On 2017-02-24 2:47 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:07:58 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2017-02-24 9:50 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 1:19:50 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski
>>
>>>>> If anybody ever thought about it, they'd realize that a God
>>>>> awful amount of fuel is being wasted heating up the cook and the
>>>>> kitchen.
>>>>
>>>> You are right in July and August, dead wrong in January and
>>>> February.
>>>
>>> Can you be more specific or is this a guessing game?
>>
>> No guessing game. Ed lives in a climate similar to that of many North
>> Americans and Europeans. We pay to heat our houses. The heat that
>> radiated from ovens and stoves helps to heat the rest of the house. It
>> is not being wasted. Around here, that would apply just about any time
>>from October through to April.
>
> Oh, come on. If you want to heat your house, you don't turn to your
> overn or stove. Dsi1 is right that heating up the cook and the kitchen
> is a waste. Same with a light bulb. it would be best if all its energy
> went into creating light, not heat. Even in winter.


Actually, I have turned on my oven and/or stove to heat up the house on
occasion, like the time we went out for a while on the coldest day of
the year and came home to find the kitchen door open. It was very cold
in the house and I wanted to warm up the house quickly. It was an
emergency.

I would not normally use the oven/stove to heat the house. I have an
electric oven and it is much more expensive than gas. However, the
issue was about the heat from the oven being wasted. It may be wasted in
the summer when some houses are air conditioned and the AC has to work
extra hard to remove the heat from the cooking. That is not the case in
the winter here. We are already using energy to heat our houses.
Whatever heat is radiated from the stove or oven is that much less to be
produced by the furnace.