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Old 03-08-09, 08:43 AM   #8
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Default Cost of a chicken cooking

This is the kind of question I can't reply to as the oven is hardwired so I can't use the watt-meter on it.

This noon we eat a 3.5 lbs chicken. It has been cooked during 1 hour at 270°C. Before that the oven was pre-heated during 15 minutes.

Here is the real time consumption during the chicken cooking :

The square and the 6 bars correspond to the chicken cooking.

A quick calculation gives : 25 minutes + 6 * 5 minutes at 2.2 kW = 2.0 kWh
ie 0.22 € at 0.1106€/kWh in peak hours.

We are using the oven only twice a month and we bought it with the house.

The peak on the first oven's bar corresponds to the micro-wave oven use.

Denis.
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