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Default Oven wastes energy?


"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:24:33 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>I was chastised the other day by a friend of a friend for using my oven. I
>>said that I liked to use it a lot in the winter for baking and such
>>because
>>it helped warm up the house and that meant I could often keep the heat off
>>when it was on. She told me that it is very costly to run an electric oven
>>and that I shouldn't use it. Told me if I didn't believe her to go look at
>>my meter next time it was on. I can't see that would help me as I am not
>>in
>>the habit of looking at my meter so don't know what it does to begin with.
>>
>>Anyway... Is there any truth to this? This person has told me a lot of
>>other
>>things that were wrong.

>
> I read -maybe here- that one advantage of using an air fryer was that
> it's cheaper to run than an oven. Of course, you can't bake a bread in
> an air fryer.


Ah... That could be.