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.

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    23 hours ago

    I hate my induction stove so much. Gas was way easier to handle.

    Heat transfer is uneven, move the pan to balance it, stove shuts off.

    Something boils over, if I wipe it away the stove shuts off.

    Very different heating characteristics for each piece of cookware.