Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:54:21 +0000, Bruce wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:38:02 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:07:40 +0000, S Viemeister wrote:
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On 7/11/2025 8:37 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

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What's appearing on your menu tonight?  Home cooking
or eating out or at someone else's house?
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We had mashed potatoes, carrots, and sugar snap peas, with haddock,
dusted with seasoned flour and sauteed in half butter, half sunflower
oil.
qQick, simple and tasty - it was too hot to do much cooking.
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Oh, that sounds good, mmmmmmm haddock! 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.

It depends. My guess is that all modern ovens are heavily insulated. If
you have a gas oven, it needs to have a flow of air through it. Without
air, you cannot have combustion. The gas oven that I grew up with had a
vent out the front, over the door. There was also a vent that went up
through the roof. The heat released into the kitchen was pretty intense.
The combustion of gas also produces a good deal of water vapor. Heat
plus water vapor makes for a hot, unpleasant, kitchen - if you're in the
tropics. If you live in the cold, dry, North, it could make for a
pleasant, balmy, kitchen. My step-mom has a pretty big gas oven but she
mostly uses a Ninja Air Fryer for baking - so do I.
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