"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2018-02-26 1:24 AM, 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 can't see the point of offering advice. Your friend told you to look at
> the meter. That would tell you how much power it is using. It would take
> enough brains to look at it with and without the oven on to compare the
> consumption rates, but you won't do that.

I don't know how your meters work. Not even sure how mine works except that
there are needles that go back and forth. That tells me nothing.