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The induction stoves I've had the "pleasure" of working with were all very efficient to get water boiling. For every other cooking technique they were terrible. Perhaps I had bad luck with the models I encountered. Maybe it was caused by the pans or maybe it is just getting used to it. But the fact they're almost exclusively controlled by buttons is absolutely a deal breaker for me. I can't handle the stress of 4 pans and pots with buttons not responding because of a smudge somewhere or just because f*k me. Not to mention the models that have 2 sets of controls for 4 burners, where you have to select the appropriate burner first. Those abominations have to be designed by someone who only boils eggs or cooks ramen or hates cooking in general.

/rant

I've had similar issues, but since I also experienced it near electric stoves it wouldn't be caused by the burning of gas.

I've hypothesized it is caused by overheating cooking oil.

Before induction cooking, gas stoves generally used to be able to provide more heat than electric ones. So its easier to cook hotter and burn more oil with those stoves.

Might be something else entirely in your case.

I believe to remember I glanced over some of the articles mentioned and I seem to recall they were about poorly ventilated situations without proper hoods.

That doesn't say much about air quality WITH hoods in general, let alone my situation in particular. Incidentally I was already planning to build a little sensor array, specifically for the kitchen, that would would measure some of the nasty stuff.

But even if I would measure that stove is slowly killing me, I wont give it up. Just like I won't give up my coal fired barbecue.

Yes I measure.

Since I couldn't find an affordable consumer device, I build one myself. Levels in my living room never really exceed acceptable levels. My house is not airtight and constantly mechanically ventilated.

They have to pry my gas stove from my cold, dead hands. I refuse to accept indoor air quality deteriorates that much when using a proper hood (that means turning it on before igniting your stove).

In my opinion Bose performs only slightly better than the cheapest crap and only has a moderately better build quality, yet at a (near) premium price range. I think their products are barely worth half the money they ask for it.

But this is my opinion on Bose in general and not this specific product range. Personally I cant stand Bluetooth audio for anything else but background noise. I'm still amazed how a 192kbs mp3 can sound better with 5 euro earplugs compared to a 200+ euro Bluetooth headset with aptX support.

Eventually it doesn't matter at all, if you are happy with their product(s) and consider it money well spend, then who am I to judge.

Edit:

amiga-workbench 51 minutes ago

The most grating "feature" of Bluetooth is having headphones that support fancy AAC/AptX codecs, but as soon as you want to make use of its microphone it dumps the connection right back to A2DP.

I'm no longer amazed.

Not only that, but the analysis seems to be based on rather small sample studies, all based in Iran, the worlds largest saffron exporting country.

At least they state this caveat themselves "Larger clinical trials, conducted by research teams outside of Iran, with long-term follow-ups are needed before firm conclusions can be made regarding saffron's efficacy and safety for treating depressive symptoms."

This is not news worthy at all.