When you use your electric oven to bake a dish, you may not think about how much power it uses. But when you need to pay your electricity bill at the end of the month, you may need to know about the energy consumption of your electric oven. There’s no denying that an electric oven is an appliance that you need to have in your modern kitchen, not only to support your cooking, but also to be safer than gas cooking. So how much electricity does an electric oven consume?

In this article, we will discuss with you the power consumption of electric oven and related issues.

1. How much energy does an electric oven consume?

An electric oven is a common kitchen appliance that can be used to make roasts, toasts and other foods. Electric ovens work by using a heating element that heats the air inside the oven to heat the food. A typical electric oven has two or more heating elements inside. So the main power consuming part of an electric oven is the heating element. In addition, another more power-consuming component of an electric oven is the fan, which is not intended for cooling purposes; it mainly disperses the hot air from the oven evenly over the food so that the food is heated evenly.

In some households in the United States, the power consumption of electric ovens is between 2000W and 5000W, but this data is the conclusion drawn from a survey of some households, and for the time that some households use their electric ovens as well as the model of the electric ovens, this data may cause a big difference. In this case, we can actually use the calculation method to understand the power consumption of the electric oven at home. However, this calculation result may also have some deviation, but it still has some reference value. Below is one of the calculations that we have provided for you.

Before the calculation, you need to know two data about the electric oven that can help you calculate the power consumption of the electric oven.

The power of the electric oven: When you want to know the power of the electric oven, the power of the electric oven is usually indicated in the technical specification label of the electric oven. Or you can also find out the power of the oven in the manual of the oven. Other than that, you can also refer to some of the power of electric ovens that we have provided for you below.

Electric Oven Usage Time: For most of the electric ovens, they are not able to know the cumulative usage time directly, but you can estimate the usage time of the electric oven by your usage history. However, for some high-end ovens, there may be a cumulative timer function, which can directly display the usage time of the oven. This way, you only need to check the control panel of the oven to know how long the oven has been used.

After you know these two figures, you can use the following formula to calculate the power consumption of your electric oven.

Electricity consumption of electric oven = power of electric oven * length of use of electric oven

If the power of your electric oven is 1500W, and you need to use your electric oven to cook food for 2h, then the power consumption of your electric oven will be 1500W*2h=3000Wh, which means that your electric oven needs to consume 3kwh in a day.

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

The main advantage of using a solar system to power your electric oven is that it reduces your electricity bill and your dependence on the grid. However, the savings in electricity costs is not a definite value, it depends on your actual situation, but we can also calculate it. You need to know the price of electricity in your area, if the price of electricity in your area is $0.1/kWh, and we still calculate according to the above data, you can save $0.3 a day for electric oven, $9 a month, and $108 a year.

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

Utilize the residual heat: After you turn off the power of the electric oven, there will be a lot of heat inside the oven, you can use this heat to heat up other food or you can turn off the oven five minutes before the food is finished cooking to let the residual heat finish the food cooking.

Choose the right baking container: When you use an electric oven, you usually put the food in a container to heat it up. In that case, you can choose some containers with good thermal conductivity, such as ceramic or metal containers used for baking, which have better thermal conductivity and heat up faster, so that you can heat up the temperature heating in a short period of time and reduce power consumption.

Preheating time should not be too long: for electric ovens such as high temperature heating food appliances, they need to preheat in advance, to avoid the rapid increase in the temperature of the electric oven, the damage to the electric oven software In general, the preheating time of the electric oven is about ten minutes, preheating time is too long, if you need to consume more power.

CONCLUSION:

When you know the energy consumption of your electric oven by knowing how much energy it consumes, you can know your cost of cooking food every time you use your electric oven. After that, you can optimize the energy consumed by your electric oven based on the cost of using it. And we have provided you with some ways to reduce the energy consumption of your dryer, which can help you to reduce your electricity bills by the right amount.