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by keneda7 1141 days ago
I find this very shocking NY allows that. I'm in CA and I've never seen a gas stove that didn't have a fume hood. In fact a lot of electric stoves here have fume hoods. I would assume we have a regulation about it here but I've never looked it up.
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I've lived in several places in the US, and every residential range hood I've seen vents back into the living space.

I would believe it's different in CA, though. CA's public health regulations are famously stricter than elsewhere in the country.

That's odd, I mean my apartment has a "vent hood" but it just feeds into a sponge into a wall with no ventilation leading outside. These are the types of hoods I've only seen in my life, only in professional kitchens have I seen true ventilation and even then some kitchens are moving to induction sense it's a much safer work environment and speeds up cooking but even then you still need ventilation.
I went ahead and looked it up. It seems like it is required in CA. It also seems NY is similar but also allows ductless. I didn't read up on it that much though.

https://www.prolinerangehoods.com/blog/is-a-range-hood-requi....