Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Gas stoves and indoor air quality

[Dahako (Dahako]

Hi -
 
I got an electric stove in my unit because I was concerned about indoor air  
quality, especially given the "tight" energy-efficient nature of our  units.  
The only other resident at Eastern Village who made the same  decision is an 
engineer for EPA who did all the blower-door testing of our  building. And the 
fire marshall was so concerned about a range of issues,  including air quality 
that he forced us to have an electric stove in the common  house.
 
By the way, you now know one really good cook who actually prefers an  
electric stove to gas for most day-to-day purposes.  I have worked as a  
sous-chef 
in a French restaurant, plus grew up in a household with more than  2000 
cookbooks and in which all children were given knives and made to do prep  from 
an 
early age.  I have worked on both gas and electric ranges and see  advantages 
and disadvantages to both. 
 
What I really want now is an induction stove.
 
-Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Silver Spring, Maryland
"Where my teenager participates on cooking teams as a cook and my  pre-teen 
is apprenticing, soon to join up on his  own."