Microwave ovens have become a kitchen appliance in most homes, providing you with a quick and easy way to cook and enjoy your food in no time. However, when you are using a microwave oven, you have thought about how much electricity it consumes. Although a microwave oven is a relatively small appliance, the amount of energy it is going to require during its use is still not negligible. Considering the rising price of electricity, it is important to know how much energy your microwave oven consumes. So in this article, we will introduce you to the power consumption of microwave ovens and related issues.

1. What is the power consumption of a microwave oven in a day?

A microwave oven is an appliance that uses microwaves to heat food. A microwave oven consists of a magnetron, a stirrer, a control circuit and a cooking chamber. When the food into the microwave oven, the magnetron will microwave oven cooking cavity to generate microwave electric field, stirrer is a device like a fan, it can make the microwave electric field as much as possible to evenly distribute, and the cooking cavity of the metal wall can reflect the microwave, so that the microwave repeatedly through the food, to achieve the effect of uniform heating of food. The control circuit controls the cooking time of the food and the intensity of the microwave electric field to realize the final cooking of various foods.

The power consumption of microwave oven is estimated based on the power consumption of most households, it will be quite different from your actual microwave consumption. There are many factors that affect the power consumption of a microwave oven, such as the amount of food you heat up each time you use the microwave oven, the way you heat up the food, your usage habits, and so on.

For microwave ovens, when you heat up more than a certain amount of food, the microwave will pass through the food more slowly, the heating time will be longer, resulting in the microwave oven consumes more electricity. If you want to find out how much power your microwave oven consumes, we’ve provided you with the steps to calculate it below, but you’ll need to know the following two figures before you do so.

The power of the microwave oven: If you have already purchased a microwave oven, you can find out how much power it uses by looking at the nameplate on the back of the microwave oven or in the microwave oven’s instruction manual. If you have not purchased a microwave oven, you can ask the salesperson directly or check on the official website of the microwave oven. However, we have also compiled some microwave oven power for you, you can directly determine the power of your microwave oven according to the type and size of your microwave oven.

Microwave Oven Hours of Use: For the hours of use of your microwave oven, you can know it from the display panel of your microwave oven, which will show the hours of operation of your microwave oven, but this may be the cumulative hours of use of your microwave oven or single use, which is mainly related to the model and settings of your microwave oven. This is mainly related to the model and settings of your microwave oven. If it is a single use, you also need to record the length of each use before calculating it.

After you know the two figures above, you can use the following formula to calculate the power consumption of your microwave oven in a day.

Microwave oven power consumption = microwave oven power * microwave oven usage hours

If the power of your microwave oven is 1000W, and the length of time the microwave oven is used in a day is 1h, then the power consumption of your microwave oven is 1000W*1h=1000Wh, which means that your dryer needs to consume 1kwh in a day.

2. How much can I save by using solar system to power my microwave oven?

Solar system is a system that utilizes clean energy to generate electricity, the biggest advantage is that it can reduce the dependence of electrical appliances on grid power, thus reducing energy costs. Using a solar system to power a microwave oven amounts to zero cost for later use, except for the initial investment. Especially in places where there is plenty of sunlight, you can significantly reduce your electricity bill. If the price of electricity in your area is $0.1/kWh, and we still calculate the above data, you can save $0.1 a day, $3 a month, and $36 a year.

3. How to reduce the power consumption of microwave oven?

Choose energy-saving microwave oven: If you haven’t purchased a microwave oven yet, then when you buy a microwave oven, you can choose a microwave oven with ENERGY STAR certification or high-efficiency rating, so that the energy-saving microwave oven can reduce the power consumption of the microwave oven from the root.

Reduce the time you use your microwave oven: The time you use your microwave oven affects the overall energy consumption, the longer you cook, the longer you consume electricity. To save energy, you can find out in advance how long it will take to heat up various vegetables or use the residual heat from the microwave to continue to heat up your food after it has been turned off.

Reduce the additional functions of microwave oven: Nowadays, microwave ovens not only have the function of heating food, but also have some other auxiliary functions such as barbecue function, although these functions increase the versatility of microwave ovens, they will also consume more electricity, so you need to consider the balance between functions and energy consumption according to the actual use.

Conclusion:

Microwave ovens enable fast cooking. You can minimize the energy consumption of your microwave oven when you do so by understanding the energy consumption of your microwave oven, and we’ve also mentioned some ways to reduce the energy consumption of your microwave oven above that can help you reduce your electricity bill when you’re actually using it.