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How hot do the oven doors get on a blue star 60' range
Comments (3)I'm glad I found this post. I am also concerned with the amount of heat on the exterior sides of my 30" BS oven so much so that last night we decided to purchase an infrared thermometer and hit the sides with it - the temperature ranged from 145degrees to 240degrees- I think that is wayyy too hot. One side of my range will be exposed and the other next to a cupboard. Since my granite is not on yet, we removed the adjacent cabinet and the wood was also extremely hot- wondering if this is going to ruin our custom drawer fronts since they are adjacent to the range. Any info will help....See MoreHow can I get hot water faster on a electric hot water tank
Comments (3)To where are you targeting the delivery of it? If to a dishwasher or washing machine, a simple method is to run a faucet near the machine until the flow is hot ... such as at the kitchen sink. Otherwise, pretty much the only way is via a recirculation pump on a flow loop from the water heater across all the taps. Some plumbing systems are constructed with a dedicated recirculation loop. There are retrofit pumps that are installed at the furthest usage point from the heater, feeding water from the hot line into the cold to create a flow loop ... usually operated on a timer or on-demand a few mins before hot water is needed. One such product is the Metlund D'MAND System. There are others....See MoreHIIP054U How Hot do Hobs Get?
Comments (10)I routinely (always) use silicone rubber pads under my pots and pans. And I always start eggs boiling under boost and use boost for various other temporary heating tasks, such as bringing a large pot for spaghetti to boiling. Boost is not the issue. Pan temperature is the issue. All power transferred by the hob coil goes to the pan and not to the silicone or the Ceram glass cooktop. Pans get hot and transfer heat by conduction back to the silicone pad or pads. Some conduction from the pad to the glass occurs, some convective heating of the air under the pan occurs, and some radiation from the pan to the glass occurs, all of these modestly raising the temperature of the glass. So long as no cooking is performed at temperatures higher than threshold smoking of peanut oil (450F), the silicone pads (if cut from the high temperature rated silicone) will not be affected. It is when a pan is accidentally heated without water or sufficient food for too long at a high power level that the pan base passes the silicone damage temperature threshold and the pads start deteriorating. (So too would any food in the pan start deteriorating.) In such a case one has to replace the pads by cutting out new pads from the silicone sheet that one is using for a source. Now, there are a few underlying details that should be noted. Most high temperature silicone rubber has historically been colored red oxide. Other colors of high temperature silicone can now be found however. (See for example the MSC catalog at mscdirect.com.) I am unaware of any clear silicone that is rated at the 450F and above range. In the image above, a clear reinforced silicone is evident. It may only be rated for baking cookies. I await any data the poster has on this particular mat. In any case, I favor a different way of supporting the pans with silicone pads. If three or four small pads cut from a larger sheet are used (scaled to pan size), the pan has less thermal contact with the glass underneath and the glass temperature does not rise anywhere near the temperature of the pan. The hob glass is only uncomfortably hot under my egg pan after two minutes of boost to boiling and 10 minutes of half-power controlled boiling. I haven't tested the glass temperature under a grilling pan. I would expect some potential for burns, but nothing like a radiant coil surface would reach. Bottom line: Cook within the safe cooking temperatures of food and the silicone rubber pads supporting the pan will not char or deteriorate. Walk away when you shouldn't on a pan heating up at too high a rate and you will start damaging the silicone. In my post disaster investigation experience, if a pan gets too hot for the silicone, by the time the silicone has given up the ghost the hob has shut down due to pan radiant heat heating the thermal sensor at the center of the hob coil. Failed silicone rubber will have darkened, thinned, and appear limp relative to its initial flexibility. I've never had a silicone rubber "goo" problem with any family cooking mistake. kas...See Moremy mantle gets very hot when fireplace is on, how do i shield this?
Comments (13)We have the same problem, yet the heat has never created a problem in the 10 years we have lived in our home. :) It's a ventless gas fireplace. We hang Christmas stockings every year. There is a small shield on our unit (see photo below), but it really doesn't help with the heat rising. The underside of mantle gets very hot! And while we do not have a TV above, there does not appear to be any overly high heat above the mantle. No obvious problems with the painting that we can see. Try putting a suction cup thermometer in the middle of your TV to gage the temperature. Thermometer Our problem is with the logs "off gassing" when we run it. Yes, we have have the gas company, several gas and fireplace techs, etc. our here, and they all say everything is fine and the off-gassing is normal. Our problem appears to be that the ceilings are only 9' high in our space and the off gassing has no place to escape. We cannot change to vented because of building codes and having windows within a certain distance from the vent. We have changed log size. Went from 36" to 30", I think. And have even turned down the gas intensity (which means that flames are lower.) None of this has helped the smell. It helps to open the french doors, but when it is cold all the heat in the house goes out. So we rarely use the fireplace. We are seriously thinking of putting in an electric set of logs this year. After 10 years, I am ready to have some sort of fire look without the smell. Our HVAC man is looking into one other option before we go ahead with electric. Anyway, I was getting off subject. Good luck! Black shield, right below the granite slab, slopes out and down about 6". Our mantel is high and about 12" deep. Gets hot, and before we changed the log size, some soot would gather underneath. Sold the previous logs, with no problem, on CL....See Morerob333 (zone 7b)
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