For many people the cost of living crisis has made them reassess what is the best way to go about doing normal things, like cooking your dinner in the most cost effective way. With power costing unprecedented amounts, many have bought items like air fryers on the basis that they are cheaper to run.
In his latest podcast Martin Lewis, renowned for his financial advice, has spoken to cooks who have been using microwaves and air fryers more. Mr Lewis said that in some cases it actually was more power efficient to use the traditional oven instead, the MEN reports.
He said: “The problem with the equation for heating equipment is an oven is going to be about 2000W. A microwave I believe, from memory, a best guess explanation, a microwave gives you consistent heat whereas an oven is warming up to full temperature and then topping it up, so it isn’t running at full power the whole time.
