DIYbanter - View Single Post - Changing over from Electric oven to gas

Clark W. Griswold, Jr.

wrote:

Isn't it a lot more expensive to run an electric oven over a gas oven?

Just how many hours a year are you running your oven? An electric oven consumes
about 5000 watts. Most people in the US pay around $0.07/kWh, so the oven costs
less than .35/hour to run. Less because the burner element isn't on 100%.

Even if you ran your oven two hours a day for 3 days a week, you are only
talking $50/year in operating costs for electric.