• Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
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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

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          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

          • Zorro_King_of_Englan@lemm.ee
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            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.

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              The only pilot lights I’ve ever seen were on massive professional restaurant ranges with big 24/7 running fumehoods so…

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              I had one when we lived in a house with propane. Anyway, the oven had a pilot flame but the burners had electric igniters.

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        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.

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        They also leak small amounts of methane when not in use so the kids would have to be running 24/7.