On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 05:52:04 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 7:29:18 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-07-18 8:05 AM, Janet wrote:
>> > In article >,
>> > says...
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:26:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> 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.
>> >
>> > I've often wondered about that as so many rfc posters mention not
>> > wanting to use the oven for that reason.
>> >
>> > Gas/electric ovens here are so insulated they just don't heat the
>> > kitchen. Even on cool days when you might wish they did :-)
>> >
>>
>>
>> Stoves here are well insulated too, but they are vented. The vent is
>> usually up through one of the top burners.
>>
>>
>The vent for my oven on my 3 year old gas range is at the back
>of the stove on the 'back splash' (that's all I could think to
>call it right off the top of my head). So, yes, they do heat up
>the house no matter the time of the year. And don't forget, that
>oven heat escapes whenever you open the door to either check,
>baste, or remove the food.

Yes, with better quality stoves the oven is vented through the
backsplash. Wall oven vents are usually located on the front facia
just above the door opening. In commercial kitchens ovens are vented
to the outdoors, next you're at a pizza parlor you'll see the flue
pipe exiting the top of the oven and going outside. Nasturally
everytime teh oven door is opened heat escapes, that's the reason for
glass panel oven doors and also oven lights. It would be nice if home
fridges had glass panel doors too, so people wouldn't be standing
there for ten minutes perussing with the door open and then take
nothing... a lot of people have a fridge psychosis, they can't pass
the fridge without opening the door just to take inventory... some
people are very ill, they can't be on the phone in the kitchen lest
the fridge door is open the entire time... they need to be committed
to the Perishables Sanitarium and work through the Kelvinator 12 step
program.