"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:19:29 -0700, sf > wrote:
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>>On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:26:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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>>> I was in the mood for meatloaf tonight, but at 95 degrees outside I did
>>> not want to use the oven. Cooked it on the grill.
>>
>>Interesting that you said you didn't want to use the oven. From what
>>I've been told, modern gas ovens don't heat up the room like the gas
>>ovens of old did. Just an FYI: my "older than dirt" electric oven has
>>never heated up the room.
>
> This is a gas convection oven and it does add heat to the room. The
> grill worked and added no additional load to the AC. It was already
> 95 degrees but comfortable inside.

My electric oven is about 12 years old and it does heat up the entire house.
Sometimes when the weather is just starting to turn cold, I'll use it to
make something just so I don't have to turn the heat on.