My favorite method of frying an egg is in a wok with oil. It gets amazingly crispy, rather than floppy, which is how it usually turns out in a conventional nonstick pan.

But it pretty consistently sets off the Coway air purifier in my kitchen when I do it...so I would assume frying with oil to the point of smoking does adversely affect air quality.

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namibj 4 days ago | parent [-]

>smoking >bad air quality

.... That should be obvious though, right?

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AdmiralAsshat 4 days ago | parent [-]

Sure, although it's interesting to see how long those pollutants linger, based on how long it takes my air purifier to return to "normal" quality. The egg fry will make it angry for about five minutes, maybe. By contrast, every time I fry up some bacon, the indicator will stay in the red zone for 15-20 minutes.

	▲	onli 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		To me measuring the air quality was interesting and surprising. Because like you said, how long the pollution lingers is surprising. And to me it wasn't obvious how bad the values get when cooking. I was aware of the kitchen smell traversing into the apartment, but hadn't realized how bad the air quality gets because of that.