A century ago, my Great Grandmother had a 'summer kitchen' in the backyard where she would do the cooking in summer and not heat up the house. Now that we no longer build these, I'm proposing that large household appliances be equipped with their own vent systems and kitchens be designed to accommodate them.

I know that in winter, it's nice to stand bare-foot in front of my refrigerator and feel the warm air come out from underneath it, or to lean on the oven with cookies in it, but in summer, these just make our kitchen unbearable. We cook less in summer because of it.

If appliances were designed to install a ducting system--probably based on current dryer ducting-- to remove this heat in summer--it would be great. I would make it switchable (like my current dryer duct is) to allow the heat in winter, but to blow it outside in summer.

I'll attach it to the refrigerator, the oven, the dishwasher, the microwave, maybe even the toaster. The range-hood already has a vent, but it doesn't strictly vent hot-air--it vents air from the kitchen that's been cooled, too.

I know that people have submitted the converse of this idea, a vent to provide free refrigeration in winter--that could be combined in this system, too.

Possibly this vent would be thermostatically controlled, to assure it only vents actual hot-air.

I didn't see this idea out there, though I don't really think it's 'new.'

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