Bringing down my gas and leccy bill challenge (start August 2008)

1carminestocky

If you are looking to save on cooking costs, I would recommend the Remoska from Lakeland. OK, not exactly cheap :eek: but we've had it several weeks now and haven't used our leccy double oven once. It's definitely made a significant difference to our consumption figures.

Curley

Lily-Lu,

You need to put the actuall meter readings in, not the number of units you've used.

i.e if your meter reading last week was 4052, and you've used 10 units this week, then you need to enter your new reading of 4062.

Hope that makes sense, or I may have totally missed the point.

Lily-Lu

Curley wrote: »

Lily-Lu,

You need to put the actuall meter readings in, not the number of units you've used.

i.e if your meter reading last week was 4052, and you've used 10 units this week, then you need to enter your new reading of 4062.

Hope that makes sense, or I may have totally missed the point.

Thanks Curley:T. Hadn't realised. That means I've been doing it wrong all along. I've been totting up the kw I've used each week and just entering that - same with the gas units:rolleyes:

Lily-Lu

1carminestocky wrote: »

If you are looking to save on cooking costs, I would recommend the Remoska from Lakeland. OK, not exactly cheap :eek: but we've had it several weeks now and haven't used our leccy double oven once. It's definitely made a significant difference to our consumption figures.

Thanks. I've heard about these and they do sound excellent. Unfortunately at that price, I can only dream about owning one at the mo. Have been looking around at other table top ovens.. They had one on QVC yesterday which looked good. But that was over £60 and still a bit out of my price range. Like you, I'd like to make that leccy guzzling oven of mine, redundent. So, I'm not giving up on the hunt for a bargain:D

whatatwit

I bought a Remoska yesterday from Lakeland, cooked chinese chicken thighs and potatoes in it tonight....absolutely lovely, no fat splattering all over my oven.
I am hoping to see a small difference in my electric next week.

There is a great thread on the Old Style board all about Remoskas.

I realise it could take me a while to re-coup the outlay, but I spent my birthday money on it...~Thanks Mum & Nan ~

I had seriously thought about ebaying some stuff to save up for one, now that money can be used elsewhere.

mardatha

the remoska is THE best buy I ever got .

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I use mine at least once a day and the oven only for storage for 4 months now

1carminestocky

whatatwit wrote: »

I bought a Remoska yesterday from Lakeland, cooked chinese chicken thighs and potatoes in it tonight....absolutely lovely, no fat splattering all over my oven.
I am hoping to see a small difference in my electric next week.

There is a great thread on the Old Style board all about Remoskas.

I realise it could take me a while to re-coup the outlay, but I spent my birthday money on it...~Thanks Mum & Nan ~

I had seriously thought about ebaying some stuff to save up for one, now that money can be used elsewhere.

If you used your leccy oven with anything like the frequency we did before we got the Remoska, I think you may be surprised at the savings! Our Grand Remoska is rated at 650w (the standard is only 475w!) and our leccy oven 3kw. OK, as there is no thermostat on the Remoska it basically costs us (based on our current 10p per kwh charge on Click 5) 6.5p per hour to run.

The comparison calculation with the leccy oven is not quite as black and white as it appears as the oven does have a thermostat so won't be using the 3kw of power at all times but my 'guestimate' of leccy savings by using the Remoska would be 60%. That sort of savings is guaranteed to reduce your annual bill quite substantially (plus IMO things taste much nicer when cooked in the Remoska!).

Magentasue

I love a gadget and have looked at the Remoska and halogen ovens. I have a gas oven now and not sure whether it would be a money saver for me?

I use my oven three or four times a week and always fill it. School holidays when I'm off, it's used most days for bread but I do more making then (rather than buying biscuits etc.) and cook for the freezer.

1carminestocky

Magentasue wrote: »

I love a gadget and have looked at the Remoska and halogen ovens. I have a gas oven now and not sure whether it would be a money saver for me?

I use my oven three or four times a week and always fill it. School holidays when I'm off, it's used most days for bread but I do more making then (rather than buying biscuits etc.) and cook for the freezer.

I suppose the only way to check this is to take a gas meter reading before you use your oven, note the length of time it was being used for, then take a further reading immediately after you turn it off (assuming the heating isn't on at the same time, of course!). Convert that figure into hourly cost and compare it to the Remoska's consumption (475w for the standard, 650w for the Grand). Of course, then there's the purchase cost to be taken into account (£90 standard, £110 Grand). We bought ours as a medium to long-term energy-saving measure but, for us, I genuinely believe we will at least get the money back within the first year, but only time will tell...