On 7/2/2010 1:50 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
> On Jul 2, 4:20 pm, > wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:57:06 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
>>
>> Pope) wrote:
>>> > wrote:
>>
>>>> If you can't feel the blast of lost heat from a gas stove, you must be
>>>> wearing a 3 piece suit. When I first got it, I was so surprised by
>>>> how hot it is standing in front of a gas stove that I looked it up.
>>>> Gas is only 50% efficient, while electric is 75% - big difference.
>>>> Too bad electricity is so expensive.
>>
>>> What type and vintage of gas stove are you using?
>>
>> Mine is vintage last year. http://i48.tinypic.com/el5f8z.jpg
>
> When did KitchenAid branch beyond mixers? I wonder who really built
> it.
>
> But -- is that a vintage St. Charles Kitchen? My grandmother had one
> in the 50s, with things like a bread drawer and rice and flour
> drawers.
>
>>
>>> Mine is an early-20'th-century Spark. I do not think too much
>>> wasted heat escapes, unless you are using too small a diameter pan.
>>
>> Maybe you're used to all that ambient heat.
>
> I only notice the heat from the stovetop when I'm making pasta. Gas
> ovens give off heat because they need combustion air.

My guess is that gas ovens give off a lot of heat because one of the
by-products of combustion is water vapor which caries with it a lot of
latent heat.