[HN Gopher] Cooking Air Quality
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       Cooking Air Quality
        
       Author : miohtama
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-07-21 22:41 UTC (18 minutes ago)
        
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       | Havoc wrote:
       | Yeah I've got an air filter that measures and adapts dynamically.
       | Ramps up noticeably during cooking things.
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       | Esp dry heat frying like steak in pan
        
         | dextersgenius wrote:
         | I have an air filter that ramps up when I'm _eating_. I bring
         | cooked /heated food into my room and a minute or so later my
         | air filter detects VOCs and ramps up. Sometimes it even goes
         | all the way up to the highest level (level 9) with scary red
         | colors, and that frightens me - is what I'm breathing while
         | eating really harmful, and if it is, then how about whilst
         | cooking? And what about chefs and all others who work in a
         | restaurant, how fucked up would their lungs be?
        
       | LouisvilleGeek wrote:
       | I am in a similar situation and use a Air Hood to help with this
       | problem https://theairhood.com/
        
       | gcheong wrote:
       | Our living room air purifier used to ramp up whenever we cooked
       | smokey things but ever since we remodeled the kitchen ,which
       | included a range hood, it hasn't done that.
        
       | dynm wrote:
       | If you live somewhere with relatively clean outdoor air, it's
       | quite possible that your own cooking gives you more particulate
       | exposure than ambient air pollution does.
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       | Just do the math: The average PM2.5 in New York is 12 mg/m3. As
       | this post shows, cooking can easily spike levels above above 500
       | mg/m3. So if you're exposed to smoky at 12/500=2.4% of the time,
       | that alone equals your ambient air pollution. That's around 35
       | minutes per day.
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       | If you have an air purifier, this is even more likely to be true
       | true--it's much easier for an air purifier to deal with a slow
       | steady leak of particles from outdoors than to deal with spikes.
        
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