Of course. Except that if it was a small room and a freezer full of frozen stuff, the room might actually cool down a bit at first as the latent heat could suck energy out of the air faster than the compressor was putting it in!
Which makes it an *even better* question than you suggest.
For years I've been playing with the idea of some sort of fanned vent to draw cold air out of my cellar into the living room. To do it properly would require me hacking into my nicely decorated chimney breast though.
JGH
Freezer with the door left open, would entrap a few more ;-)
Dead common, that. And damned irritating - it clogs up the intertubes with cruft.
Some very curious English used in that review for a piece of professionally written publicity material.
"The outer finish is of brushed steel and consists of rotary type of control. It has a toughened glass that fits the led well to the pot. The capacity of this model is 3.3 litres. The dimension of Tesco SC356 Brushed Steel Finish Slow Cooker goes as height of 215mm, width of
300mm and depth of 354mm. This appliance weighs about 4.2 kg and hence shifting and carrying this product is simply easy."Derek G
Yes, I had a look at one of those. It's a stoneware bowl sitting in a thin aluminium surround. I was quite surprised that the power consumption is
170W (and I measured that with a power meter) - for 8 hours that's about 10p, which isn't that cheap compared to a microwave. I'd have expected the energy input would be simply to bring the contents up to temperature and then almost nil to keep them there (after all you're cooking at 60C or whatever)Theo
You can turn it down to a lower setting once it's up to temperature. Or sooner if you don't mind waiting.
Just checked ours - Low 125W, High 200W, Warm 72W. If you fold up a teatowel so it only (mostly) covers the lid then once it's up to speed it'll cook fine on Warm.
It's still a lot more than I would like; much of the heat escapes through the uninsulated sides. Trouble is, there's no thermostat so insulating them (apart from needing something fire-resistant) would be rather hit and miss. I suppose I could add an adjustable thermostat - it's quite tempting.
When they first came out, lots of people gave themselves food poisoning by thinking they could put the food in cold and have the thing heat it up. Well it did heat it up, but just to the ideal bacteria growing temperature for about 10 hours...
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