Do you find that home cooking is costly in regards to its energy usage?
To those who have always home-cooked and also those who have recently started home-cooking instead of eating ready-meals or eating out.
Have you found that cooking increases your energy bills? if so, by how much?
Thanks
No. The cost to run the oven for one hour per night, or the stove top for 20-30 minutes per night is very minimal. We also like to eat slow cooker meals, and those use very little electricity (fractions of a cent per hour). My typical energy bill is less than $40 per month, and our gas bill is $12. For $52 you could buy two or three terrible fast food meals for a family of 4. You couldn’t even buy enough to feed a family of four at a sit down restaurant for that.
Cooking at home FROM SCRATCH (ie not from a bunch of mixes and frozen dinners) is far cheaper than going out to eat.
Check out these websites and books for inexpensive dinner ideas (some of them have really funny names):
www.hillbillyhousewife.com
www.frugalvillage.com
www.stretcher.com
www.thesimpledollar.com
The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn
October 27th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
No. The cost to run the oven for one hour per night, or the stove top for 20-30 minutes per night is very minimal. We also like to eat slow cooker meals, and those use very little electricity (fractions of a cent per hour). My typical energy bill is less than $40 per month, and our gas bill is $12. For $52 you could buy two or three terrible fast food meals for a family of 4. You couldn’t even buy enough to feed a family of four at a sit down restaurant for that.
Cooking at home FROM SCRATCH (ie not from a bunch of mixes and frozen dinners) is far cheaper than going out to eat.
Check out these websites and books for inexpensive dinner ideas (some of them have really funny names):
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com
http://www.frugalvillage.com
http://www.stretcher.com
http://www.thesimpledollar.com
The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn
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Basic Math and Home Economics courses.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Our utility provider makes it easy to figure out by using their cost estimator. I have a gas cooktop and an electric range and neither make a significant difference in either bill as compared to say the hot water heater and dryer (gas) or the washing machine and dishwasher (electric). Go on your utility provider’s website and see whether they too have a cost estimator. Ours allows you to see how much it costs to run everything from a TV to computers to vacuums to ac and heating to a light bulb.
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