On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:57:26 -0500, "Dee Randall"
<deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote:

>
>"Rodney Myrvaagnes" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:19:41 GMT, Priscilla Ballou
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>> No way, Priscilla. The heat can't disappear from the universe. Better
>> insulation will slow the transfer, but it doesn't prevent it forever.
>> Otherwise the oven would never cool. When it does cool, the heat is in
>> the house. It either relieves the furnace or burdens the AC, depending
>> on circumstances.
>>
>>
>I thought ovens were vented to the outside, so the heat could go OUTSIDE; am
>I wrong?
>Dee
>
It could be done, especially in a single house. But I have never seen
a home oven that was.



Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

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