Every July, my kitchen transforms into the warmest room in the house by early evening, right as I am attempting to finish dinner. This year, after a particularly humid night of roasting vegetables, I wondered if a simple habit might help: leaving the oven door cracked open for ten minutes after baking. I tested this for fourteen consecutive days to see if it would effectively lower the room temperature or simply redistribute the heat in a way that felt… Continue Reading ⬇️
Does Cracking Your Oven Door Actually Cool Your Kitchen? A Two-Week Experiment
