“You’re cooking with gas” is a familiar term associated with doing the right thing and doing it well. But is cooking with gas doing the wrong thing for our health?
Increasing evidence suggests cooking with gas may make asthma worse in children. However, proper use of range hoods could reduce that risk.
What’s in gas?
Gas is excellent for cooking — it switches on in an instant and is easily adjustable.
But burning gas produces a variety of byproducts, some relatively benign and some not so benign for human health. And that’s without even considering the wider health effects of climate change, to which burning fossil fuels such as gas is the major contributor.