I wonder how effective the extractor is above the stove, if you always put it on its max fan setting when cooking, would it improve the VOC and other gases detected?
Which air quality monitor did you get?
Which air quality monitor did you get?
The answer is likely "Yes, it improves things a little bit, but it's still a terrible idea to keep a device spitting dangerous emissions inside your home".
I completely agree, but some people will grab their burning pitchforks and will try to convince you that they can't cook as well on an electric stove.
I use both of them, and gas considerably lowers the air quality (I can feel it), and prefer electric very much, however it has a learning curve, and people don't want to change.
Also, AFAIK, you can't use a wok as it's meant to be used on an electric stove.
As for woks, that hasn't stopped China from being the largest market for induction cooktops, and they even make custom-shaped induction cooktops designed for woks.
I keep a small portable stove adapter which is pretty powerful. It screws to small LPG containers which I can buy anywhere, and provides ample power in a small footprint.
I have a full canister and this adapter [0], and if I ever need to heat something w/o electricity, I just take this out from my storage room.
We are using this setup at a couple locations, one of them is pretty remote, and proved to be very reliable for us during the last decade or so. All locations have electric stoves otherwise.
[0]: https://productimages.hepsiburada.net/s/48/375/1093835551544...
Realistically a western home gas stove isn’t that great for wok cooking either because most don’t get hot enough compared to commercial stoves anyways.
[1] https://www.bora.com/be/de/kochfeldabzugssysteme/bora-s-pure...
Hot stuff from your stove will naturally rise, so capturing it above the stove is much better.
Also, pressure cookers have a vent on the top and blow the steam up.
Also what happens to spillages? Edit: they do say this - "If anything is spilt during cooking, the integrated tray safely catches both solids and liquids." - yeah that's gonna go well.
Like another commenter says, this is total garbage.
I don't really know how it's code but it might be because there's often a window in the room that can be used instead?
I think that's how some bathrooms got away with not having a vent too.
A rare situation of course, but it has happened to me a handful of times over the years (and also the opposite - ventilator in kitchen running at max, kitchen window closed, living room wood stove going, the vent sucks smoke from the living room wood stove and the smoke detector goes off).
As to the other comment - my ventilator doesn't have a carbon filter and I have little experience with those. I recon it will remedy some of the problems with re-venting back into the room compared with the alternative (using nothing). And I've seen vents in Japan with carbon filters, or at least something similar - but they vent outside, not inside. I wonder though about all the other kind of fumes from cooking, the metal-grid "filter" in my vent gets quite greasy and needs to be washed and cleaned now and then.
"You can have carbon filters, why the ugly pipe?" they have said. I prevailed and have a venting one now.
It is indeed almost pointless. If there’s a filter it does at least help a little but many people wouldn’t even know to think about maintaining a filter.