Avoid polluted air when cooking
By cooking with electricity and ventilating well while preparing a meal, you ensure fewer harmful substances in the indoor air.
You tackle the following challenges:
That's how you do it
Cooking and baking produces a lot of fine dust and moisture. If you cook on gas, harmful combustion gases such as nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) are also released.
Tips
- Replace your gas cooker with an induction cooker.
- Choose a good extractor hood with exhaust to the outside, and no recirculation extractor hood. After all, recirculation hoods can only capture particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide to a limited extent. Also make sure that the extractor hood completely covers the hob.
- Set your extractor hood to the highest setting for cooking and baking, and switch on your extractor hood a few minutes before cooking. Also clean your extractor hood regularly.
- Ensure sufficient ventilation in the kitchen while cooking: open a window or door, or set your ventilation system to the highest setting.
- Put a lid on pots and pans. This means that fewer cooking vapors and fine dust particles are released during baking. Place your pots and pans at the back of the hob as much as possible.
- Inform kitchen staff about healthy cooking.
More information
- What you need to know about particulate matter that is released during cooking (TNO, the Netherlands)
- More fine dust behind the stove than along the highway (NOS, the Netherlands)
- Healthy cooking: 7 smart tips (Longfonds, Netherlands)
