On 10:16 21 Sep 2009, Toby wrote:


"Pete Brown" wrote in message
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Approx how much gas gets used to heat up a ordinary gas cooker's
oven? Approximately how much does it cost?

I need to run my oven for about 10 minutes to heat it up to Regulo
6. But I can't get a reading of gas used because my meter is so
cronky.


Surely your meter can tell you this information, otherwise how are
they going to bill you if it is not taking an accurate reading?

As the oven is not going to use a lot of gas to heat it up, the main
numbers probably won't go up, but the part units should...
When you are using gas, does a dial turn round?

If so, turn off any other gas appliances and count the number of
turns in, say, a minute, then you know how much gas it is using per
minute, then times this by the amount of time it takes to het up
(assuming the oven does not modulate down as it gets near the set
point!) then look at your last bill to see the calculation used, and
the units the meter is in (Ft or m3) and work it out.

Different ovens of different sizes and amount of insulation levels
are going to be different.


I originally tried what you suggested but my gas meter doesn't seem
sensitive enough to give an actual measurement for 10 minutes of gas.
That's why I posted. Here's a pic of the meter:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=28vzrkp&s=4

The dial on the right goes round about once for 10 minutes of gas to heat
up the oven. However the digits don't advance.

I have no idea how to interpret the meter's reading. I think the pic
above shows "9612.90" cubic feet. Is that right? Maybe the dial has to
rotate 100 times to move this to "9613.00".