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From: Janet <nobody@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:33:17 +0100
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In article <104t9eq$22hvm$4@dont-email.me>, chamilton5280
@invalid.com says...
> 
> On 2025-07-12, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:04:29 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:
> >
> >>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:
> >>>
> >>>>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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> > We've mainly had electric ovens in Australia. That could be a factor
> > if they need less venting.
> 
> Most ovens need some venting, to provide convection and keep the
> temperature within even.

   
 Fan ovens have been around for decades.

   Janet  UK