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From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:19:46 +1000
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:12:17 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
<chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

>On 2025-07-11, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:49:48 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
>><chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2025-07-11, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:38:02 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
>>>> (ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:07:40 +0000, S Viemeister wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/11/2025 8:37 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's appearing on your menu tonight?  Home cooking
>>>>>>> or eating out or at someone else's house?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>American ovens are poorly insulated.
>>>
>>>Physics tells us, though, that the heat from your oven will eventually
>>>make its way out into your kitchen.
>>
>> Yes, it's gotta go somewhere, but maybe more gradually than through
>> deliberate vents.
>
>At least some Australian ovens have vents.
>
>Google's AI informs me:
>
>"Integrated Oven Vents: Many ovens have vents built into the appliance
>itself, often located above the door, at the bottom of the control
>panel, or at the rear. These may utilize a fan to recirculate air or to
>direct fumes and heat outwards, according to Kleenmaid Appliances."

Maybe it's already so hot here that a working oven can't add much :)

-- 
Bruce
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