have you ever used your oven to heat your house?

it gets nice and toasty warm and fast!

 

Hey not one to rain on your parade but if it's a gas oven you're going to get a lot of carbon monoxide and that ain't no good and if it's an electric oven you will probably soon burn out the electric elements as they are not made for that purpose. Sorry chief.

 

its not mine oh well


plus no sorry no rain that is not gonna happen

 

my oven automatically heats my house-it's gas so whenever we use it, our house becomes an oven...there are times i think if i sprinkled a little garlic over myself, i'd taste well done!

 

yes

before getting an electric heater

 

When I was growing up, we didn't have a lot of money...and, yes, we would have to heat the house using the oven...

Sad...

 

The house is too big to heat the whole thing with the oven, but it does heat up the living room and kitchen pretty well (they're only separated by a bar), and at my parents' house, the kitchen's tiny, so the oven heats it up pretty good. But not the whole house, certainly.

 

yes, indeed...many a time that's been the only option available until i worked something else out. warm is nice. i still plan on using the oven to cook or the dryer to dry clothes before turning on the heat...oh and wearing extra clothes and doing something active...so i don't need to turn on the heat. my heat bill is gonna kill me this winter...they raised the rates.

 

at the last apartment that i livid in, (the one i burnt down), we had baseboard heating that was controlled by the landlord. we couldnt adjust the heat and he didn t turn it on very high. it was a tiny one bedroom so the oven heated it up fairly quickly. but i got a gas furnace now in my new place, (a slightly bigger one bedroom), so depending on the gas bill i might use the oven a little bit. it is a quick source of a lot of heat.

 

lots of times and places, especially when i was growing up, we had to do that. and nothing like baking something, even if its only a spud, on a cold chilly day.

most of my childhood was spent in places where ice and snow would knock out the power lines at least a couple of times for several days or even weeks, every winter.

small towns, very small towns, or even just wide places on the railroad my father worked most of his life for.

lots of good memories that. and while wife and i live now where we almost never really have to, we still do that every once in a while when it actually cools off enough to make an excuse that we actually can.

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I do this. Whenever I am cooking something in the oven, toaster oven, stove, etc. I leave the doors open to the heat out (yes, I know stoves don't have doors). It's rather efficient.

 

its good recycling of heat, and the energy to produce it, that would otherwise be wasted, to do so. espcially the heat still in them after you turn them off after baking something. (in HOT weather i just don't bake, except at night if it gets cool enough)

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I've got some good garlic...... :H

 

garlic bread equals warm house and happy me for sure

 

Yes in an emergency with the window open a bit.

 

exactly actually thats the best part im not paying the bill and i definitely prefer hanging around in shorts or less and fresh air so ya pump the oven open the windows!



lol sorry enviros i make up for it in other ways

 

I have a kerosene heater that heats the house up nicely.

 

no, house is too big for that and the way it is set up, even if it was smaller, it wouldn't do anything but heat the kitchen

 

perfect

 

When I was growing up my parents used kerosene heaters. But my grandparents used to use their wood burning stove to heat part of the house. In the winter everyone gathered around the kitchen for warmth.