Um, yeah... so it's 90+ outside, high humidity, I have no air conditioning and the LAST thing I want to do is to fire up the oven. I am roasting in an inferno HERE!!! Anyone else feel my pain???

OMG I feel it!!!! How do the people down south do it?????? My cakes are so saggy!!!!!!!! LOL. I have already put in 3 calls to the DH to say it's time!!!!!! For the AC in the kitchen!

I had that this weekend. I was making a wedding cake for a co-worker of my hubby's. It was 85 or more, raining like crazy and we only have a window unit. Everytime I would take the cake out of the fridge to smooth the BC...it seemed as if it were melting. I told my hubby when I finally finished that "I have never been so dissappointed in a cake." When I delivered it Monday, the couple said it was beautiful. I will post a pic later today (when hubby gets it off the camera for me. I am not that computer literate LOL).

Spottydog wrote

We have air conditioning. Central air and heat is standard on houses now. Until I got on this board, I thought that everyone in the country had central heat and air (AC). I don't see how people with no AC or just window units make it.


Sarahssweets 2006 - you are more than welcome to come to Alabama anytime you want and I'll let you bake to your heart's desire

HAHAHAHA. Thanks yh9080!!! We can be roomies!!! Yeah, some of us Yanks in NY don't have central air. The newer homes usually do but my boyfriend's house has a boiler for heat thus, no air ducts through the house. He has talked about central air but it would be expensive because they would need to run those ducts all over the house so for now, sigh, I bake. It's been unusually hot yesturday and today, over 90. Come tomorrow and the rest of the week... 70s. YIPPIE!

Yep, feeling your pain....and my hot water tank isn't working, so not hot water either to take a shower and cool off! Hopefully the landlord will be over soon to look at it. Mom was supposed to be coming down to help me bake today, but I just can't do it today. Refuse to bake without taking a shower first, ick!

OYG! I've lived in TX all my life and thought it was standard in everyone's home across the country to have central air installed. This is interesting. How do people survive without it?

No AC here! Worst decision we ever made when DH was building this house. He's too cheap! And he works outside, so I can't even tell him, "Well, you're not here all day!"

One of these days!

I'm in NC, and it stays hot from about April to October here. Heck, last winter, we actually had to run the AC a few days, so the dog and cats didn't perish of heat.

But basically, AC is being required on all new homes in this area, as far as I know. Who the heck would buy one without it, anyhow?? It just gets too hot and humid around here, and there are numerous heat-related deaths and injuries during the hot season.

I HAVE AC and there are days when I can't stand to fire up the oven... just too humid, and the AC can't keep up.

I have central ac & when I'm doing a cake I have a fan that I use in the kitchen. Bless all of the bakers who do not have A/C.

I lived in Upstate NY (5yrs)& Central TX(5yrs) and I had central air & heat in both places I move back to Maine and I thought I wouldn't need it WRONG!! The humidity is the killer if it wasn't for that I would be ok - Good thing I live on the water or I'd be in melt down mode!!

I live in Southern Ontario, 2 hours from Toronto. I couldn't imagine not having air. I would die, it gets so hot and humid here. It's probably about 30 degrees Celcius here then the humidity on top of that, which could make it well over 40C. I would worry about my dog all day, he would melt and probably die of heat in the house....our main floor once got up to 35 degrees Celcius one day when we forgot to turn the air on.

I feel the pain! No AC. I have begged for central air, hubby says its not that hot and won't consider it. I said consider this, when it is hot and humid....best he heading to town for your supper because I will not cook in this weather. My legs and feet swell 2x's their size in this weather. I don't handle either extreme very well.

feelin' the pain here too.... no central air here either... we have two little window units, one upstairs in the girls room and one in the living room. our kitchen gets all the hot sun from about 1:00 till it goes down. toasty toasty toasty!!!! glad that things will be cooling off this weekend.. i have one cake to do, but then next weekend i have three, so hopefully the weather will co-operate!

MichelleM77 and heliieOh - whereabouts in OH are you sweatin' it out?

I'm up here in Peninsula. It's 82 in my house with high humidity....and I feel soooo gross! It usually gets even hotter about 5pm when the sun starts to go down and beats in the front windows. I can't wait...... I'm supposed to be working, but I'm falling asleep at my desk. ZZZzzzzzzzzz

I live in the county, outside Lancaster...which is about 30 miles SW of Columbus.

I know exactly where ya are! My sister lives in Sugar Grove! Blink and you miss it.

We have central a/c and its such a blessing...alot of houses around here only have window units because they are older and have not yet been remodeled. (NE Philly burbs). Our upstairs gets really hot though and just today we got a tiny window unit just to help us sleep better.

If I had no a/c I'd definitely get a couple of window units, one for my kitchen and one for whatever room was next to it...probably one for the bedroom too. I don't know how some of you do it.

it's 100 and climbing. Window units and try not to run them unless it is humid. We spend alot of time in places with air conditioning like the library or 1.00 show. Most of the time between 10:00 and sun down we jump in the pool. Lots of sandwiches and bar b que. Bake in the wee hours of the morning one day, ice next day. TOO HOT to do on same day. The nights are nice here in the desert so we sleep outside in the tent. Really romantic cause without the rain fly we can see the stars. Best part is the privacy!! LOL we don't suffer, have tv,bed and fans in there.

I live in Upper Michigan right on the lake. Some days even with the lake breeze (which can be really cold sometimes) it's still blazing hot. We do have a window unit and that helps, but it's the dang humidity. Good golly miss molly.

Hi checking in from gales ferry ct, if you have heard of foxwoods casino, i am less then five miles, it is stinking hot. we do not have ac, my husband loves the hot weather, so he is in his glory, please send help !!!!! I need ac badley. lol, it is only for a few months, i belive it will get better. ( in September)

We actually DO have window units, 2 but (surprise surprise) they haven't been put in yet. Figures, hottest days all year and they are not in. My bf says he will put them in this weekend but then it's supposed to get back down in the 70s but eh, summer's still early, I am sure they will get some use.

But I have lived in Western NY all 25 years of my life and we have NEVER had central air. I guess you just grin and bear it... Like, I was sweating this morning at 8am when it was already 85 degrees. Weird weather up here... can be in the negatives in the winter then damn near 100 in the summer. Talk about extremes. Haha.

So ladies, have fun baking in your nice icy-cool houses. I will do it like they did in the olden days... way before your fancy conditioned air!

oh i'm sorry to everyone who toughs it out.. I'm not a tough it out kind of girl. I used to work every summer at a girl scout camp, no air, no beds, tents on a wooden platform a cot with mosquito netting. I loved it then, but now i'm old and fat.. ha ha and I have one thing I will say fat girls and heat just don't mix! I told my friend the other day that I have areas that sweat that most girls just don't even have! HA!!
anyway I have central air, big old house.. the upstairs stays hot so we have window units.. but you're all welcome to come on over and bake my oven is not going the next few days, don't have a cake till friday. I am so bad, that on the days I have to put the oven on all day for a cake, I turn the a/c down lower then I usually have it, that way the house stays comfy and the poor A/C doesn't have to work as hard to catch up once the oven is on. You're all welcome here in Northwest Illinois
Jen

I live in Southern Manitoba (Canada) and our weather is pretty much how you described it Sarahsweets2006. Our house was built in the 50s, way before C/A. I have a window unit in the kitchen for those hot humid days, thankfully its a little cool for the next couple of days, good thing b/c I have a wedding cake on Sat.

well let me tell ya lol. I'm in northern idaho yep northern idaho; mobile home (older model) with ac in the living room; old swam cooler down the hall the week i did the grad cake and the reaper cake it was 98 out (luckily i baked on a cooler day and froze all the cakes) but it was still so blasted warm in the house even with the fan directly on the cakes as i was working the icing was STill melting ON the cakes. and the cakes had been frozen/refridgerated. what should have taken me only about four hours total for both cakes took me all day for the most general decorating and had to continue the next morning for trimwork etc. every so often i was having to throw the cakes back in the freezer to chill them bakc down- and they were in there longer then they were OUT lol. yup it gets that hot here.

I live in an area where its called a "banana belt" weather wise and i'm less then a football fields distance from the river. our growing season starts earlier here and extends longer then most even a few hours distance away.