A gas stove absolutely requires active hood ventilation or yes you are breathing a bunch of incompletely combusted petroleum by-products.
That said, cooking in general is awful for your indoor air quality and any stove needs ventilation.
Gas is treated with an additive that gives it a distinct smell. If you’ve never had a gas stove you may not be familiar with it, but this is done to make gas leaks detectable by smell. Gas leaks can lead to explosions if they accumulate a lot of gas in an unventilated space. However in most cases a slow leak can’t build up that much concentration of gas quickly enough to blow up the building. Not before someine notices.
The real reason gas leaks cause explosions is smokers. Their sense of smell is destroyed by the smoking so they don’t detect the gas smell when they wake up in the mornings. And then they light up that first cigarette and boom.
A gas stove absolutely requires active hood ventilation or yes you are breathing a bunch of incompletely combusted petroleum by-products.
That said, cooking in general is awful for your indoor air quality and any stove needs ventilation.
Gas is treated with an additive that gives it a distinct smell. If you’ve never had a gas stove you may not be familiar with it, but this is done to make gas leaks detectable by smell. Gas leaks can lead to explosions if they accumulate a lot of gas in an unventilated space. However in most cases a slow leak can’t build up that much concentration of gas quickly enough to blow up the building. Not before someine notices.
The real reason gas leaks cause explosions is smokers. Their sense of smell is destroyed by the smoking so they don’t detect the gas smell when they wake up in the mornings. And then they light up that first cigarette and boom.