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We finally got a microwave cooker
We're probably one of the few people in the country who didn't have one already, but after having discovered how easy it was to use ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
auntygillian's when I was cat-sitting recently (hers has a broken timer, so if that's easy to use, then the rest must be child's play), we decided to get one ourselves.
By way of a bonus, they use less than a quarter the electricity of a conventional cooker, so, less CO2 emissions as well. It's hard to calculate exact savings, as I can't measure what the normal cooker uses. However, according to a site I just looked at, the large ring on an electric cooker uses around 2kW and a microwave is less than 1kW (think of a small ring as just over 1kW). Things cook in roughly a quarter of the time in a microwave, so the electricity usage will be between a quarter and an eighth of what I'd normally use.
Sticking a finger in the air, I'd expect to save at least a tenner a year in electricity if I get in the habit of using the microwave regualarly.
Quicker, cheaper and less CO2. Works for me.
(the microwave was thirty something quid, so will pay for itself in less than four years, without adding anything for the convenience)
auntygillian's when I was cat-sitting recently (hers has a broken timer, so if that's easy to use, then the rest must be child's play), we decided to get one ourselves.By way of a bonus, they use less than a quarter the electricity of a conventional cooker, so, less CO2 emissions as well. It's hard to calculate exact savings, as I can't measure what the normal cooker uses. However, according to a site I just looked at, the large ring on an electric cooker uses around 2kW and a microwave is less than 1kW (think of a small ring as just over 1kW). Things cook in roughly a quarter of the time in a microwave, so the electricity usage will be between a quarter and an eighth of what I'd normally use.
Sticking a finger in the air, I'd expect to save at least a tenner a year in electricity if I get in the habit of using the microwave regualarly.
Quicker, cheaper and less CO2. Works for me.
(the microwave was thirty something quid, so will pay for itself in less than four years, without adding anything for the convenience)