have you ever used your oven to heat your house?

Supposed to be 77F tommorow.

Brrr.

 

i actually lived once for roughly half a year in a cabin beginning in february and theres not a more comfortable feeling than wood stove heat but anyone who knows how that is knows by the time you wake up its nothing but cold :hysterica

 

bastard

 

No...wow Ive never thought about it before. I dont know how to adjust heat in my new house yet. I should learn. Ive been wearing alot of sweaters lately.

 

sorry this was kind of misleading i wasnt referring to wood stove heat originally but someone mentioned a wood stove and i flashedback...sorry to confuse

 

Well we don't actually use the oven to purposely heat the house persay, but I do a lot of cooking and baking, so after I'm done using the oven, I always open up the door to let the hot air out and it helps warm up the house in the colder months. We normally keep our house at 65 degrees in the fall/winter during the day, and around 60 at night, so the air from the oven makes it feels more toasty, at least in the kitchen and dining room. Doesn't have any affect on the rest of the house or the upstairs, but hey, at least two of the rooms feel more warm.

 

Every time you use the oven it heats the house. It's the first law of thermodynamics.

 

:drool:

 

no really my mouth is watering now thanks im starving!

 

jk

 

when my mom was a kid, a family that had just moved to her city from somewhere in Africa used this to heat their house in a cold snap... they all died of carbon monoxide poisoning

dont get me wrong, if youre cooking and you get the extra heat from that why the hell not. but using it as your primary source of head can be dangerous

 

nice

 

yup, we have a aga, heats the whole house

so comforting

blessings

xxx

 

We sure were poor when I was growing up, and the coal would run out alot and the electric oven worked great!


I still do it now if I forgot to bring wood in for the wood stove when it's early and still dark out while I am getting the kids ready for school...if it's not so crazy cold where the oven would'nt make much of a difference.

 

in russia we often do this

 

do what?