Yes this is exactly my point, I don’t cook ~12 hours a day every day. Usually less than 1 and even use the oven less often, most days not at all

Right. Although actually cooling is less energy-intensive—removing 3000 watts of heat only costs about 1000 watts of electricity.

	▲	conductr 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hrm. You probably know better than me, but I always assumed that since my cooling cost in Summer is 5x the cost of my heating cost in winter (with similar differentials, eg. heat+30 degrees, cool-30 degrees) that it was a less efficient process. The napkin math still doesn't make since if I have to increase the cooling of house ~half the day (would be more since summer has longer days.) Other considerations would be extra wear on the HVAC equipment and just the comfort impact of increased fluctuations.