Cost of running the oven for baking?

Dinah93

Seriously geeky of me I know, but how much do you think it costs in electricity to run the oven for an hour (20mins warm up, 40mins cooking time)?

A lot of friends have been encouraging me to set up a little baking enterprise from home, but I don't have any idea how much it costs to power the electrical things and therefore whether it would be at all viable.

Penelope_Penguin

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try here: http://www.ecocentre.org.uk/nwappliances.html

might be what you are looking for.

PasturesNew

Domino9 wrote: »

try here: http://www.ecocentre.org.uk/nwappliances.html

might be what you are looking for.

Quick list from that site: http://www.ecocentre.org.uk/docs/EEAC%20Flier%20Running%20Costs%20eng.pdf

Says a conventional electric oven would use 3kW/hour.

espresso

PasturesNew wrote: »

Quick list from that site: http://www.ecocentre.org.uk/docs/EEAC%20Flier%20Running%20Costs%20eng.pdf

Says a conventional electric oven would use 3kW/hour.

:rotfl:

It also states that a computer consumes 1kWh and that a digibox or a cable box consumes 90W which is absolute rubbish!

Dinah93

Thanks so much for the help guys.

So, about 3 kw/h.... better google for how much a kw/h costs now! Haven't actually had my own electric bill for well over a year now.

notbritishgas

Dinah93 wrote: »

Thanks so much for the help guys.

So, about 3 kw/h.... better google for how much a kw/h costs now! Haven't actually had my own electric bill for well over a year now.

No, as espresso states above that is a load of hot air!

The oven may have an element of 3kw, although some modern ones may be as low as 2.3 kw. But the element is not consuming electricity for the whole hour because the thermostat will switch it off and on to maintain the set temperature. As a rough guide (and this will depend on the temerature set) my oven takes about 10 minutes to warm up so it is using full power for that amount of time, then the thermostat cycle will have it on for about half the remaining time.