Propane Oven Gas Consumption?

[John_P]

How many gallons of propane per year would be consumed by a high quality, full size, propane oven that is used to bake two loaves of bread every day? Not the burner top, just the oven.

I would appreciate hearing about any experience you have regarding oven gas consumption. I am trying to figure out how much propane I would need to store.

[Shamrock1121]

Contact your propane company. *They should be able to help you with that information...

I have another alternative oven suggestion. *I have a Sharp Convection/Microwave (wall-mounted over the stove with a fan/air filter) and I can bake 2 loaves of bread in 25 minutes - NO PREHEATING (one loaf in 20 minutes). *I use it when I don't have other baking to do in my regular oven. *Keeps the energy use to a minimum and the heat out of the kitchen. *

In the warmer months I bake in my Solar Ovens. *REALLY keeps the heat out of the kitchen. * ;)

Modified to add... If you are using a hearth kit in your oven and you have prolonged preheating (say up to one hour), you'll need to also figure preheating time as well as baking time for the type/s of bread you bake.

-Karen

[flatwater]

John P
how are you storing your propane now , in what size tanks?
Flatwater

[wolfmoon]

Karen tell us about your solar oven...is there a thread somewhere on this? Thanks.

[PastTense]

Does your oven say how many BTU it uses? One reference suggested about 25,000 BTU an hour. A gallon of propane contains 91,600 BTU. so it would run such an oven for a little under four hours. So how many hours would you be running the oven for? Say you were running it a half hour a day for 365 days a year. That looks like about 50 gallons a year. But look at the stove owner's manual and see if you can find a number for BTU and start calculating exactly how many hours you will be baking and you can get a much better number.

[MichaelK]

John, you can figure this out two ways. The engineering way, and the practical way. PT is giving you the engineering way. That will work, assuming the numbers you inputed are correct.

The second way is to simply ask a neighbor that has to fill their propane tank each season what number was actually filled. In my area, the number will be about 200-250 gallons.

That's a more realistic way of doing it, unless you are willing to guarranty you will never, ever want to take a hot shower, or burn off the morning chill, or make a single cup of coffee with your dedicated oven propane.