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From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:54:01 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:31:03 +0000, Bruce wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:00:03 +0100, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Americans here often say that their oven heats up their kitchen if not
>>>> half their house.
>>>
>>> Always strikes me as very odd too
>>>
>>> I've never noticed much heat coming of an oven
>>>> unless I stand almost against it.
>>>
>>>  Same here. Possibly there's more regulation in UK and
>>>Aus  about insulation to reduce energy consumption etc
>>
>> Yes, it must be something like that. Poor insulation.
>>
>>
>Remember this banana bread picture?  Look behind that
>can of Bakers Joy and you'll see a black and sort of
>silver line running horizontally.  That's the oven
>vent.  I made the mistake one time of sitting a pot
>on a back burner that was off, but the oven was on.
>Quick as lightning I jerked my hand back from the heat.
>There's no heat escaping around the oven door, it's
>the vent releasing the heat into the room.
>
>https://i.postimg.cc/QM6pY8NJ/Banana-Bread.jpg
>
>Thankfully, no stovetop cooking today to add to the
>heat.

Tricky. I wouldn't expect high heat there if the burner was off.

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Bruce
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