[emrvb]

Yes I measure.

Since I couldn't find an affordable consumer device, I build one myself. Levels in my living room never really exceed acceptable levels. My house is not airtight and constantly mechanically ventilated.

They have to pry my gas stove from my cold, dead hands. I refuse to accept indoor air quality deteriorates that much when using a proper hood (that means turning it on before igniting your stove).

[dotancohen]

  > I refuse to accept indoor air quality deteriorates that much when using a proper hood

You might want to measure this. I actually think that you are correct, but what we think is often wrong.

[emrvb]

I believe to remember I glanced over some of the articles mentioned and I seem to recall they were about poorly ventilated situations without proper hoods.

That doesn't say much about air quality WITH hoods in general, let alone my situation in particular. Incidentally I was already planning to build a little sensor array, specifically for the kitchen, that would would measure some of the nasty stuff.

But even if I would measure that stove is slowly killing me, I wont give it up. Just like I won't give up my coal fired barbecue.

[dotancohen]

Some pleasures are certainly worth the risk!

[michaelbuckbee]

With respect to a gas stove I've felt very similarly (and still have one), but after seeing a few induction cooktops and how nice they are I'll be looking at one for our next house.

[neutronicus]

Yeah, I used to prefer gas until we bought an all-electric house. The heating rate on the induction range that came with the house is bananas.

The burners go from 1-10 by halves and on 10 the big burner will boil a big-ass stockpot of water in what feels like a minute or two, and that's all I can use it for. 10 is literally too hot to sear meat, it will char it (and set off the smoke detector, apropos of the thread - it's a townhouse so of course the kitchen is right at the fucking center of mass of the house so the other rooms can have better light). It's also super-responsive and lets me get great heat control, if I go from 5.5 to 4 I can see what's happening in the pan change almost instantly. I never had a really fancy gas stove, but the ones I had were certainly not this responsive (although they sure beat the many crappy electric stoves I had).

It adjusts with buttons instead of a knob, which I kind of hate (a lot harder to work while cooking) but obviously that's not a comment on the heating technology.

[emrvb]

The induction stoves I've had the "pleasure" of working with were all very efficient to get water boiling. For every other cooking technique they were terrible. Perhaps I had bad luck with the models I encountered. Maybe it was caused by the pans or maybe it is just getting used to it. But the fact they're almost exclusively controlled by buttons is absolutely a deal breaker for me. I can't handle the stress of 4 pans and pots with buttons not responding because of a smudge somewhere or just because f*k me. Not to mention the models that have 2 sets of controls for 4 burners, where you have to select the appropriate burner first. Those abominations have to be designed by someone who only boils eggs or cooks ramen or hates cooking in general.

/rant