"dsi1" > wrote in message
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On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 8:24:43 PM UTC-10, 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.

Who the heck uses the oven to heat up a house? Ovens are for baking stuff.
In your home you can use the additional heat. We don't need any extra heat
most times. This does not stop me from using the oven. Electricity costing
3X the national average does not stop me from using the oven. A oven doesn't
cost that much to run - even in Hawaii. You should feel totally free to bake
stuff - just don't use it to heat up your house.

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I don't like turning on my heat. That drives my electric bill waaaay up. I
would never just turn the oven on for heat but I find if it is on, it heats
the house up nicely. So for this reason, I try to do a lot of baking and
roasting during the cold months. Then I can shut the heat off and leave it
off for an hour or three after the oven is off.