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Post by gar on Jun 24, 2024 16:08:25 GMT
My oven might heat the kitchen a bit (more so if it was on for a longer time which isn't often these days) but not the whole house. Min you we don't have AC so it's irrelevant  |
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Jun 24, 2024 16:16:10 GMT
Yes; if i didn't use the oven when the A/C is on, I'd only be baking, making casseroles, or eating frozen pizzas mid-December through early-March! It doesn't impact house temp in any way that I've noticed.
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jun 24, 2024 16:20:12 GMT
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. Same here. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 24, 2024 16:24:37 GMT
I set my AC to come on automatically when the place hits a certain temperature in the spring and don’t touch it again until the weather gets cold in October. I was told when I first got AC to set it and forget it until the cold weather returns. That it was more cost effective this way than turning it on & off as needed.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jun 24, 2024 16:28:07 GMT
Absolutely. When I gotta cook I gotta cook. Which is not saying much. haha I really don't put those two things hand in hand. I do have a self cleaning oven (which is probably most of us).. but I won't or try not to clean during hot weather since it really really heats up. |
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Post by Fidget on Jun 24, 2024 18:18:43 GMT
Yes - all the time
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Post by cakediva on Jun 24, 2024 18:20:02 GMT
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’m with you. Our oven doesn’t heat up the kitchen. And I’d never get any work done if I couldn’t bake in my commercial oven in the basement! |
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Post by SabrinaP on Jun 24, 2024 18:27:11 GMT
Yeah we wouldn’t be able to use the oven March through November if not.
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Post by tenakee on Jun 24, 2024 22:13:16 GMT
One of the many, many reasons that I was happy to move from Texas to Alaska. There we didn't use the oven for probably six to eight months out of the year as it was just too hot and we didn't want to make the AC work any harder than it already was. Granted, we had a 100+ year old house that could have been better insulated, but still. Here? I don't even think twice about turning on the oven even for just a couple of dinner rolls. IN JULY!!!  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 24, 2024 22:28:52 GMT
Only when I really have to, like today. 🥵 For us personally, when it’s really hot I prefer to make something in the air fryer, Instant Pot, microwave, eat something cold or DH most commonly will grill or smoke something outside. Or best of all, we just go out. We have central air and having the oven on does heat up the kitchen some.
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Post by teddyw on Jun 24, 2024 23:17:14 GMT
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. Me either. I don’t notice my house getting hotter from it. |
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Post by don on Jun 25, 2024 2:20:11 GMT
My AC is a window type. It cools the whole house be cause I use a fan to carry the coolness on down to the other end of the house. I have not used it yet this year because here in Seattle it's not been that hot. It has been too hot to sleep so I use a fan in the bedroom.
I do have an oven, but it hasn't been used in over 6 years, when The Queen said she was done cooking and we started eating out every night. I only use the micro wave or the stove top.
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Post by grammadee on Jun 25, 2024 2:32:47 GMT
Don’t have AC. Don’t use my oven in hot weather. I have a portable oven on the deck. Plus a number of other small appliances I can use out there.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 25, 2024 2:45:29 GMT
It's no accident that no major cooking indoors holidays happen during the summer. |
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Post by carhoch on Jun 25, 2024 3:57:46 GMT
Of course I do but I make most of my bread and a pie here and there but I will not make a stew or something that take hours , mostly because I don’t feel eating that in the summer .
But right now I am traveling in Alaska it was 60° today I love it .
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Post by scrappert on Jun 25, 2024 12:38:33 GMT
I try not to.
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Post by gottapeanow on Jun 25, 2024 18:49:38 GMT
Yes, I still use it. In AZ, the A/C runs almost constantly from May 1 to September 30.
But I do use the oven less for sure. No bread baking in the summer and less baking overall.
And I also have time-of-day billing. So I wait until after 7 p.m. to use it when the rates go down. Or use it in the a.m.
Lisa
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