Energy Usage Costs by Appliance

Robin9

scaredofdebt said:

I think our problem is cooking, we tend to use 20-30 units a day but yesterday we cooked a big meal and usage was nearly

 50 units/kwh

How much does a typical oven use?  Also how much does a typical hob use (induction)?

I can't easily measure those as the plug isn't easily accessible.

We cooked our Sunday casserole for 5 kWh

avoidtheupsidedownbottles

scaredofdebt said:

How much does a typical oven use?  Also how much does a typical hob use (induction)?

I can't easily measure those as the plug isn't easily accessible.

Someone asked the same thing recently

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6383584/oven-energy#latest

scaredofdebt

Ally_E. said:

scaredofdebt said:

I think our problem is cooking, we tend to use 20-30 units a day but yesterday we cooked a big meal and usage was nearly

 50 units/kwh

How much does a typical oven use?  Also how much does a typical hob use (induction)?

I can't easily measure those as the plug isn't easily accessible.

You used 50kW/h in one day? That's a quarter of the monthly usage for us and I'm liberal with our electric oven use 

Probably about 47/48 kW/h and it will be ~26 hours or so as I read the meter a bit later today.

It's quite a large 4 bed detached house, 6 people including 3 teenagers with their gadgets.  No heating though, just hot water that's usually about 3-4 kW/h a day.

But the only obvious difference I can see is we used the cooker/hob etc for a longish period of time, there is an extractor fan with LED lights as well and they were on as it was dark.

Ally_E.

scaredofdebt said:

Ally_E. said:

scaredofdebt said:

I think our problem is cooking, we tend to use 20-30 units a day but yesterday we cooked a big meal and usage was nearly

 50 units/kwh

How much does a typical oven use?  Also how much does a typical hob use (induction)?

I can't easily measure those as the plug isn't easily accessible.

You used 50kW/h in one day? That's a quarter of the monthly usage for us and I'm liberal with our electric oven use 

Probably about 47/48 kW/h and it will be ~26 hours or so as I read the meter a bit later today.

It's quite a large 4 bed detached house, 6 people including 3 teenagers with their gadgets.  No heating though, just hot water that's usually about 3-4 kW/h a day.

But the only obvious difference I can see is we used the cooker/hob etc for a longish period of time, there is an extractor fan with LED lights as well and they were on as it was dark.

You combined your electricity used with water in your message above. Did you mean 50kW/h of all energy, that being gas and electric combined? 50kW/h of electricity is a lot. We are in detached house too, but just the 2 of us. During the times when husband was mining crypto we had usage of 15kW/h a day max. Even on days when he mined and we had a heatwave and had the aircon blasting 24/7 we used 20kW/h a day. I would strongly recommend investigating this high usage. Tapo energy monitor from amazon is very useful for this. 

rolstherat

Our energy usage shoots up when my boys of are their PS5s. It can be a few pounds a day more, anyone else found this? 

Plasticman

Really good info. Today my son used the washing machine and tumble dryer for one pair of jeans. Now I know how much to charge him. 

scaredofdebt

Ally_E. said:

scaredofdebt said:

Ally_E. said:

scaredofdebt said:

I think our problem is cooking, we tend to use 20-30 units a day but yesterday we cooked a big meal and usage was nearly

 50 units/kwh

How much does a typical oven use?  Also how much does a typical hob use (induction)?

I can't easily measure those as the plug isn't easily accessible.

You used 50kW/h in one day? That's a quarter of the monthly usage for us and I'm liberal with our electric oven use 

Probably about 47/48 kW/h and it will be ~26 hours or so as I read the meter a bit later today.

It's quite a large 4 bed detached house, 6 people including 3 teenagers with their gadgets.  No heating though, just hot water that's usually about 3-4 kW/h a day.

But the only obvious difference I can see is we used the cooker/hob etc for a longish period of time, there is an extractor fan with LED lights as well and they were on as it was dark.

You combined your electricity used with water in your message above. Did you mean 50kW/h of all energy, that being gas and electric combined? 50kW/h of electricity is a lot. We are in detached house too, but just the 2 of us. During the times when husband was mining crypto we had usage of 15kW/h a day max. Even on days when he mined and we had a heatwave and had the aircon blasting 24/7 we used 20kW/h a day. I would strongly recommend investigating this high usage. Tapo energy monitor from amazon is very useful for this. 

No gas here all electric, the nearly 50 kW/h was for everything combined, with water heating, the CH isn't on at the moment, yet!

Yeah I am thinking something is wrong somewhere, will try that monitor thanks.

We had a new smart meter fitted about 2 years ago, could it be faulty?  I hear it is very, very unlikely though.

Magnitio

scaredofdebt said:

 "including 3 teenagers with their gadgets."

It seems this is becoming a common theme with high usage. Do you know what their gadgets are? Gaming PC's? PS5?

tghe-retford

I need to do more data gathering into this but it appears from what I have found so far, home entertainment setups including LED TV's (not even plasma or CRT), sound systems, game consoles and computers could be more of an issue regarding cost than using an oven regularly, on par with or even exceeding a fridge freezer running 24/7.

The biggest cost was the home entertainment set-up followed by the fridge freezer. And I think it is down to the concept of lower wattage items being used for long hours as opposed to high wattage items being used occasionally.

On the flip side, I have found that charging phones and tablets are not a major contributor to energy usage and digital radios use very little energy, around 2-3W depending on the model.

One thing that surprised me, the 750W microwave I have pulls 1200W when firing the magnetron but like an oven or an air fryer, it doesn't happen constantly. Still cheaper than an air fryer but not as cheap as people think.

jimjames

Krakkkers said:

So it does, that's my eyes failing me. Still £438 a year.

More than mine but not much. It's running at just under 2kWh per day