Not OP, but it made me curious too, and this is the study I found that sounded like what was mentioned.
From my quick skim of it, it didn’t look at gas vs electric specifically, and I don’t know if biomass fuel use was included in this study or not. Their results seemed to indicate more cooking daily in general, lots of frying, and not using a fume hood all had notable increases in cancer risk per their data collected.
The frying is important because that means they’re also eating that food, and fried food has links to cancer. Frying also releases a lot of VOCs, regardless of heat source.
Yeah, the VOCs seemed to be the main focus. The introduction talked about how most cooking studies have been on people still using biomass fuel in low income regions, and they wanted to look if higher income areas using more modern methods of cooking still suffered the same increased lung cancer risks.
Not OP, but it made me curious too, and this is the study I found that sounded like what was mentioned.
From my quick skim of it, it didn’t look at gas vs electric specifically, and I don’t know if biomass fuel use was included in this study or not. Their results seemed to indicate more cooking daily in general, lots of frying, and not using a fume hood all had notable increases in cancer risk per their data collected.
The frying is important because that means they’re also eating that food, and fried food has links to cancer. Frying also releases a lot of VOCs, regardless of heat source.
Yeah, the VOCs seemed to be the main focus. The introduction talked about how most cooking studies have been on people still using biomass fuel in low income regions, and they wanted to look if higher income areas using more modern methods of cooking still suffered the same increased lung cancer risks.