Get rid of the three major pollution "killers" in the kitchen.
Release time:
2018-05-24
Contemporary people are very concerned about the quality of life, but often the more they care, the more they will inadvertently ignore both important and small details. Just as not only dirty places will exist pollution, clean kitchen will also hide the "root of the evil" harmful to human health. In addition to bacteria and dirt, the kitchen has noise pollution, visual pollution, olfactory pollution of the three "killers", but these three major pollution is often easy to be ignored.
Contemporary people are very concerned about the quality of life, but often the more they care, the more they will inadvertently ignore both important and small details. Just as not only dirty places will exist pollution, clean kitchen will also hide the "root of the evil" harmful to human health. In addition to bacteria and dirt, the kitchen has noise pollution, visual pollution, olfactory pollution of the three "killers", but these three major pollution is often easy to be ignored.
Noise pollution, the "enemy" of health.
A variety of seasoning bottles, dishes, cooking utensils collision when the clanking sound, range hoods in operation when the whirring sound, cabinet doors closed when the crackling sound ...... kitchen these annoying sounds will add to your cooking when the agitation.
According to national standards, residential noise during the day can not exceed 50 decibels (general speaking voice of 40 to 60 decibels), indoor noise limit should be lower than the standard value of the region 10 decibels. It is understood that an unprofessionally designed kitchen is far noisier than this standard.
Medicine has confirmed that excessive noise pollution can lead to discomfort in the human ear, tinnitus and earache symptoms; damage to the cardiovascular; distraction, reduce work efficiency; cause nervous system dysfunction, in addition to the impact on vision.
Expert Advice:
In order to minimise noise pollution, should be designed to reasonable storage shelves, placed in a variety of bottles and cans; the installation of shock-absorbing door pads; according to national regulations, the noise of the range hood should be controlled at 65 to 68 decibels, so it should be the best of both worlds should be used suction and quiet products.
Visual pollution, mood killer.
Visual pollution mainly refers to harmful and wrong colour matching and light usage. As the colour temperature (light source colour temperature) will cause some changes in human physiology, different people have different colour preferences. Middle-aged and elderly cabinets should be selected neutral or light tone.
Medical experts believe that too strong colours will stimulate the human senses, leading to accelerated blood flow, the mood is easy to tension; and too quiet colours, will slow down the speed of blood flow, prolonged exposure is easy to make people sluggish. Therefore, these two shades are not very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people.
Kitchen decoration, in addition to considering the colour scheme, should also pay attention to the choice of lighting. Many people believe that there is a light in the kitchen, can lighting on the line. According to the designer, in fact, the consequences of this is the formation of a number of shadows in the kitchen, that is, backlit visual obstacle areas. This will affect the mood when cooking.
Expert Advice:
It is best to install some auxiliary light sources in the kitchen to co-ordinate the lighting. It is not suitable to use a large area of reflective materials in the decoration, so as not to cause dizziness and blurred vision.
Olfactory pollution. Invisible traps.
A number of gases in the kitchen can be hazardous to human health - not to mention the dangerous consequences of liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas leakage, but also the fumes and exhaust from frying, which can be quite harmful to the body.
Cooking process produced in the smoke, in addition to containing carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulate matter, there will be acrolein, cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other organic substances. Acrolein can cause sore throat, dry eyes, fatigue and other symptoms; excessive aromatic hydrocarbons can lead to cell mutation, inducing cancer.
Nowadays, fashionable kitchen decoration mostly adopts open design, but the process of making Chinese food will produce more fumes. Open kitchen, air flow range is larger, the range hood can not be very good convergence of emissions of fumes, which will cause the restaurant and living room fumes exhaust pollution.
Expert Advice:
The first way to reduce grease and smoke pollution is to strengthen the kitchen exhaust ventilation system, followed by trying to change some cooking methods, less frying and frying, more use of microwave ovens, rice cookers, reduce the generation of open flames in the kitchen. Open kitchen to alleviate the oil smoke pollution, can be attached between the cooker and range hood.
