Cost of gas to heat upon a kitchen oven?

The text below the digits on the meter says that it's 0.071 ft^3 per revolution which makes it 14.08 revolutions per ft^3 so that's about 140 revolutions for one red digit.

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Mike Clarke
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The 0.071 ft3/rev could be a bit misleading but it does not refer to the test dial but to the internal volume of the measuring device.

This information is required to determine the amount of gas required to pass when purging the gas installation.

The test dial does in fact show one cubic foot of gas passing for each complete revolution.

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Heliotrope Smith

Corgi? Of course the cooker doesn't get serviced. :-)

Service manual? The cooker was in the house before I moved in.

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PeteBrown

These assumptions are wrong.

A standard sized electric oven will be under 3kW (2.4kW is common), although some large ones are higher.

Electric ovens are well insulated nowadays, but gas ovens can't be, because there has to be a flow of gas and air in, and combustion products out.

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Andrew Gabriel

fan blown ovens also remove a lot of hot air and bring in cooler, so as to get even heating and dry the interior somewhat.

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The Natural Philosopher

Not electric ones. They circulate the air inside the oven with a very small vent to allow pressure equalisation.

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dennis

A vent is provided elsewhere to let steam out, the bleed by the fan is to cool the fan and bearing I think.

AJH

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andrew

Great info. Thanks mate. Assuming you're right (you probably are) it's amazing to see how much other posts got it wrong. :-(

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Pete Brown

Not on the new one I just fitted. The steam comes out when you open the door though.

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dennis

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