Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:24:01 +0000, Bruce wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:11:05 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:54:21 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:38:02 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:

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I'm dreading that oven.
Not the actual cooking just turning that dial knowing my kitchen
will feel like a blast furnace for over an hour.

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Americans here often say that their oven heats up their kitchen if not
half their house. I've never noticed much heat coming of an oven
unless I stand almost against it. Maybe we're talking about different
appliances.
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If my kitchen didn't face due west, I probably wouldn't give
it a thought.  A large window over the sink doesn't help, but
I do have an excellent room darkening shade over it which I
keep pulled down from about 1:00 p.m. until just dark.
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Shouldn't the heat an oven generates mainly be inside the oven, not
outside? Of course, I understand you don't need extra heat at 33C.
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Well, yes most of it is in the oven.  But they also have
vents along the front side of the stove behind the burners
releasing that heat into the room.  It doesn't help that
my kitchen is the size of a shoebox; sometimes I feel
like I'm cooking inside a kiln.