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Toaster ovens and toasters are at most 1800W appliances. Typical electric oven elements are in the 3000-3500W range. If you're broiling, toaster ovens are much
by SECProto 4y ago
Toaster ovens and toasters are at most 1800W appliances. Typical electric oven elements are in the 3000-3500W range. If you're broiling, toaster ovens are much more efficient.
Ovens I've used take roughly 15minutes to warm to 400F (200C), regardless of if they are electric or gas.
- henryfjordan 4y agoHow many times can you run that oven before you spent the energy required to produce the toaster oven? I'd bet it's in the thousands.
- SECProto 4y agoIf you apply the same anti-consumption calculation to everything in life I applaud you wholeheartedly. That said, you can buy a toaster oven for $30 from Walmart, and that cost covers the energy, material, transportation, and labour, plus markups at each stage. If you assume a $0.10/kWh energy cost, you might have at absolute most 100kWh of energy used in manufacture. That puts the oven/toasteroven breakeven point from an energy perspective at no more than about 60 hours of heating element usage.