Cost of electicity to do toast £1.70 ??

Rosa_Damascena

nursemolly said:

Just listening to jeremy Vine on Radio 2 and a caller said he calculated it costs around £1.70 to use a toaster for just a couple of slices of toast !!!!
What do you all reckon.....
Thanks

I heard this too and I think JV was being kind not to challenge this silliness....unless he meant a year's consumption for that task? IIRC the caller has a disabled partner who needs a warm environment so I have no doubt times are tough for them. Not being able to do basic maths is only going to make life harder for the pair of them...

maisie_cat

This constant misinformation about energy usage is quite irresponsible, journalists appear to get confused between maximum power on an appliance and actual power drawn at any point in time.
Foodbank users feeling unable to afford to cook vegetables was I suspect the result of reading articles in the tabloids. 
We use 1kWh a day max cooking, making drinks etc, 1.5kWh on the days we make bread, so 20p-30p a day

JIL

Why arent callers challenged when they say something so wrong. It's how mass panic and hysteria can start. I had this same conversation with my husband last week. We were away and the local news was on. It was a feature on a food bank.
Comments were read out later, some were factually incorrect and misinformed, however they were read out, without any follow up.

How many people will now stop making toast as they heard on the radio.......

Effician

maisie_cat said:

1.5kWh on the days we make bread, so 20p-30p a day

1.5kWh of electric is likely to be around 70p come October with the new single rate cap, unless you have a good fixed rate.

Rosa_Damascena

Effician said:

maisie_cat said:

1.5kWh on the days we make bread, so 20p-30p a day

1.5kWh of electric is likely to be around 70p come October with the new single rate cap, unless you have a good fixed rate.

The energy required to make a round of toast will still cost nowhere near that.

Effician

Rosa_Damascena said:

Effician said:

maisie_cat said:

1.5kWh on the days we make bread, so 20p-30p a day

1.5kWh of electric is likely to be around 70p come October with the new single rate cap, unless you have a good fixed rate.

The energy required to make a round of toast will still cost nowhere near that.

I know, but i didn't mention toast & neither did maisie_cat. this was about cooking & bread making.

RAS

I'm reckoning that come October 2 slices of toast will cost about tuppence?