cooking causing rise in gas usage ?

kronas

started eating from home becoming creative in the process and it seems gas usage has increased but mostly due to the price increases so a double impact anyone think using electric would be beneficial switching to microwaves and using airfryers ?

reeac

kronas wrote: »

started eating from home becoming creative in the process and it seems gas usage has increased but mostly due to the price increases so a double impact anyone think using electric would be beneficial switching to microwaves and using airfryers ?

Depends really whether you want to exist on microwaved and fried food.

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I think it's safe to say that gas is cheaper than an electric cooker.
If you look at your energy bill you can find the Kwh costs of each fuel and check this against your cooker's Kwh input rating but you should find that gas is much cheaper per Kwh than electricity.
Microwave cookers cook quickly so their costs are lower of course.

WantToBeSE

I try and make the most of when my oven is on for dinner.

For example, when baking a pie in the oven, i'll often also make sausage rolls, cakes, biscuits etc. So that for the 25mins that the oven is on, it's working to full capacity and no space goes unfilled.

i think that a lot of the 'cook more from home and it'll be cheaper' fail to take into account energy prices.

sniggings

I've been asking the same sort of questions, trying to get my electric down and it seems to be the cooker that is the main eater of electric, apart from not having it on when it doesn't need to be,(I tend to let it warm up for too long before using it) if you have to start using other methods of cooking to save a bit of gas/electric then your problem is not the cost of fuel, as yeah it's high but not that high, you need to start looking at other ways to save or make money...anyway that is what conclusion I have come to, I'm at the bare minimum now, there is only so much you can cut back.

kronas

whilst microwaving is a good option it does not really help if your cooking chicken or such things although it is a microwave oven!

macman

Since electricity is about 300% more expensive per kWh, how do you think it can be cheaper to cook (or indeed do anything) by electricity?

sniggings

macman wrote: »

Since electricity is about 300% more expensive per kWh, how do you think it can be cheaper to cook (or indeed do anything) by electricity?

isn't boiling an electric kettle cheaper than boiling a gas top stove one? it's more efficient.

retiredin2011

I cook using gas and the usage compared to heating hot water and heating the house is minimal.


In the summer I sometimes don't even put the gas cooker or oven on, I eat out or cold meals, and the weekly average usage of gas for heating my water doesn't even decrease if I don't use gas for cooking for a day compared to using it
.

macman

sniggings wrote: »

isn't boiling an electric kettle cheaper than boiling a gas top stove one? it's more efficient.

It's more efficient, certainly (any electric heater is 100% efficient). But it's not 300% more efficient.

st999

It's more efficient, certainly

And more convenient.