Smart Meter and Cheapest cooking method

purpleivy

ariarnia wrote: »

It's amazing!


Use it at least once a week now.

Ribs are amazing, beef stew fantastic in 20 minutes and it makes chicken so tender *drools*...

Agree...amazing. Mine gets used a lot more than once a week. I make yogurt regularly normal and thick, normally mash one day, tomato sauce, bol, sheps pie mix, soup, stock, hb eggs.loads more. Pulses. Marmalade fruit is cooked, stewed fruit to go with yogurt. I cook most stuff from scratch, so it's invaluable.


I had an old style pressure cooker and was always comfortable with it, Mum had one.

YORKSHIRELASS

This is a topic close to my heart, we have no mains gas so all cooking is electric. I use:

Slow cooker for casseroles, curries etc. 250w slow cooker on for 8 hours costs 27p.

Halogen oven (used in place of my main electric oven), 1400w so 19p on full for an hour, oven chips in 20 minutes 6p.

This compares with my main oven which uses roughly 2400w an hour on medium heat so nearly double the cost.

My electric hob uses up to 3000w so a pan to boil water and cook veg might be 20 minutes, 14p.

This compares to cooking the same veg in the microwave (800w) for 5 minutes which might only be 1p.

My George Forman grill is 1100 watts so 4p for 15 minutes. My grill is 2000 watts on full but takes a long time to heat up so would need to be on for a least 20 minutes for the same cooking time so 9p.

These are just my very rough calculations and based on my electric tarriff of 13.5p per unit per kwh.

pamsdish

I had a smart meter fitted 9th Jan, it is a bit scary sometimes, as you watch it go red, especially in this cold snap with heating.
I have a halogen oven and when my bill jumped by 40% 18 months ago, I cut down on its use, I slow cook a lot, I have a 3.5 litre Neostar Perma hot water boiler, just enough to last all day for my drinks, set at keeping water 95 deg all day, I set it to come on about 7a.m., when I look at my s.m. it has cost approx 18p on my meter from 12 am to my rising to run everything, I cook my dogs 3 thighs chicken in s.c. overnight every 3 days, timer set for 12.15 am till 6 am, those days s.m. reads approx 25p, a washing load is approx 20p, but I do have a hot/cold fill machine and often set it to 2 which is hot fill only, then remember to turn it down to 4, which is the setting I use most, faster spin. I have a Tefal 45 in1, which I must try to see what it uses on various settings, I cook on my gas cooker as much as possible as I feel cheaper and warming bungalow too. I have a lot of electric gadgets which I seldom use, p.s. just remembered my camomile tea, I make it in the afternoon and pop into micro for 3 mins to reheat at night, that costs 2p.