sf > wrote:

>It certainly will! Gas cooking is good on cold days when you *want*
>to heat up the kitchen.

FYI, I have never had a problem with gas stovetop usage heating up
a kitchen.

If one heats a pot on a stove, sooner or later all of those BTUs
end up heating the kitchen, regardless of stove type. The main
exception being if you remove the heated-up pot from the room entirely.
(Putting it in a refrigerator in the same room does not buy you
anything, because this causes the refrigerator's coils to emit
that much more heat.)

The gas oven does heat up the kitchen. I do not know if this
is a stronger effect than with an electric oven, but I doubt it.
I might avoid doing a three-hour oven-braising recipe on a hot
day, but I have done it without it being a real problem.

Steve