Do you use the oven if you have the AC on?

I don't usually, but the young adults in my house do.

I have never understood this argument. My inside temp in the summer is 68. It's not much different than my winter temp of 66. What difference does it make?

And then my oven insulated. So the only hot time is when I open to put the meal in and take the meal out.

Anyway, I just have never understood this argument if you have AC. Unless of course your idea of AC temp is like 78 or something.

I try not to. If I can cook something in the toaster oven, I'll do that. I will actively plan cooking around not turning on the oven. I got out of my way in summer to eat cold foods when I can.

If necessary yes of course. I don’t give it much thought.

Of course.
When it is hot weather we eat more meals that are "cool" foods, but we use the oven if needed and never even consider doing otherwise.

I try not to only because I don’t want to work over a hot stove. I will use the crockpot, instant pot, air fryer or just make some type of salad for dinner.

We live in the PNW and don’t use the ac often as it usually cools down enough at night to leave the windows open and cool the house down. If we need ac I’m not offsetting the cool air in the house with a hot stove/oven.

To me it’s like leaving the front door or windows open when it’s snowing outside and the heater is running. It doesn’t make sense to me. But I know lots of people who think nothing of it. Different strokes and all that. 😊

I do if I have something that needs to go in the oven. Such as our regular Saturday night pizza. 

The times when I might consciously decide NOT to use the oven would be on those days where it's not quite hot enough for the AC but almost... And if I put the oven on it might push the house to AC temps. But I much prefer to have the windows opened, and I love sleeping with open windows, so on those "almost" days I might choose a different menu.

Yes. We have central air. If we didn't, I'd understand not heating up the house, but it doesn't really warm up my house all that much.

AC is on here from May (although it was very late May this year) through October. It would be severely limiting in food preparation if I didn't use the oven. However, I try to use the Breville countertop oven and crock pot as much as possible.

On days that we need a/c I don't use the oven and try not to use the stovetop.  Those are good air fryer or Instant Pot days.

I do, but not as much. If there's another option for cooking what I want to cook, I'll use it. I will also avoid cooking things that requires long hours in the oven.

I think my oven was poorly insulated when it was installed, so it does heat the house up pretty badly. It's time to get a new one anyway, as this one is definitely not heating consistently and heats way cooler than it should. (My dad tried to tell me I can just adjust it, etc. and read the manual - until I pointed out that this one is around 35 years old and the most digital thing about it is the clock!)

We have central air so I never give it a thought when using the oven. Since it is usually just DH and I we do use our air fryer/toaster oven quite a bit (we make smaller meals).

If I need to use the oven, I use it.


We did not have AC growing up, so in the summer, we rarely used the oven in the hottest part of summer. We do have AC now, so that isnt an issue