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If I run my oven in the summer at 400F(~200°C) for an hour or two, this produces a great amount of heat.
Is this energy vented outdoors once the oven is turned off, or does it simply dissipate from inside the oven to the inside of my home? I suspect it is the latter since I've never seen ventilation going outdoors from an oven, but I'm wondering if this might be the case for other ovens/homes.
Running an oven in the summer while using air conditioning to counteract the heat seems like an extreme use of energy.
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If I run my oven in the summer at 400F(~200°C) for an hour or two, this produces a great amount of heat.
Is this energy vented outdoors once the oven is turned off, or does it simply dissipate from inside the oven to the inside of my home? I suspect it is the latter since I've never seen ventilation going outdoors from an oven, but I'm wondering if this might be the case for other ovens/homes.
Running an oven in the summer while using air conditioning to counteract the heat seems like an extreme use of energy.
oven heat
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I like to turn the kitchen fan on and open the oven door to get it to cool down as quickly as possible after use.
– aris
Sep 15 at 17:53
Some hot air comes out of the front of my household oven, and if I am baking with steam then steam comes out too. There is an extractor over the oven and if I switch it on it sucks in the hot air/steam and vents it outside. Does that count?
– RedSonja
Sep 16 at 7:22
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You've already got the correct answer: oven heat comes into the house, eventually, always. Another posted usefully suggests running your hood vent, assuming it exhausts to outside and you can open a window nearby, but if it's hot out, you might wind up drawing more heat in from outside than the oven would dump into the room. FWIW, our household solution to this is a capable toaster oven (e.g. Breville) which is sufficient for 70-80% of our oven needs. In the summer, we just put it outside and cook/bake there. :)
– Peter Duniho
Sep 16 at 17:57
If you need AC largely for dehumidification, waste heat from the oven doesn't really hurt. It just allows you to set your thermostat higher without getting unbearably humid.
– R..
Sep 16 at 22:53
1
If you vented the oven to the outside all your heat would be expelled and it wouldn't be much good for cooking....The whole idea of a modern kitchen oven is to have a box full of hot air to cook the food.
– Greg Nickoloff
Sep 18 at 18:19
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If I run my oven in the summer at 400F(~200°C) for an hour or two, this produces a great amount of heat.
Is this energy vented outdoors once the oven is turned off, or does it simply dissipate from inside the oven to the inside of my home? I suspect it is the latter since I've never seen ventilation going outdoors from an oven, but I'm wondering if this might be the case for other ovens/homes.
Running an oven in the summer while using air conditioning to counteract the heat seems like an extreme use of energy.
oven heat
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If I run my oven in the summer at 400F(~200°C) for an hour or two, this produces a great amount of heat.
Is this energy vented outdoors once the oven is turned off, or does it simply dissipate from inside the oven to the inside of my home? I suspect it is the latter since I've never seen ventilation going outdoors from an oven, but I'm wondering if this might be the case for other ovens/homes.
Running an oven in the summer while using air conditioning to counteract the heat seems like an extreme use of energy.
oven heat
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I like to turn the kitchen fan on and open the oven door to get it to cool down as quickly as possible after use.
– aris
Sep 15 at 17:53
Some hot air comes out of the front of my household oven, and if I am baking with steam then steam comes out too. There is an extractor over the oven and if I switch it on it sucks in the hot air/steam and vents it outside. Does that count?
– RedSonja
Sep 16 at 7:22
2
You've already got the correct answer: oven heat comes into the house, eventually, always. Another posted usefully suggests running your hood vent, assuming it exhausts to outside and you can open a window nearby, but if it's hot out, you might wind up drawing more heat in from outside than the oven would dump into the room. FWIW, our household solution to this is a capable toaster oven (e.g. Breville) which is sufficient for 70-80% of our oven needs. In the summer, we just put it outside and cook/bake there. :)
– Peter Duniho
Sep 16 at 17:57
If you need AC largely for dehumidification, waste heat from the oven doesn't really hurt. It just allows you to set your thermostat higher without getting unbearably humid.
– R..
Sep 16 at 22:53
1
If you vented the oven to the outside all your heat would be expelled and it wouldn't be much good for cooking....The whole idea of a modern kitchen oven is to have a box full of hot air to cook the food.
– Greg Nickoloff
Sep 18 at 18:19
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I like to turn the kitchen fan on and open the oven door to get it to cool down as quickly as possible after use.
– aris
Sep 15 at 17:53
Some hot air comes out of the front of my household oven, and if I am baking with steam then steam comes out too. There is an extractor over the oven and if I switch it on it sucks in the hot air/steam and vents it outside. Does that count?
– RedSonja
Sep 16 at 7:22
2
You've already got the correct answer: oven heat comes into the house, eventually, always. Another posted usefully suggests running your hood vent, assuming it exhausts to outside and you can open a window nearby, but if it's hot out, you might wind up drawing more heat in from outside than the oven would dump into the room. FWIW, our household solution to this is a capable toaster oven (e.g. Breville) which is sufficient for 70-80% of our oven needs. In the summer, we just put it outside and cook/bake there. :)
– Peter Duniho
Sep 16 at 17:57
If you need AC largely for dehumidification, waste heat from the oven doesn't really hurt. It just allows you to set your thermostat higher without getting unbearably humid.
– R..
Sep 16 at 22:53
1
If you vented the oven to the outside all your heat would be expelled and it wouldn't be much good for cooking....The whole idea of a modern kitchen oven is to have a box full of hot air to cook the food.
– Greg Nickoloff
Sep 18 at 18:19
2
2
I like to turn the kitchen fan on and open the oven door to get it to cool down as quickly as possible after use.
– aris
Sep 15 at 17:53
I like to turn the kitchen fan on and open the oven door to get it to cool down as quickly as possible after use.
– aris
Sep 15 at 17:53
Some hot air comes out of the front of my household oven, and if I am baking with steam then steam comes out too. There is an extractor over the oven and if I switch it on it sucks in the hot air/steam and vents it outside. Does that count?
– RedSonja
Sep 16 at 7:22
Some hot air comes out of the front of my household oven, and if I am baking with steam then steam comes out too. There is an extractor over the oven and if I switch it on it sucks in the hot air/steam and vents it outside. Does that count?
– RedSonja
Sep 16 at 7:22
2
2
You've already got the correct answer: oven heat comes into the house, eventually, always. Another posted usefully suggests running your hood vent, assuming it exhausts to outside and you can open a window nearby, but if it's hot out, you might wind up drawing more heat in from outside than the oven would dump into the room. FWIW, our household solution to this is a capable toaster oven (e.g. Breville) which is sufficient for 70-80% of our oven needs. In the summer, we just put it outside and cook/bake there. :)
– Peter Duniho
Sep 16 at 17:57
You've already got the correct answer: oven heat comes into the house, eventually, always. Another posted usefully suggests running your hood vent, assuming it exhausts to outside and you can open a window nearby, but if it's hot out, you might wind up drawing more heat in from outside than the oven would dump into the room. FWIW, our household solution to this is a capable toaster oven (e.g. Breville) which is sufficient for 70-80% of our oven needs. In the summer, we just put it outside and cook/bake there. :)
– Peter Duniho
Sep 16 at 17:57
If you need AC largely for dehumidification, waste heat from the oven doesn't really hurt. It just allows you to set your thermostat higher without getting unbearably humid.
– R..
Sep 16 at 22:53
If you need AC largely for dehumidification, waste heat from the oven doesn't really hurt. It just allows you to set your thermostat higher without getting unbearably humid.
– R..
Sep 16 at 22:53
1
1
If you vented the oven to the outside all your heat would be expelled and it wouldn't be much good for cooking....The whole idea of a modern kitchen oven is to have a box full of hot air to cook the food.
– Greg Nickoloff
Sep 18 at 18:19
If you vented the oven to the outside all your heat would be expelled and it wouldn't be much good for cooking....The whole idea of a modern kitchen oven is to have a box full of hot air to cook the food.
– Greg Nickoloff
Sep 18 at 18:19
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I've never seen one that vents to outside, and I've used kitchens in several countries.
In many places we need to heat our houses for quite a few months each year, and the waste heat from cooking is very welcome. I try to avoid using my oven in summer, choosing other things to eat instead.
Note that modern ovens are designed to be well sealed and well insulated, but many have a fan to cool the space in which the oven is installed; that's the source of warm air into the room with the door shut.
You can minimise the heat produced (i.e. the electricity used by both the oven and the air conditioning) by opening the door as little as possible, and by only preheating if you really need to. A well-insulated oven can be turned off a few minutes early for many dishes as it will retain enough heat to carry on cooking. In other words - cook as efficiently as possible. The benefit of this is greater if you're using air conditioning.
answered Sep 15 at 17:50
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Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
– Viktor Mellgren
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So it's not directly fighting the air-con in summer, my usual trick is …
Oven on, kitchen window open, kitchen door shut.
If you have an extractor hood that vents outdoors, that's going to help the job the open window is doing too.
After cooking, oven off - mine has fans that vent into the room, separate from the ones circulating the heat internally. They keep going long after the oven is switched off. That's lovely in winter but not so much fun in summer.
No matter how it achieves this, or whether you open the oven door to get the heat out faster, the laws of physics say that sooner or later, all the 'extra' heat in the oven will make it into your kitchen. There's not a thing you can do about that.
Leave window open [& extractor on, if applicable] & kitchen door shut until equilibrium is reached between indoors & outdoors, when oven is almost cold.
Close window, open kitchen door, let the air-con do its job once more.
It's imperfect, but until someone designs a cooker that will vent directly to the outside, in summer only, then it's the best you can do.
Depending on your architecture, it wouldn't be impossible to mount an extractor directly behind the oven, vented to the outside - though as I've never seen this done anywhere, I'm guessing grease build-up would make it either unsafe or just require so frequent strip/clean procedures that no-one considers it worth the effort. Link to local UK supplier of kitchen vent systems. Commercial kitchens have massive extractor hoods over the range area [which get cleaned every few months] but they're really to vent steam & grease, not to cool the room. Temperatures near commercial ranges in kitchens reach two degrees short of "Why on earth would anyone want to do this for a living?" even in winter.
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In order for the heat of the oven to be purposefully ventilated somewhere else, there would have to be not only a fan, but a back door in the oven and some way to trigger the opening of the door and turning the fan on and off.
There are no back doors in ovens.
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Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
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I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
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There are some ovens that vent outside, but these are the exception. Assuming we're talking a typical North American oven, check one of your rear burners; the oven is typically vented through there. For induction or radiant cooktops, there's usually a vent above the rear elements.
Obviously there's no easy way around this, but if you were feeling inventive you could probably rig up some insulated flexible metal tubing (i.e. dryer vent hose) to pipe the heat out a window or range hood vent while you're cooking something for an extended period.
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I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
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I have a swanky Viking oven that, when it decides to light and do some work, does exhaust heat to the outside via some interior fan. It is not the same fan as it has over the cooktop where you can see it sucking up smoke and cat hair. You can hear the interior fan go on about 5 min after the oven has been shut off.
So it is possible.
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So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
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@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
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I've never heard of an oven being vented to the outside. So, unless you have an exhaust fan that is vented to the outside, you're pretty much stuck with the heat.
Note, though, that the oven will gradually cool down after the energy source is cut off. The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate nearly as quickly into your house as long as you keep the oven door closed.
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The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
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While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
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"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
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@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
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No ovens are designed to ventilate outside. I actually tried making mini oven with vent connected to window but it not only failed to contain heat but also heated my room anyways.
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I've never seen one that vents to outside, and I've used kitchens in several countries.
In many places we need to heat our houses for quite a few months each year, and the waste heat from cooking is very welcome. I try to avoid using my oven in summer, choosing other things to eat instead.
Note that modern ovens are designed to be well sealed and well insulated, but many have a fan to cool the space in which the oven is installed; that's the source of warm air into the room with the door shut.
You can minimise the heat produced (i.e. the electricity used by both the oven and the air conditioning) by opening the door as little as possible, and by only preheating if you really need to. A well-insulated oven can be turned off a few minutes early for many dishes as it will retain enough heat to carry on cooking. In other words - cook as efficiently as possible. The benefit of this is greater if you're using air conditioning.
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Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
– Viktor Mellgren
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I've never seen one that vents to outside, and I've used kitchens in several countries.
In many places we need to heat our houses for quite a few months each year, and the waste heat from cooking is very welcome. I try to avoid using my oven in summer, choosing other things to eat instead.
Note that modern ovens are designed to be well sealed and well insulated, but many have a fan to cool the space in which the oven is installed; that's the source of warm air into the room with the door shut.
You can minimise the heat produced (i.e. the electricity used by both the oven and the air conditioning) by opening the door as little as possible, and by only preheating if you really need to. A well-insulated oven can be turned off a few minutes early for many dishes as it will retain enough heat to carry on cooking. In other words - cook as efficiently as possible. The benefit of this is greater if you're using air conditioning.
answered Sep 15 at 17:50
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Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
– Viktor Mellgren
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I've never seen one that vents to outside, and I've used kitchens in several countries.
In many places we need to heat our houses for quite a few months each year, and the waste heat from cooking is very welcome. I try to avoid using my oven in summer, choosing other things to eat instead.
Note that modern ovens are designed to be well sealed and well insulated, but many have a fan to cool the space in which the oven is installed; that's the source of warm air into the room with the door shut.
You can minimise the heat produced (i.e. the electricity used by both the oven and the air conditioning) by opening the door as little as possible, and by only preheating if you really need to. A well-insulated oven can be turned off a few minutes early for many dishes as it will retain enough heat to carry on cooking. In other words - cook as efficiently as possible. The benefit of this is greater if you're using air conditioning.
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I've never seen one that vents to outside, and I've used kitchens in several countries.
In many places we need to heat our houses for quite a few months each year, and the waste heat from cooking is very welcome. I try to avoid using my oven in summer, choosing other things to eat instead.
Note that modern ovens are designed to be well sealed and well insulated, but many have a fan to cool the space in which the oven is installed; that's the source of warm air into the room with the door shut.
You can minimise the heat produced (i.e. the electricity used by both the oven and the air conditioning) by opening the door as little as possible, and by only preheating if you really need to. A well-insulated oven can be turned off a few minutes early for many dishes as it will retain enough heat to carry on cooking. In other words - cook as efficiently as possible. The benefit of this is greater if you're using air conditioning.
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Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
– Viktor Mellgren
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Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
– Viktor Mellgren
Sep 18 at 10:13
Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
– Viktor Mellgren
Sep 18 at 10:13
Possibly also use the fan if you have a fan-assisted oven/convection oven for faster cooking (beware opening it if fan is running however).
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So it's not directly fighting the air-con in summer, my usual trick is …
Oven on, kitchen window open, kitchen door shut.
If you have an extractor hood that vents outdoors, that's going to help the job the open window is doing too.
After cooking, oven off - mine has fans that vent into the room, separate from the ones circulating the heat internally. They keep going long after the oven is switched off. That's lovely in winter but not so much fun in summer.
No matter how it achieves this, or whether you open the oven door to get the heat out faster, the laws of physics say that sooner or later, all the 'extra' heat in the oven will make it into your kitchen. There's not a thing you can do about that.
Leave window open [& extractor on, if applicable] & kitchen door shut until equilibrium is reached between indoors & outdoors, when oven is almost cold.
Close window, open kitchen door, let the air-con do its job once more.
It's imperfect, but until someone designs a cooker that will vent directly to the outside, in summer only, then it's the best you can do.
Depending on your architecture, it wouldn't be impossible to mount an extractor directly behind the oven, vented to the outside - though as I've never seen this done anywhere, I'm guessing grease build-up would make it either unsafe or just require so frequent strip/clean procedures that no-one considers it worth the effort. Link to local UK supplier of kitchen vent systems. Commercial kitchens have massive extractor hoods over the range area [which get cleaned every few months] but they're really to vent steam & grease, not to cool the room. Temperatures near commercial ranges in kitchens reach two degrees short of "Why on earth would anyone want to do this for a living?" even in winter.
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So it's not directly fighting the air-con in summer, my usual trick is …
Oven on, kitchen window open, kitchen door shut.
If you have an extractor hood that vents outdoors, that's going to help the job the open window is doing too.
After cooking, oven off - mine has fans that vent into the room, separate from the ones circulating the heat internally. They keep going long after the oven is switched off. That's lovely in winter but not so much fun in summer.
No matter how it achieves this, or whether you open the oven door to get the heat out faster, the laws of physics say that sooner or later, all the 'extra' heat in the oven will make it into your kitchen. There's not a thing you can do about that.
Leave window open [& extractor on, if applicable] & kitchen door shut until equilibrium is reached between indoors & outdoors, when oven is almost cold.
Close window, open kitchen door, let the air-con do its job once more.
It's imperfect, but until someone designs a cooker that will vent directly to the outside, in summer only, then it's the best you can do.
Depending on your architecture, it wouldn't be impossible to mount an extractor directly behind the oven, vented to the outside - though as I've never seen this done anywhere, I'm guessing grease build-up would make it either unsafe or just require so frequent strip/clean procedures that no-one considers it worth the effort. Link to local UK supplier of kitchen vent systems. Commercial kitchens have massive extractor hoods over the range area [which get cleaned every few months] but they're really to vent steam & grease, not to cool the room. Temperatures near commercial ranges in kitchens reach two degrees short of "Why on earth would anyone want to do this for a living?" even in winter.
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So it's not directly fighting the air-con in summer, my usual trick is …
Oven on, kitchen window open, kitchen door shut.
If you have an extractor hood that vents outdoors, that's going to help the job the open window is doing too.
After cooking, oven off - mine has fans that vent into the room, separate from the ones circulating the heat internally. They keep going long after the oven is switched off. That's lovely in winter but not so much fun in summer.
No matter how it achieves this, or whether you open the oven door to get the heat out faster, the laws of physics say that sooner or later, all the 'extra' heat in the oven will make it into your kitchen. There's not a thing you can do about that.
Leave window open [& extractor on, if applicable] & kitchen door shut until equilibrium is reached between indoors & outdoors, when oven is almost cold.
Close window, open kitchen door, let the air-con do its job once more.
It's imperfect, but until someone designs a cooker that will vent directly to the outside, in summer only, then it's the best you can do.
Depending on your architecture, it wouldn't be impossible to mount an extractor directly behind the oven, vented to the outside - though as I've never seen this done anywhere, I'm guessing grease build-up would make it either unsafe or just require so frequent strip/clean procedures that no-one considers it worth the effort. Link to local UK supplier of kitchen vent systems. Commercial kitchens have massive extractor hoods over the range area [which get cleaned every few months] but they're really to vent steam & grease, not to cool the room. Temperatures near commercial ranges in kitchens reach two degrees short of "Why on earth would anyone want to do this for a living?" even in winter.
answered Sep 16 at 8:09
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So it's not directly fighting the air-con in summer, my usual trick is …
Oven on, kitchen window open, kitchen door shut.
If you have an extractor hood that vents outdoors, that's going to help the job the open window is doing too.
After cooking, oven off - mine has fans that vent into the room, separate from the ones circulating the heat internally. They keep going long after the oven is switched off. That's lovely in winter but not so much fun in summer.
No matter how it achieves this, or whether you open the oven door to get the heat out faster, the laws of physics say that sooner or later, all the 'extra' heat in the oven will make it into your kitchen. There's not a thing you can do about that.
Leave window open [& extractor on, if applicable] & kitchen door shut until equilibrium is reached between indoors & outdoors, when oven is almost cold.
Close window, open kitchen door, let the air-con do its job once more.
It's imperfect, but until someone designs a cooker that will vent directly to the outside, in summer only, then it's the best you can do.
Depending on your architecture, it wouldn't be impossible to mount an extractor directly behind the oven, vented to the outside - though as I've never seen this done anywhere, I'm guessing grease build-up would make it either unsafe or just require so frequent strip/clean procedures that no-one considers it worth the effort. Link to local UK supplier of kitchen vent systems. Commercial kitchens have massive extractor hoods over the range area [which get cleaned every few months] but they're really to vent steam & grease, not to cool the room. Temperatures near commercial ranges in kitchens reach two degrees short of "Why on earth would anyone want to do this for a living?" even in winter.
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In order for the heat of the oven to be purposefully ventilated somewhere else, there would have to be not only a fan, but a back door in the oven and some way to trigger the opening of the door and turning the fan on and off.
There are no back doors in ovens.
answered Sep 16 at 7:00
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Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
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I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 12:12
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In order for the heat of the oven to be purposefully ventilated somewhere else, there would have to be not only a fan, but a back door in the oven and some way to trigger the opening of the door and turning the fan on and off.
There are no back doors in ovens.
answered Sep 16 at 7:00
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Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
5
I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 12:12
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In order for the heat of the oven to be purposefully ventilated somewhere else, there would have to be not only a fan, but a back door in the oven and some way to trigger the opening of the door and turning the fan on and off.
There are no back doors in ovens.
answered Sep 16 at 7:00
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In order for the heat of the oven to be purposefully ventilated somewhere else, there would have to be not only a fan, but a back door in the oven and some way to trigger the opening of the door and turning the fan on and off.
There are no back doors in ovens.
answered Sep 16 at 7:00
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Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
5
I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 12:12
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Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
5
I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 12:12
1
1
Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
Some ovens do have external cooling fans [mine does] - though they blow into the room, not to an extractor. It wouldn't be impossible to design them the other way… but no-one has, as far as I'm aware. A neat trick would be to have them vent out in summer & in in winter… but then we'd need your 'magic door' solution too ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 8:14
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
@Tetsujin just a fan to more quickly bring the oven to room temperature (by raising the temperature of the room)?
– RonJohn
Sep 16 at 12:10
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5
I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
– Tetsujin
Sep 16 at 12:12
I think the intention is to keep the housing & surrounding kitchen units cool, prevent hot-spots.
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Sep 16 at 12:12
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There are some ovens that vent outside, but these are the exception. Assuming we're talking a typical North American oven, check one of your rear burners; the oven is typically vented through there. For induction or radiant cooktops, there's usually a vent above the rear elements.
Obviously there's no easy way around this, but if you were feeling inventive you could probably rig up some insulated flexible metal tubing (i.e. dryer vent hose) to pipe the heat out a window or range hood vent while you're cooking something for an extended period.
answered Sep 16 at 18:48
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I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
Sep 17 at 14:18
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There are some ovens that vent outside, but these are the exception. Assuming we're talking a typical North American oven, check one of your rear burners; the oven is typically vented through there. For induction or radiant cooktops, there's usually a vent above the rear elements.
Obviously there's no easy way around this, but if you were feeling inventive you could probably rig up some insulated flexible metal tubing (i.e. dryer vent hose) to pipe the heat out a window or range hood vent while you're cooking something for an extended period.
answered Sep 16 at 18:48
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I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
Sep 17 at 14:18
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There are some ovens that vent outside, but these are the exception. Assuming we're talking a typical North American oven, check one of your rear burners; the oven is typically vented through there. For induction or radiant cooktops, there's usually a vent above the rear elements.
Obviously there's no easy way around this, but if you were feeling inventive you could probably rig up some insulated flexible metal tubing (i.e. dryer vent hose) to pipe the heat out a window or range hood vent while you're cooking something for an extended period.
answered Sep 16 at 18:48
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There are some ovens that vent outside, but these are the exception. Assuming we're talking a typical North American oven, check one of your rear burners; the oven is typically vented through there. For induction or radiant cooktops, there's usually a vent above the rear elements.
Obviously there's no easy way around this, but if you were feeling inventive you could probably rig up some insulated flexible metal tubing (i.e. dryer vent hose) to pipe the heat out a window or range hood vent while you're cooking something for an extended period.
answered Sep 16 at 18:48
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I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
Sep 17 at 14:18
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I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
Sep 17 at 14:18
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I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
I think the oven described in your first link has a built-in kitchen exhaust vent which sucks the air with kitchen fumes in from the cooking surface. It is an alternative to the more common exhaust hood. Its primary purpose is not to transport excess heat to the outside, at least not any more than an exhaust hood.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Sep 17 at 14:03
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
Sep 17 at 14:18
Yup looks like the oven vent is in the downdraft vent at the cooktop surface. But, while not directly venting to the outdoors, I expect if one had the downdraft fan on, it would at least remove some of the heat. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
– miken32
Sep 17 at 14:18
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I have a swanky Viking oven that, when it decides to light and do some work, does exhaust heat to the outside via some interior fan. It is not the same fan as it has over the cooktop where you can see it sucking up smoke and cat hair. You can hear the interior fan go on about 5 min after the oven has been shut off.
So it is possible.
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So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
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@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
Sep 16 at 17:37
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I have a swanky Viking oven that, when it decides to light and do some work, does exhaust heat to the outside via some interior fan. It is not the same fan as it has over the cooktop where you can see it sucking up smoke and cat hair. You can hear the interior fan go on about 5 min after the oven has been shut off.
So it is possible.
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So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
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@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
Sep 16 at 17:37
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I have a swanky Viking oven that, when it decides to light and do some work, does exhaust heat to the outside via some interior fan. It is not the same fan as it has over the cooktop where you can see it sucking up smoke and cat hair. You can hear the interior fan go on about 5 min after the oven has been shut off.
So it is possible.
answered Sep 15 at 20:58
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I have a swanky Viking oven that, when it decides to light and do some work, does exhaust heat to the outside via some interior fan. It is not the same fan as it has over the cooktop where you can see it sucking up smoke and cat hair. You can hear the interior fan go on about 5 min after the oven has been shut off.
So it is possible.
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So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
2
@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
Sep 16 at 17:37
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So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
2
@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
Sep 16 at 17:37
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So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
So there is a ventilation pipe that goes directly outside?
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 21:18
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
the outside of the oven, yes. Not the outside of the house unless the oven is outside the house.
– jwenting
Sep 16 at 4:59
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@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
Sep 16 at 17:37
@jwenting it's not inconceivable that there are ovens which are connected to the same pipes as an extraction hood. If that's the case, it's certainly possible and it seems sensible to have in hot climates where you don't want excess heat inside the house.
– JJJ
Sep 16 at 17:37
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I've never heard of an oven being vented to the outside. So, unless you have an exhaust fan that is vented to the outside, you're pretty much stuck with the heat.
Note, though, that the oven will gradually cool down after the energy source is cut off. The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate nearly as quickly into your house as long as you keep the oven door closed.
answered Sep 15 at 17:46
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The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
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While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
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"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
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@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
Sep 16 at 5:32
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I've never heard of an oven being vented to the outside. So, unless you have an exhaust fan that is vented to the outside, you're pretty much stuck with the heat.
Note, though, that the oven will gradually cool down after the energy source is cut off. The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate nearly as quickly into your house as long as you keep the oven door closed.
answered Sep 15 at 17:46
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The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
1
While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
4
"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
2
@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
Sep 16 at 5:32
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I've never heard of an oven being vented to the outside. So, unless you have an exhaust fan that is vented to the outside, you're pretty much stuck with the heat.
Note, though, that the oven will gradually cool down after the energy source is cut off. The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate nearly as quickly into your house as long as you keep the oven door closed.
answered Sep 15 at 17:46
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I've never heard of an oven being vented to the outside. So, unless you have an exhaust fan that is vented to the outside, you're pretty much stuck with the heat.
Note, though, that the oven will gradually cool down after the energy source is cut off. The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate nearly as quickly into your house as long as you keep the oven door closed.
answered Sep 15 at 17:46
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The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
1
While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
4
"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
2
@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
Sep 16 at 5:32
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show 5 more comments
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The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
1
While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
4
"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
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@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
Sep 16 at 5:32
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The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
The entire amount will eventually make it into the room, unless the back of the oven is against a very badly insulated outside wall. Heat has to go somewhere, it can't just vanish.
– Chris H
Sep 15 at 17:51
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
@ChrisH yeah exactly right.
– Behacad
Sep 15 at 19:49
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While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
While I agree with you guys, the heat cooling and gradually escaping has much less effect than just opening the door and letting the full heat go. Cooling does make a difference.
– Cindy
Sep 15 at 23:03
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"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
"The entire amount of residual heat will not dissipate into your house" sorry, but that's plain wrong.
– njzk2
Sep 16 at 3:17
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@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
Sep 16 at 5:32
@njzk2 we all know what they meant, so, since we're all being needlessly pedantic here: strictly speaking, they're right. uneven heat distribution asymptotically approaches equilibrium, but never reaches it. the residual heat will never completely dissipate into your house, as long as you keep the oven door closed (or otherwise). (note to OP: you can edit it to something along the lines of "will not dissipate nearly as quickly" to make us shut up)
– dn3s
Sep 16 at 5:32
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No ovens are designed to ventilate outside. I actually tried making mini oven with vent connected to window but it not only failed to contain heat but also heated my room anyways.
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No ovens are designed to ventilate outside. I actually tried making mini oven with vent connected to window but it not only failed to contain heat but also heated my room anyways.
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No ovens are designed to ventilate outside. I actually tried making mini oven with vent connected to window but it not only failed to contain heat but also heated my room anyways.
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No ovens are designed to ventilate outside. I actually tried making mini oven with vent connected to window but it not only failed to contain heat but also heated my room anyways.
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I like to turn the kitchen fan on and open the oven door to get it to cool down as quickly as possible after use.
– aris
Sep 15 at 17:53
Some hot air comes out of the front of my household oven, and if I am baking with steam then steam comes out too. There is an extractor over the oven and if I switch it on it sucks in the hot air/steam and vents it outside. Does that count?
– RedSonja
Sep 16 at 7:22
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You've already got the correct answer: oven heat comes into the house, eventually, always. Another posted usefully suggests running your hood vent, assuming it exhausts to outside and you can open a window nearby, but if it's hot out, you might wind up drawing more heat in from outside than the oven would dump into the room. FWIW, our household solution to this is a capable toaster oven (e.g. Breville) which is sufficient for 70-80% of our oven needs. In the summer, we just put it outside and cook/bake there. :)
– Peter Duniho
Sep 16 at 17:57
If you need AC largely for dehumidification, waste heat from the oven doesn't really hurt. It just allows you to set your thermostat higher without getting unbearably humid.
– R..
Sep 16 at 22:53
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If you vented the oven to the outside all your heat would be expelled and it wouldn't be much good for cooking....The whole idea of a modern kitchen oven is to have a box full of hot air to cook the food.
– Greg Nickoloff
Sep 18 at 18:19