Now You're Cooking With Cancer!

Okay, what’s going to give you cancer today? Let’s go with cooking!

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has also classified cooking fumes as “probably carcinogenic”. Now researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have compared gas and electric cooking methods, and found that gas produces higher levels of the cancer-causing fumes.

The authors, whose study is published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, point out that the levels of the chemicals and particulates found in their study were below accepted occupational safety thresholds. But they add that cooking fumes contain other harmful components for which there is no safety threshold, as yet, and which appear to be higher with gas cooking. “Exposure to cooking fumes should be reduced as much as possible,” they say.

What kind of cancers might cooking with gas give you? Lung, bladder, and cervix, says Science! Your risk of such is likely to rise if you smoke while you cook, which, let’s face it, is the only way to really get creative over the stove. Anyway, all you raw food faddists out there get to be extra-smug today, if you can muster up the energy, which you probably can’t. The rest of you? You’re all gonna die.