On 2017-02-24 2:47 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:46:41 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> On 2/24/2017 9:50 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 1:19:50 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 2/24/2017 1:57 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> What is to guess? In the winter we pay to heat our houses in many areas
>> of the world. The heat generated by the gs range is not wasted, it is
>> just needed heat added to the house. Same with leaving lights on. They
>> generate a lot of heat that you don't want in the summer but welcome in
>> the winter.
>
> You must have really bad heating systems.
>

My heating system works fine. It works well enough that if I am cooking
a dinner and I am using the oven and one or more burners, and heat from
those sources is helping to warm up the ambient air, the temperature
rises and my thermostat goes into action, shutting off the furnace.

I don't like baking and roasting in the oven during the hot days of
summer because that eat from the oven heats up the house too much and
makes it uncomfortable. I can use the AC to cool it off. That means I am
paying for and using energy to great the heat for cooking and then
paying again for energy to cool it off. It's a different story in the
winter when the heat that escapes from the oven warms up the house and
takes some of the load off the furnace. It is not wasted.