Ran the oven through its 3 hour self-cleaning cycle today. The heat it gave off kept the house warm and the furnace from kicking on for like 6 hours. My gas bill appreciates that.
Ran the oven through its 3 hour self-cleaning cycle today. The heat it gave off kept the house warm and the furnace from kicking on for like 6 hours. My gas bill appreciates that.
All of them lol. Somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 watts and it’s basically running full-on the whole 3-hour cycle.
Which works out to 6-15 kWh. That’s less than $1 (30 cents at the low end) worth of electricity off-peak (no need to run self clean during peak hours!) where I live.
The real issue with self clean is the thermal stress it puts on the oven’s electronic control board. My oven can no longer regulate its temperature since it put up an error message after the last self-clean I did. Now if I try to preheat it even to a low temperature it just runs full out until it overheats and shuts down.