Kitchen gas stoves unsafe?

Wondering why the emphasis is placed on proper water tank venting to prevent carbon monoxide from entering the home. Yet at the same time, gas stoves with constantly burning pilot light, 4 burners plus oven have no venting to the outside what so ever. Anytime something is burned, water vapor and carbon monoxide is generated.

2021-01-20T01:32:16Z

All very interesting answers. True, we don't cook while sleeping. We also don't use hot water while sleeping. Yet the hot water tank is vented to the chimney to vent combustion products while the gas cook stove is not. Strange paradox. I've noticed that in large commercial restaurants, they have an oversized range hood over the stoves that vents to the roof. And finally, our gas log burner is vented up the chimney.

2021-02-08T23:50:59Z

Bottom line: My neighbor has COPD and when I go into their house, I can smell the fumes from their gas stove. I advised them to get electric but it fell on deaf ears. Imagine that, a guy using oxygen with open flames from a cook stove.

y2021-01-17T20:53:01Z

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The amount that they burn supposedly is not enough to mess one up, but. Many states like mine have put into code, gas oven in new or retrofit, need an exhaust fan also. Back in the 50's one of the selling points for gas stoves was supplemental or emergency heat. That went away as people did get nailed by them. The the talking point of they do not burn enough to make an impact in the scheme of things cam into play. Only in tighter modern construction, they do.Which has lead to codes like my state put in, the required ventilation fan.

Omar2021-01-21T12:30:51Z

Gas stoves rarely put out any measurable carbon monoxide and they're only using a small fraction of the gas burned in a water heater, which also does not NORMALLY put out much CO. An improperly operating gas heater can generate 5000 ppm of CO, which is why it has to be properly vented outside.

hart2021-01-20T03:59:03Z

the pilot light is a safety precaution "Do Not Touch"

Anonymous2021-01-18T04:00:08Z

CO is a product of incomplete combustion. It isn't necessarily generated by an open flame.

Regardless of which, you don't cook when asleep, so wouldn't succumb to hypoxia without noticing

STEVEN F2021-01-17T20:44:35Z

Anytime something is burned, water vapor and carbon monoxide is generated.
FALSE. CO is a byproduct of INCOMPLETE combustion. Complete combustion generates carbon DIOXIDE, not CO.

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