Elec use has suddenly shot up, help!

1carminestocky

It's probably more a capon, I suppose (we always have a lot of family round for Sunday lunch). Plus, we always find the cooking instructions on meat products tend to underplay the length of time required to cook the thing properly. Even at 2 hours cooking time, it's still (to me) a wholly unacceptable 72p!

PS Why wouldn't I try and assimilate the 2 tier pricing into my 'average' figure? Maybe you have misunderstood me - the 12p/kw is NOT the first tier figure, merely an attempt to ascertain the TRUE cost per kw, based on the 2 tier pricing. To just use the 2nd tier (i.e. lower) figure would be creating a more 'rosy' tint to leccy charges, not something I would recommend if trying to cut down useage.

espresso

1carminestocky wrote: »

It's probably more a capon, I suppose (we always have a lot of family round for Sunday lunch). Plus, we always find the cooking instructions on meat products tend to underplay the length of time required to cook the thing properly. Even at 2 hours cooking time, it's still (to me) a wholly unacceptable 72p!

But it would not actually cost that much! I question the accuracy of this device that you "are already obsessed with" and therefore it's real usefulness!

1carminestocky

espresso wrote: »

But it would not actually cost that much! I question the accuracy of this device that you "are already obsessed with" and therefore it's real usefulness!

Fair enough, each to their own. It's all about personal choice, I suppose. I think the £35 outlay will be recouped very quickly....and after that the savings will continue. If that IS the case, then by any means of appraisal, it's a REALLY USEFUL gadget...isn't it? Time will tell, but I really don't think it's relevant to this thread to carry on our 'discussion'.

PS Talking of saving money, if I had delayed my purchase till today, I could have had 2 of the blighters for £40 :mad:

espresso

1carminestocky wrote: »

PS Talking of saving money, if I had delayed my purchase till today, I could have had 2 of the blighters for £40 :mad:

Personally I would not even pay £20 for one of these gimmicky monitors. I bought a plug in energy monitor for £4.99 a few year back. Much more useful than these whole house gadgets. Your fridge/freezer etc. etc. in fact anything else in use at the time would have influenced the displayed cost of cooking your capon!

:beer:

1carminestocky

Yawn yawn. As you seem to be such an expert in the field, any chance of instructing me on how I can use my recently-purchased Maplin energy useage monitor to give me a reading on my electric oven. Thanks in advance...:rolleyes:

mikereauk

Hi, thanks for all your replies, very much appreciated and some interesting chicken facts too! We turned everything off as suggested and the meter stopped so it appears to be working ok. We did an experiment and our usage over the last 24 hours has been 5 units so we will go back to the elec company on Monday morning and see where we stand. Cheers all, Mike

espresso

1carminestocky wrote: »

Yawn yawn. As you seem to be such an expert in the field, any chance of instructing me on how I can use my recently-purchased Maplin energy useage monitor to give me a reading on my electric oven. Thanks in advance...:rolleyes:

It's quite easy actually, although I'm quite sure that it's not actually a serious question that you are asking.

All that you would have to do is to disconnect the oven from it's normal outlet supply box and fit a 13A plug to the cable (some ovens are actually wired to a 13A socket). I am not aware of any individual part of any normal domestic electric oven that consumes more than 13A, so you could then cook your capon and find out the true cost using a plug-in type energy monitor, and find that it was not really 90p!

Enjoy your Sunday roast, I know that I will.

:eek:

Stompa

espresso wrote: »

But it would not actually cost that much! I question the accuracy of this device that you "are already obsessed with" and therefore it's real usefulness!

Indeed, I would imagine an oven is most likely rated at around 3kW, but because of the thermostat won't be 'on' all of the time, so the average consumption should be a fair bit less.

amcluesent

This table of electrical consumption, reckons an electric oven is 1.56kWh per use, annual cost £21.08

1carminestocky

espresso wrote: »

It's quite easy actually, although I'm quite sure that it's not actually a serious question that you are asking.

All that you would have to do is to disconnect the oven from it's normal outlet supply box and fit a 13A plug to the cable (some ovens are actually wired to a 13A socket). I am not aware of any individual part of any normal domestic electric oven that consumes more than 13A, so you could then cook your capon and find out the true cost using a plug-in type energy monitor, and find that it was not really 90p!

Enjoy your Sunday roast, I know that I will.

:eek:

You have genuinely disappointed me. Unlike you I don't put myself forward as any kind of expert but even I know there's a far easier solution that doesn't involve such 'involved' DIY with potentially dangerous consequences. Congratulations are in order! You are the very first (and hopefully the last) poster to be entered on my ignore list. I've always viewed an espresso as all froth and no substance. Thanks for re-inforcing my view.

PS I certainly will enjoy my Sunday roast, and I won't be eating it alone. :rolleyes: