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It doesn't take half an hour to pre heat, it doesn't heat up the whole house, and I'm not sending my power bill through the roof every time I want to make a meal for one person lol
Lucky you! I've never in my life used an oven that took less than 15 minutes to pre heat at the bare minimum
You need to close the door
How do you know it's hot enough otherwise?? Checkmate
Is it gas? Getting an electric oven to 450 usually takes 15 minutes.
I thought you guys had 240v circuits precisely for this kind of load? On a decent 30a 230v circuit (they generally don't use anywhere near 30a though) here in Europe it takes considerably less than that. I'd say mine takes 5-8mins for 230c (which is around 450f) and it has a rated power of 3500w.
My Beko oven takes about 25 minutes to preheat to 450. Yes, its 240 volts.
I guess it likely comes down to power rating, then. Also, with our old oven it used to take around 2x the time the current one does. That was just because the seal on the door was old and worn.
Most of our ovens aren't hooked up to 240v
Most electric ovens are. 220-240v anyway.
AFAIK almost any appliance labelled/presumed to be 220V in the US is actually 240V unless it was made before the 50s, because we aren't allowed to have nice things (like accuracy)
Yes. The USA switched our mains voltage from 110/220 to 120/240 about 50 years. There is a tolerance built in (10%) so that if a circuit is actually running at 100 or 220 then its within specs. A 120v circuit can run anywhere from 108 volts to 132 volts and be within spec. Its a pet peeve of mine when people say 110/220.
Its an or not an and.
I've never seen an electric oven that wasn't 240 volts.
North American ovens run on 240v, they probably just need to replace the heating element
But my EU oven runs on 380V-16A three-phase, because we in the Netherlands and Germany are special snowflakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perilex
That's awesome. You could probably run a proper kiln in place of your oven if you felt like it.
My Finnish oven runs on 380V too, although it'd hard-wired insted of a weird plug.
Mines 5 phase. My Dad got because he works at oven.
It's possible he's running it at 120v if the electrician did a bad job in the kitchen. 400v ovens are fairly common where I live and can run on 240v in a pinch (even if it's not recommended).
Not that I know such things, but I think 120V wouldn't even fully heat up an oven.
Ah Yeah maybe, Canadian but North America as a whole is the same standard of 240v for ovens. It could also be I've only used lower end ovens lol.
That's probably true. Our electric kettles heat up much slower too for the same reason.
The only large appliances that aren't running 220-240v in the US are the refrigerator and dishwasher .Ovens, washing machines, tumble dryers, furnaces, and water heaters are all on 240 volts.
In Europe, at least my oven is hooked up to 3 phase 400V. That's more than the 240 max you get in the US.
Serious question, with that much power do you even pre-heat the oven? At that much power, I imagine you can just put the food in and turn it on.
450F takes my older electric oven less than five minutes, jeeeeez
My oven won't go higher than 275.
OP is talking about Fahrenheit, but didn't say so for whatever reason. Most ovens I've seen also max out around 275 Celcius.
That's not even an oven, that's like... a warm box
275° is enough to 3D print most plastics.
Me omw to eat my 3d printed chicken
I thought that was the case with my gas oven, until I had a timer running one day and realized it was actually more like 10 minutes to get to 450.
Just tested my air frier and it's takes about 2 minutes, but obviously, it's way more energy efficient. Plus easier clean up. I can just throw a bunch of fries and chicken strips in there and it's good to go. Whereas with an oven I'd probably need to buy a special rack or something so all the oils don't stick to the bottom of the fries. Plus heating up all that empty space!