

It comes after research of 2,000 households found they spend approximately 43 minutes cooking each day, with 42% using the oven by default for most of their cooking needs.īut more than half (52%) admitted they don’t know which of their cooking appliances cost more to run. The research is based on the energy consumption of 83 appliances across 24 sources, including academic research, legislation, and data collected from popular shopping websites.

Not overfilling the kettle could leave you with an extra £19 over a 12-month period. Letting water simmer rather than leaving it boiling can also save £68 annually. And it is not just switching appliances that could save money, as the data found batch-cooking food could save up to £158 a year, while using the right sized pan, with a lid, could cut costs by £72. The figures – based on the latest figures from Cornwall Insight on 22nd August – come as Utilita and Iceland are set to rollout the “Shop Smart, Cook Savvy” campaign in-stores and online in September, to help identify the most economical ways of cooking. Meanwhile an air fryer is at the more economical end of the scale, costing just 14p a day to run – totalling £52.74 over a 12-month period. Other cooking appliances commonly used include the gas cooker, which costs 33p a day, or £120.83 a year, and the part-electric, part-gas dual cooker, which sets users back 72p daily, or £264.03 annually. Read More: I put the Tesco Clubcard to the test - are the savings really as good as they seem? The most energy intensive is the electric cooker, which can cost up to £316.54 a year to run – while at the other end of the scale, the microwave costs just 8p a day, totalling a meagre £30.02 annually. Out of all of the appliances, the newly-popular air fryer was one of the appliances costing the least, costing on average £52.74 a year, reports The Mirror. The results were based on the average amount of time each household uses each appliance per day. Millions of homeowners are looking for ways to cut costs especially with the predicted rise in energy bills which means bills could hit an all-time-high of £5000 a year.Ī study by energy supplier Utilita alongside huge supermarket chain Iceland took place to analyse the cost of running six of the most common kitchen appliances, and ranking which one on average runs cheapest.
