About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Stanford researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke.

Is this one of those things we will look back at from the future and say: “I can’t believe that we did that?” like leaded fuel?

  • TroyOPMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    My grandparents died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a propane stove (they were using it in their porch as a canning stove, to make pickles – carbon monoxide flooded the house). I’ve assuming you, at a minimum, have a carbon monoxide detector? Everything else coming from the stove kills you slowly.

    • Bo7aEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Thanks. Sorry to hear about your grandparents. That is terrible.

      Ours is a proper stove installed by a gasfitter, not a little countertop camp stove. And we do have multiple CO meters around the house. The camping water heater is a bigger problem. But I am replacing that this weekend.

      • TroyOPMEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It was more than two decades ago now. I try to see some black humour in it now. How many people do you know who’ve died in a “tragic pickling accident”?

        Glad that you’re taking precautions. Learning from other people’s mistakes is a lot safer than learning from your own.