# Oven burning out light bulbs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941 "2012-04-16T12:00:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941/1 "2012-04-16T12:00:24Z")

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Is there anything about an oven that could cause it to suddenly be chewing through light bulbs? Or has the quality of light bulbs just dropped precipitously?

It’s a GE electric oven from 1995, goes for years on a light bulb then suddenly burns out two new ones in two months.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941/2 "2012-04-16T12:22:44Z")

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Why are you, of all people, using an electric oven? But seriously, did the new bulbs that burned out come from the same package? I’m guessing it could just be a matter of getting hold of a bad package of bulbs.

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941/3 "2012-04-16T12:40:50Z")

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Gas cooktop, electric ovens. Wouldn’t have it any other way. 🙂

Now that you mention it, the last two bulbs did come from the same package. I’ll try again.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941/4 "2012-04-16T12:51:20Z")

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Now that you mention it, you are probably right that the combination of gas range + electric oven is the best combination. Of couirse few houses are both plumbed for a gas range and wired with 220V for the electric oven.

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**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941/5 "2012-04-16T14:16:48Z")

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Are you using the special “appliance” light bulbs, which are specifically designed to withstand the heat of an oven, or just putting in a standard light bulb? That could make a big difference.

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oven-burning-out-light-bulbs/618941/6 "2012-04-16T14:27:43Z")

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use a GE appliance bulb, it is a GE oven after all. they do have good bulbs.