Things on standby & Air Fryer / Ninja Foodie's (& similar)

JustAnotherSaver

Thread is a 2 part question.

1) With things as they are, how much do things that you tend to leave plugged in all day (that don't NEED to be) use?

Now without getting silly about it - the landline I would say needs to be plugged in.

But the microwave when not being used, we only have turned on for the clock. There's an actual clock in the kitchen so that's the kind of thing I'd argue is not really needed.

TV being on standby rather than switched off (as in the on/off switch on the TV, not the mains).

Mobile phone chargers is one. I have a wireless one on the bedside table & just put my phone on it at night & it's set to charge to 85% then stop, but once I get up in a morning, the charger is still connected to the mains - just no phone on it.

Now while i don't know how to work it all out, I'm not for a second thinking these things by turning them fully off are going to save me £1000s.

I just wondered what we're talking here.

2) For some of the things we have to eat (careful which way you read that ), I think the oven is a bit excessive. I was told today that things like air friers & Ninja Foodie's do the job & use less energy than the oven.

Considering I have a ton of Nectar points, the initial outlay may not even be part of the issue.

Have never experienced these devices so don't know what they can/can't do, how good (or not) they are at what they do.

2 examples - last night some yorkshire puds in the oven. The time it takes to heat it up just for 4 minutes i'm not keen on. Sunday my wife tends to have the oven on for her dinner - takes a good bit of time heating up & then however long the stuff is in for, 10mins or so.

Aside from changing what we eat to something that doesn't require an oven (which of course is certainly an option), I just wondered about these alternatives - especially as I have Nectar points that I don't really use.

Mstty

I think Air fryers are approx 1400-1700w and ovens are roughly 2000-2500w but depends on make so definitely a saving if you don't have to pay for the outlay of the air fryer.

Microwave is cheaper to use

k_man

JustAnotherSaver said:

Thread is a 2 part question.

1) With things as they are, how much do things that you tend to leave plugged in all day (that don't NEED to be) use?

Now without getting silly about it - the landline I would say needs to be plugged in.

But the microwave when not being used, we only have turned on for the clock. There's an actual clock in the kitchen so that's the kind of thing I'd argue is not really needed.

TV being on standby rather than switched off (as in the on/off switch on the TV, not the mains).

Mobile phone chargers is one. I have a wireless one on the bedside table & just put my phone on it at night & it's set to charge to 85% then stop, but once I get up in a morning, the charger is still connected to the mains - just no phone on it.

Now while i don't know how to work it all out, I'm not for a second thinking these things by turning them fully off are going to save me £1000s.

I just wondered what we're talking here.

2) For some of the things we have to eat (careful which way you read that ), I think the oven is a bit excessive. I was told today that things like air friers & Ninja Foodie's do the job & use less energy than the oven.

Considering I have a ton of Nectar points, the initial outlay may not even be part of the issue.

Have never experienced these devices so don't know what they can/can't do, how good (or not) they are at what they do.

2 examples - last night some yorkshire puds in the oven. The time it takes to heat it up just for 4 minutes i'm not keen on. Sunday my wife tends to have the oven on for her dinner - takes a good bit of time heating up & then however long the stuff is in for, 10mins or so.

Aside from changing what we eat to something that doesn't require an oven (which of course is certainly an option), I just wondered about these alternatives - especially as I have Nectar points that I don't really use.

Just make sure there really is nothing else you can use the Nectar points for.

Using points doesn't make something free.

JustAnotherSaver

Mstty said:

I think Air fryers are approx 1400-1700w and ovens are roughly 2000-2500w but depends on make so definitely a saving if you don't have to pay for the outlay of the air fryer.

Microwave is cheaper to use

I don't know which forum or forums but my wife browses at least one where there's a discussion about this at the moment (I'm going to guess mumsnet but could be wrong). She says the outcome from that is that something on the lines of a Ninja Foodie consumes more energy BUT gets to temp quicker and/or cooks quicker & is therefore cheaper.

I don't know about other peoples ovens but ours is horrendous for heating up.

No doubt I could pull someone in from another house & they'll say ours heats up rapid compared to theirs or that it's normal but in my opinion ours takes a good while to heat up to about 180-200c.

Need to start Googling some reviews on these air fryers & Ninja Foodie things. I have reservations about something that tries to do everything as they tend to do nothing well. That may or may not be the case with these things.

Mstty

We have recently started maxing out the oven. So rather than just using one rung for cooking one thing we use another rung for roasted veg to use over the next 3-4 days. Biscuits/cakes or banana oat bites on another rung and the final rung some jacket spuds but small potatoes so they cook fast in line with everything else and lots of other stuff as well.

So although the fan oven (neff) is pumping out at 180oC it's using approx 1.5kWh or 44p.

Might be an idea to try