm glad I've done it. Anyway, maybe after using gas for more than 120 years, it could be that we haven't gotten used to it yet! :o)

[Zacs-Master]

It’s a rumour spread by the electric cooker makers society.

[Old_Geezer]

Well barry, I understand those in charge of investigating noise pollution are questioning the big push to get us to adopt them. I'm unsure if it is just air heat pumps or whether the below ground one are equally noisy.

[Ryzen]

OG..air and ground source heat pumps are both above ground..its only the inputs that differ :-)

[MrsCheese]

No, it’s just a way of getting people to give up gas appliances. Sadly most of the sheep will comply

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe Ryzen. But doesn't one have air rushing about and the other is surely some kind of liquid just whooshing ? Not that I've any experience of these things.