If you've been reading the news http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/indoor-air-pollution-kills-a-million-people-every-year-in-india/story-c5PMwIjBiTLeqSnkxIoysJ.html, you would know that indoor air pollution is a big killer in India. You would assume that most of these 15+ lakh annual victims of indoor air pollution would be rural women who cook on traditional wood or dung-cake stoves.
Well, think again. If you cook parathas at home on a modern gas stove, with a state of the art chimney exhausting air, you can still achieve PM2.5 levels in excess of 600, and PM10 levels in excess of 1100. Those figures are seriously off the charts - more than 10 times the maximum permissible limits, even by Indian standards.
So what can you do? Well, keep exhausting till long after you're done cooking. This will throw your particulate matter outside, and pull the hazardous Delhi air in. Or you could run your air purifiers at full blast, and choke them to death in a single day.
Anyway, if you live outside polluted cities, do exhaust for a long time after shallow or deep frying. The fried food you eat can kill you in more than one way.
Well, think again. If you cook parathas at home on a modern gas stove, with a state of the art chimney exhausting air, you can still achieve PM2.5 levels in excess of 600, and PM10 levels in excess of 1100. Those figures are seriously off the charts - more than 10 times the maximum permissible limits, even by Indian standards.
So what can you do? Well, keep exhausting till long after you're done cooking. This will throw your particulate matter outside, and pull the hazardous Delhi air in. Or you could run your air purifiers at full blast, and choke them to death in a single day.
Anyway, if you live outside polluted cities, do exhaust for a long time after shallow or deep frying. The fried food you eat can kill you in more than one way.