The light in the oven...
2004-12-24 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbear(From a comment I made in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telynor's LJ, where she noted that the light in her new oven stayed on as long as the oven was lit, and added "My mom always told me that if you left the light on in the oven, food got dried out. Was she just trying to save money on appliance bulbs?")
As you probably know, the devices commonly called "light bulbs" are actually dark-suckers -- they suck the dark out of a place so that light can displace it. (When they get all full of dark they stop sucking and you have to replace them.) Having a dark-sucker in an oven is a good thing because it keeps the food from getting too dark on the outside. The ones they put in ovens these days are self-cleaning, so as long as you don't leave the oven on too long at any one time, you don't have to worry about them filling up too quickly. (If you leave the oven on too long the food starts getting dark faster than the bulb can suck, and then you may have a serious problem.)
telynor's LJ, where she noted that the light in her new oven stayed on as long as the oven was lit, and added "My mom always told me that if you left the light on in the oven, food got dried out. Was she just trying to save money on appliance bulbs?")As you probably know, the devices commonly called "light bulbs" are actually dark-suckers -- they suck the dark out of a place so that light can displace it. (When they get all full of dark they stop sucking and you have to replace them.) Having a dark-sucker in an oven is a good thing because it keeps the food from getting too dark on the outside. The ones they put in ovens these days are self-cleaning, so as long as you don't leave the oven on too long at any one time, you don't have to worry about them filling up too quickly. (If you leave the oven on too long the food starts getting dark faster than the bulb can suck, and then you may have a serious problem.)
