One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas hobs and ovens ...

Gas hobs could become a thing of the past if recommendations from the Committee on Climate Change are implemented. What could this mean? Gas hobs and gas boilers use fossil fuels which produce ...

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Cooking with gas hobs or ovens releases benzene — a chemical that has been associated with a higher risk of leukaemia and other blood cell cancers. This is the warning of a study by researchers from ...

Jamie's been reviewing consumer products for nearly two decades, and is the Which? cooking expert. When not making terrible puns, he grills nearly 100 ovens, cookers, cooker hoods and hobs every year, ...

Gas cookers should be fitted with health warnings, according to a report that has found the appliances fill a kitchen with air pollution that breaks recommended safe levels. Researchers rigged ...

Jamie's been reviewing consumer products for nearly two decades, and is the Which? cooking expert. When not making terrible puns, he grills nearly 100 ovens, cookers, cooker hoods and hobs every year, ...

A nationwide safety alert has been issued over as many as 100,000 gas hobs that are at risk of exploding. The government's safety watchdog and 11 leading brands, including Belling, Cooke & Lewis, and ...

Sir, – Justin Egan (Letters, October 29th) omits important context and was misleading in comparing fossil gas and induction hobs. The comparison relied upon fuel emissions intensity only, and not how ...

Madam Lim Kim Choo used to either return home to a strong smell of gas, or rush into a smoke-filled kitchen from her room to salvage a burning pot of food on the stove. "I am getting older and more ...

16:23, Wed, Mar 11, 2026 Updated: 16:26, Wed, Mar 11, 2026 Households with gas hobs face charges of £98 a year for using their burners for an hour a day following the new Ofgem price cap being ...