Heating kitchen with oven

fred7777

ViolaLass wrote: »

Even with the door open? (see OP)

Of course.

The oven doesn't have any mechanism for pumping the hot air out into the room, it does have a substantial mass of metal acting as a heatsink which will the heat created and keep it in the oven structure.

You don't say what type of heater it is but it's probably either a convector or fan heater. Both are designed to fill a room with warm air. The oven is designed to fill itself with very hot air not a room, even with the door open.

As an experiment try heating the room with either for 5 or 10 minutes and see which one makes the room warmer, I bet it will be the heater and bear in mind that the oven will be costing more.

Then switch off the heat leave for 10 minutes and see which is hotter the oven or the heater. My guess is the oven will be hotter, meaning heat (which you have paid for) has been stored in the oven structure which it is still releasing keeping the room warm after you have left and don't need it.

ViolaLass

moneysavingideas wrote: »

I personally would prefer to use the heater rather than the oven only because the heater is probably positioned in a part of the room that is closer to where you sit down to eat breakfast, watch TV or relax. Whereas the oven is in the kitchen which will predominately heat that room and I don;t tend to spend that much time in the kitchen relaxing :-)

OK, look, we may be unorthodox according to some of you but we're not idiots! We heat the kitchen because it's the smallest room (and therefore easiest to heat) and we make and eat our breakfast in it. There is no separate sitting down or watching TV space in that room and if we weren't in it, we wouldn't heat it.