On Thu 14 May 2009 08:32:24p, Ed Pawlowski told us...

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
>> My oven doesn't warm the room. My cook top does though... so making a
>> pot of hot water helps warm the kitchen.
>
> So where does all the heat in the oven go? Unless you have a vent to
> the outside, it eventually ends up in the house. If the oven is well
> insulated, little heat will escape during the cooking process, but
> eventually, it is dissipated to the cooler environs. Law of Physics,
> can't be changed.

It may very well be vented out. In both homes where I had wall ovens they
were vented to the outside and very little heat entered the kitchen. One
was a gas oven, the other electric. I know the gas oven had an exhaust fan
in the vent, but I'm not sure about the electric.

Having a free-standing electric range now, of course it vents into the
room, coming from the base of the backsplash. However, the vent hood turns
on automatically when it senses a certain temperature coming from below,
whether it be from the cooktop or the oven. The kitchen stays relatively
cool.

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Wayne Boatwright
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