It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Refrigerators use electricity to move heat from inside the box to outside the box.

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• Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Electric to heat has really good energy conversion efficiency.

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• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Just heard the quote, ‘Toasters weren’t invented to make toast, they were invented to sell electricity.’

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• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you really think about it. All any appliance does is turn energy into heat.

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  • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Saying that all appliances turn energy to heat is true, but saying that all appliances do is turn energy in to heat is not. While heat is still a byproduct, lots of appliances make things move as well.

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    • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For heat pumps, the thing they’re moving is heat.

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    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And what is that movent? Eventually decays into heat.

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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why stop at appliances? By that logic, humans are nothing more than self-propelled heaters.

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    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are we not?

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was a paper floating around about a decade ago. Basically it was asserting that biological life is the natural outcome of entropy itself. Bc living beings are especially good at increasing entropy over time. Not sure if it was credible but a fun idea nontheless

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    False. My water filter pitcher does not turn energy into heat.

    (Ok, fine, it uses gravity to move the water through a filter, which technically converts some of the potential energy of the water into heat through friction, but that’s not something the pitcher does, that’s something the earth does that the pitcher uses to its advantage.)

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not an appliance, that’s a tool.

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• sunbunman@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait till OP finds out that most of cooking is putting heat into food.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And taking water out!

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or sometimes putting it in

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• pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where I live everything is electric for the vast majority of people. The norm here is to have electric stoves and electric water heaters. Even heating houses is mainly done through electricity.

  I was so surprised to learn as a teen that this is not the norm everywhere, and that some people are actually still lighting fires in their houses to cook food.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I concluded a while back that if you make some sort of miracle that handles both heating stuff and water stuff you can replace a ridiculous amount of appliances. Everything from a stove to a car wash.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like an automotive carpet shampooer?

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That too

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• Greddan@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And that most of these appliances are pretty much irrelevant in the modern world, just staying around because people think they need them. A convection oven with an induction stove on top replaces microwave, kettle, toaster etc.

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