On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 9:36:34 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> On 6/3/2021 8:01 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > It sounds like kitchen myths your [grand]mothers passed down to you
> > without much science behind it. The oven isn't exactly a forced-air
> > furnace. Undisturbed heat rises pretty quickly while you spend most
> > of your time indoors in the lower 3/5ths of the space between your
> > feet and the ceiling.
>
> I didn't spend a lot of time with my grandmothers, I rarely saw them.
> So no, they didn't pass that myth down to me. My mother didn't, either.
> I'm pretty sure I first heard of such a thing on RFC. I never pay any
> attention to it. I use the oven year round, depending upon what I'm
> cooking.

There are a few people in Paris, London and New York who don't even cook.