Can an airfryer save on billd

anisaakhtar

I am looking to buy a Ninja airfryer however compared to cooking in a gas oven, gas tariff being cheaper than electricity, would an electronic airfryer save me more money than using the gas oven? 

wild666

I don't know but my Ninja air fryer uses between 0.3 and 0.5 kWh when I cook a my meals in it. It's only on for 15 minutes per day, most days. 
Mine's also a pressure cooker so I do a chicken in it and have that with either new potato's, chips or a jacket potato, done in the microwave and skin crisped up in air fryer, and peas, again microwaved. 
If the only item using gas is your cooker just take two readings, one before and one straight after you've cooked the meal and include the red digits in the reading, 0.088 will be one kWh of gas, roughly, 10.3p, use your new gas price per kWh, on the meter reading. 

EssexHebridean

Quick answer - no, almost certainly not. Take a look at the other thread already running with this exact question though for more info.

Alnat1

It would take several years to get the purchase price paid back in saved energy costs. Depends if you expect the appliance to carry on working for this long. 

matelodave

If gas cost 10.5p per kwh and leccy costs 34.5p/kwh then it would cost you something like 24p an hour more to run than a gas oven. Here are some simple sums based on saving 50% of the energy of a normal oven

If it takes 50% of the energy to cook the same amount of food because it doesn't need preheating and it loses less heat than a big oven it would still cost you at least 2p an hour more to run than a gas oven, so you'd never save any money

 If you compared it with an electric over and it used 50% of the energy of a normal oven, then you could potentially save around 17p an hour. If you paid £100 for your fryer you could break even after around three and bit years compared with an electric oven if you used it for 30 minutes a day.

Spoonie_Turtle

wild666 said: 

Mine's also a pressure cooker so I do a chicken in it and have that with either new potato's, chips or a jacket potato, done in the microwave and skin crisped up in air fryer, and peas, again microwaved. 

So you'd need to factor in the microwave costs for those meals as well, if you were looking at cost rather than just convenience.

anisaakhtar

EssexHebridean said:

Quick answer - no, almost certainly not. Take a look at the other thread already running with this exact question though for more info.

Thanks. I was trying to look at of there was anything out up about. Will have a look. I will stick to a gas oven I was always sceptical of a airfryer 

facade

It is only recently that air fryers have been touted as energy saving.

When I bought mine it was supposed to be healthier than a deep fryer or the frying pan because it only uses a tiny amount of oil rather than saturating the food with it. Indeed it is far less messy, although it takes a while to convince yourself that the chips are even 10% as nice as when they are properly made in a deep fryer. They are ok as long as you never have properly fried food again, about on a par with oven chips.

(No doubt soon some scientist will say that the hot air oxidises the oil into deadly carcinogens.........)

ariarnia

Spoonie_Turtle said:

wild666 said: 

Mine's also a pressure cooker so I do a chicken in it and have that with either new potato's, chips or a jacket potato, done in the microwave and skin crisped up in air fryer, and peas, again microwaved. 

So you'd need to factor in the microwave costs for those meals as well, if you were looking at cost rather than just convenience.

depends on if those things would otherwise be cooked in the oven. if the peas were always going to be microwaved and potato always at least part cooked in the microwave then the cost is the same. or don't forget to include the cost of a pan on the hob.