The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.
Pollution from gas stoves accounts for more than half of some [US] Americans’ total exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a toxin linked to asthma, a study in the academic journal PNAS Nexus concludes. The findings, published this month, provide the first nationwide, community-level estimates of residential NO2 exposure.
it matters for cooking in a wok because of the shape, and you have more fine control over the heat when it’s a gas knob instead of an electric thing that cycles on and off.
in some places being able to cook when the electricity goes out is nice.