<story><title>The case for induction cooking</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/dining/induction-cooking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don&amp;#x27;t have running.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>Citation needed please for the health effects being bogus. NOx emissions from gas stoves seem to be consistently reported as quite high indeed. For example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;methane-and-nox-emissions-natural-gas-stoves-cooktops-and-ovens-residential-homes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;methane-and-nox-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>Top reader comment seems apt w&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;t the pollution aspect anyway:&lt;p&gt;As a scientist (an immunologist) who leads a research lab on lung inflammation including asthma, the cavalier attitude Times columnists have toward scientific references in their articles is appalling.&lt;p&gt;RMI is a thinktank with an agenda. Not a research institution. And Brady Seals is not a scientist. Note the lack of PhD. She has an MBA and has never worked in science. Nor did she &amp;#x27;author a study&amp;#x27;. She authored a REPORT. Which is not peer-reviewed and not published in a reputable journal.&lt;p&gt;As an immunologist I assure you that scientific evidence does not indicate that &amp;#x27;increase of asthma is on par with living in a home with a smoker&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;And frankly- just walking outdoors in NYC you&amp;#x27;re exposed to far higher levels of lung-irritating pollutants than you are cooking stir fry on your stove. But that doesn&amp;#x27;t fit the agenda the Times is pushing with multiple induction stove articles lately all focused on bogus health effects and the (more legitimate) climate concerns.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>All the vents in places I&amp;#x27;ve rented have seemed hilariously ineffective even on the highest and super loud setting. Maybe good ones make a difference but how many people actually have good ones? And how many people actually use them every time the stove is on?</text></comment>
<story><title>The case for induction cooking</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/dining/induction-cooking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don&amp;#x27;t have running.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>Citation needed please for the health effects being bogus. NOx emissions from gas stoves seem to be consistently reported as quite high indeed. For example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;methane-and-nox-emissions-natural-gas-stoves-cooktops-and-ovens-residential-homes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;publication&amp;#x2F;methane-and-nox-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>Top reader comment seems apt w&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;t the pollution aspect anyway:&lt;p&gt;As a scientist (an immunologist) who leads a research lab on lung inflammation including asthma, the cavalier attitude Times columnists have toward scientific references in their articles is appalling.&lt;p&gt;RMI is a thinktank with an agenda. Not a research institution. And Brady Seals is not a scientist. Note the lack of PhD. She has an MBA and has never worked in science. Nor did she &amp;#x27;author a study&amp;#x27;. She authored a REPORT. Which is not peer-reviewed and not published in a reputable journal.&lt;p&gt;As an immunologist I assure you that scientific evidence does not indicate that &amp;#x27;increase of asthma is on par with living in a home with a smoker&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;And frankly- just walking outdoors in NYC you&amp;#x27;re exposed to far higher levels of lung-irritating pollutants than you are cooking stir fry on your stove. But that doesn&amp;#x27;t fit the agenda the Times is pushing with multiple induction stove articles lately all focused on bogus health effects and the (more legitimate) climate concerns.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&amp;gt; Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don&amp;#x27;t have running.&lt;p&gt;Almost nobody in New York City (where the NYT is based and focuses its coverage) has a vent hood that vents outside the apartment.&lt;p&gt;Older buildings don&amp;#x27;t have a hood at all, and new buildings have hoods which circulate air within the apartment, which doesn&amp;#x27;t really address concerns about accumulation of environmental pollutants.</text></comment>