Can I boil water on my stove?

aeb_2

Do you mean a wood burning stove? If so then yes. I put water on direct but also stew, stock, soup and steaming the veg. For long, slow cooking I put a trivet under the pan to stop it catching or burning. I can fit two pans on top and I put potatoes in it to bake (wrapped in foil) early evening before adding the evening log
I hardly use the oven in summer except once a week when I fill it to the brim for baking
I run three radiators from it too (stove, not oven) - bathroom and two bedrooms

HariboJunkie

Yep. I do this all the time with the stove in the kitchen.

Popperwell

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

When I popped it on my electric monitor, albeit about 2 years ago, it came out at more like 2p. Depends how much water you have in your kettle.

That sounds more likely. So really if you want to boil a lot of water in a kettle rather than boil a litre in one go it is better to boil half a litre of water twice...

Starting to think a stove is better than a cooker.

Can see the appeal of an AGA...

soba

aeb wrote: »

Do you mean a wood burning stove? If so then yes. I put water on direct but also stew, stock, soup and steaming the veg. For long, slow cooking I put a trivet under the pan to stop it catching or burning. I can fit two pans on top and I put potatoes in it to bake (wrapped in foil) early evening before adding the evening log
I hardly use the oven in summer except once a week when I fill it to the brim for baking
I run three radiators from it too (stove, not oven) - bathroom and two bedrooms

We boil the kettle on our woodburner and fill flasks for dishwashing, stews always seem to taste better when they've been cooked on the top and we do those part baked baguettes on it too, we cut them in half and bake/cook them in our cast iron wok.

SUESMITH_2

I boil water on mine, well if its on you might as well use it. I have a le creuset kettle and it can take up to 15 mins to boil it from cold

Smedders11

It costs a little over a penny to boil the kettle.
1Kwh=12p.
Boiling 1lt of water from room temperature uses about 0.1kwh.
0.1x12= 1.2p per litre boiled.

Electric kettles are quite efficient as most of the heat energy produced escapes into the water (as opposed to the air and metal pan on a gas-fired hob).

Whilst gas is cheaper per kwh, they're quite inefficient when it comes to heating water on the hob. This is due to heat escaping to the air, hob itself and the pan. Plus, hobs aren't optimised to the pan size. Therefore I doubt it's cheaper at all; even if it was, it will be a marginal saving.

If you really want to save money, then either only fill the kettle with what you're going to use, or store the remaining water in a thermal flask.

I've just realised you said you only want to use the stove if it's already been on :P Oh well, I'll leave this here incase people wonder how much it really costs :P

sophlowe45

any ideas on where to buy some inexpensive flasks from?

Popperwell

I have found Wilkinsons to be good and their own brand seems to stay hot longer than the brand normally associated with flasks...Mine stay hot for 12 hours and longer. They seem to have the largest range/choice.

sophlowe45

thanks Wilkinson is a great store, found Stardrops there.

maman

I used to have a solid fuel heater in a previous kitchen that I used in much the same way. To be honest, if you're talking about washing dishes then it's not really boiling you want. It's just 'free' hot water for any cleaning job.