Test meal 25-Nov-2023
reheat mash ( potatoes&parsnip&carrot with finely chopped spring onion and a little bit of butter)
reheat peas and spinach
a frozen piece of chicken in batter on top of those
all in one 8"x4" baking tray in the mini oven
used less than 0.18 kWh to cook (should cost 6p at usual electricity prices)
nil electricity bill because I cooked it for free while there was sun on the solar panels
1 x fish pie for two. Take one large casserole dish and cover bottom with Schwarz Fish Pie Sauce. Place fish pie mix on top and sprinkle lightly with curry powder (not too much mind you). Put remainder of sauce on top and cover with pre- cooked mashed potato and make some rustic fork marks on the top. That’s two of us sorted.
1 x sweet and sour chicken for one. Put some browned chicken, mushrooms and red peppers in a small casserole dish and cover with Uncle Bens Sweet and Sour Sauce. That’s the other one sorted.
Put both in the big oven and cook for 75 mins.
Boil rice for the chicken dish and put two pans with different veg to satisfy everyone on the hob too.
Put plates in small oven to warm.
Cost a bleeding’ fortune and no solar panels to share the burden.
Tasted good though 😂
I'm an Eon Next dual fuel customer with no particular expertise but have some time on my hands that I am using to try and help out a bit.
Test snack 22nd January 2024
270 grams of chips in Belaco cheapo mini oven. I call it a snack because a proper meal should be twice as much stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Z7JMOy6wQ
0.286 kWh
Should cost about 9p at the usual price.
For me, using rooftop solar power which is free, the electricity cost nothing.
I appreciate this was a while back but I would love to know how you got on with your search and if you managed to find the most energy saving cooking appliance?
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Veggie burger and a huge jacket potato in the cheapo mini oven (microwaved yesterday in a pyrex bowl for steam retention with yesterdays' similar jacket potato; first microwave and then bake in oven with a pinch of salt and a spoonful of best olive oil)
plus half a raw carrot, an ounce of sliced cucumber, and a forest of salad leaves
Sorry - no metering on that today but it was in the mini-oven for 1/2 hour, which is 0.72kW, so it could not have used much. That thing was getting about half solar power for free in todays' gloomy weather, so very few pennies for electricity to make a big plate full of food.
My biggest complaint with the £30 mini oven is the build quality. They could have spent a few pennies more on the door spring and instead used a flimsy one which went beyond its elastic limit in normal use and no longer works. To keep the oven door shut for cooking, I use a plank with a nail in it. That sounds ugly and it is, but it crisps the jacket spud about right and made a really good meal.
It's Friday, so Fish and Chips went in the cheapo mini oven. It was on for half an hour. From the in-home-display with the smets2 "smart" meter, the house total import since midnight went up from 0.321kWh to 0.323kWh before vs after cooking. That is, this horrible little oven is small enough to work for free on a cloudy day like today from the usual generation of the rooftop solar panels. ( well 0.002 kWh was not free. There are a few really dark clouds up there today ).
I was a bit late to start the veg so today's fish and chips was with salad, cucumber and celery.
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