[Stoves] News: Pico-hydro for electric cooking (Financial Times)

[Nikhil Desai]

Andrew:

I have spent some nights in an apartment with only stove heating. Not even
a high mass stove, just a gas stove with water pots on top. Whatever heat
came in the bedroom 10 feet away was good enough with outside temperatures
of -10 C.

"The oil fired AGA makes the kitchen too hot when cooking in spring summer
and autumn and lacks power to heat the rest of the house in winter."

One of the reasons some Indian cooks prefer an electric induction stove is
that it gives out much less heat than the gas stove with its flames.

Nikhil

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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:37 AM, Andrew Heggie <aj.heggie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 April 2017 at 06:18, Nikhil Desai <ndesai at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Our grandparents had an Aga stove - very practically designed to heat the
> > room, heat the stove and heat the water... sometimes the stove didn't
> heat
> > well, so to make custard would take an hour... but somehow, the home
> baked
> > bread - soda bread was always delicious.
>
> I guess there is a lesson here for stoves in that the AGA is a high
> mass range that doesn't do anything very well.
>
> I do have recent experience of an oil fired AGA, which is a bit of a
> status  symbol in middle class kitchens in UK, The oil flame is via a
> wick which needs very clean kerosene as it clogs up and requires
> frequent maintenance, the power is low but it runs constantly. Just
> above the flame is a very heavy cast Iron hob which has fins at the
> bottom, it takes hours to heat up and there is an insulated hinged lid
> above it to retain the heat when not in use.
>
> As it also heats water the water circuit steals heat from the hob and the
> oven.
>
> I can understand a high mass device being necessary in house heating
> where  fueling is intermittent but see no sense in it where the fuel
> is flowable, like gas or oil.
>
> The oil fired AGA makes the kitchen too hot when cooking in spring
> summer and autumn and lacks power to heat the rest of the house in
> winter.
>
> Andrew
>
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