In article >,
zxcvbob > wrote:

> Priscilla Ballou wrote:
> > In article >,
> > zxcvbob > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Louis Cohen wrote:
> >>
> >>>Which one is more energy-efficient?
> >>
> >>In the winter, it doesn't make any difference because the "wasted"
> >>energy helps heat your house -- probably more efficiently than your furnace.
> >
> >
> > You must have a much more poorly insulated oven than I do. I don't lose
> > much heat when it's on and its door is shut.

> The point is whatever inefficiency you have using the oven instead of
> the stovetop is made up by your furnace running less.

But my furnace *doesn't* run less. There is little heat benefit from a
closed oven. Or at least my well-insulated oven.

> In the summer, the oven insulation makes a big difference in energy
> efficiency. In the winter, it doesn't.

I don't think you follow. Your point was that the extra fuel burned by
cooking in the oven would have a secondary effect of heating the house.
My point was that my oven is well insulated and most heat doesn't get
out of it to heat the house, so it's wasted.

Priscilla

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