A concept of a door is such that if you want to be closed off you can be and if you don't want to be you also have that choice. Having a door to the kitchen is strictly better than having no door. Personally I'd pick a glass sliding door too.

The air quality depends on exactly what you are cooking. Close the door if your cooking involves high heat, open it otherwise. And incidentally I don't understand why the author would do testing while frying an egg. Frying an egg does not involve high heat. High heat means getting close to or past the smoke point of your oil. I would not close the door when frying an egg.

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AlecSchueler 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> A concept of a door is such that....

If you feel the need to condescend to the point that you're explaining what a door is please ask yourself if you're underestimating the intelligence of the person you're speaking to.

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kccqzy 3 days ago | parent [-]

HN comments aren't reflective of a person's intelligence at all. I write so many comments with grammatical errors such that my high school English teacher would berate me for low intelligence.

> A concept of a door is such that

It's just for comedic effect, or "performative erudition" in the words of a New Yorker reporter. No need to read too much into it. You have better things to do in life than to be offended so easily.

	▲	AlecSchueler 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> You have better things to do in life than to be offended so easily. I laughed along with you until this... But don't now tell me what I do and don't have time for. Do you have time to be so patronising in your life? What an ass I've been on this site daily for more than a decade and a half and this is the first time I've ever felt it necessary to call someone an ass. I hope you have a bad night of sleep.

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groggler 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't cook with high heat but do cook with high smoke point oil seems like a better solution.

A lot of people seem to like to knock a lot of holes in their kitchen walls making doors and shutters complicated and rarely used.

The chef breathes in the kitchen.

Food cooked in high heat often has additional related risks.

	▲	xkcd-sucks 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes you have to make the Pan hot enough so all the food goes "Tssss!" immediately and loudly when it goes in, and doesn't boil in its own moisture. Doing this appropriately is one thing that separates okay cooks from terrible cooks