On 7/18/2016 8:57 AM, Cheri wrote:
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>
>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:19:29 -0700, sf > wrote:
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>>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:26:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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>>>>> I was in the mood for meatloaf tonight, but at 95 degrees outside I
>>>>> did
>>>>> not want to use the oven. Cooked it on the grill.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting that you said you didn't want to use the oven. From what
>>>> I've been told, modern gas ovens don't heat up the room like the gas
>>>> ovens of old did. Just an FYI: my "older than dirt" electric oven has
>>>> never heated up the room.
>>>
>>> This is a gas convection oven and it does add heat to the room. The
>>> grill worked and added no additional load to the AC. It was already
>>> 95 degrees but comfortable inside.
>>
>> My electric oven is about 12 years old and it does heat up the entire
>> house. Sometimes when the weather is just starting to turn cold, I'll
>> use it to make something just so I don't have to turn the heat on.
>
> Mine is a fairly new GE wall oven and it definitely adds heat since the
> fan blows hot air out for quite awhile afterwards.

That's the cooling fan for the electronics. Mine failed once during a
very high temperature bread baking session:-( Big bucks to repair the Bosch.
Graham