Slow cooker running costs for those still thinking of buying one

sb44

I have just been working out how much my new additional (already have a large one, just bought a small size) slow cooker will cost to run.

If anyone is still thinking whether they should buy one or not, mine will cost me just less than 7p to leave it cooking for 8 hours.

It is 120w so times by hours on and divide by 1000 to work out how many kwh it is to run and times that by whatever is says on your electricity bill for the cost of a kwh.

powershopper

nice one sB44, did wonder wether it was viable, now we know. Thank you

sb44

powershopper wrote: »

nice one sB44, did wonder wether it was viable, now we know. Thank you

They are dirt cheap to run, even at the higher end of the electric tariff it would prob only cost about 15p.

Sounds good to me, now where were those 250 crock pot recipes that I had.

Penelope_Penguin

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1carminestocky

Since we got our Remoska we don't use the slow cooker so much. The Remoska cooks meat absolutely beautifully (including stews) and our Grand (largest version) uses approx 7p of leccy per hour (rated at 650w but the regular version is rated at only 475w). Obviously more than a slow cooker does but of course it also cooks much quicker (with similar results with regard to tenderness of meat). The other advantage of the Remoska is it basically does everything an oven does (baking, cooking, etc) but at much reduced cost so our leccy-guzzler of an oven is redundant most days.