And if you’re concerned about sustainability, electric appliances can draw from renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power. Any electric stove beats gas at cooking efficiency. The Consumer Product Safety Commission reported in January 2023 that it plans to strengthen voluntary safety standards on new gas stoves as concerns grow around their health risks a December 2022 study, for example, found that 12.7% of childhood asthma cases could be attributed to gas stove use. Gas stoves may be potentially risky for your health, even with ventilation, in part because they emit benzene and methane. If you have the option, there are other good reasons to consider an electric stove over a gas version. We’d also like to investigate stoves that embrace adaptive design, which allows those with disabilities or who are aging in place to use them more easily. (We do recommend a slide-in induction stove in our guide to slide-in electric ranges.) In particular, we’ll focus on models that can be repaired or easily updated, and that use technology and associated Wi-Fi–enabled apps wisely. For this guide we don’t feel comfortable recommending them, though we hope to add induction options in the future. A couple of affordable freestanding induction ranges are available, but their reported unreliability gives us pause. If you want a durable induction stove with a nice range of features, you should expect to pay much more than you would for a radiant electric stove of the same quality. Induction ranges will also feature a radiant-electric oven.
If you consider that an air fryer does the work of an oven in half the time (even faster when you include preheat time), 300 hours of cooking in a standard oven over the course of a year would likely take fewer than 150 hours when done in an air fryer.Note that the induction cooktops and high-quality radiant-electric ones, like those in our guide, look and feel very similar, with the cooking elements under a smooth glass surface. In the chart above, I added a modest 10 minutes to each of the oven cooking times to account for preheating. Preheating requires as much (or more) energy as actual cooking. The average full-size oven takes at least 10 minutes to preheat but usually more like 12 to 15 minutes. In Hawaii, it's more than double.ĭon't forget most air fryers also don't require any preheating time, making them even more efficient. In some states (including Georgia, Florida and Ohio), natural gas is about 30% higher than the national average. If I were to run an oven for 1 hour per day, it would cost $146 per year. Next, we'll multiply that price for a therm by the number you calculated in the last step (0.18 in this example) to get the operating cost per hour of using your gas oven.įor me, it would cost about 40 cents per hour to run an 18,000-Btu oven. In New York where I live, the price is currently $2.20 per therm (about average for the US). For instance, if the chart price is $23, you'll use $2.30 to calculate the cost. Note that this chart is listed in dollars per thousand cubic feet, so you'll need to divide by 10. This chart has the most recent prices via the US Energy Information Administration. We'll also need to find the average price per therm of natural gas in your state. To calculate the operating cost of an 18,000-Btu oven, you'll divide 18,000 by 100,000, giving you 0.18.
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