How Much Electricity Does the Anova Use?

[michihenning]

By all means, if it pleases you, use an insulated container to save electricity. The savings are minimal though:

Sous Vide Koozie - anyone tried it?

It looks nice, and neoprene is a good insulator. I’m not sure that the return on investment stacks up though. The Anova consumes 800 or 900 W when it’s heating. To keep water for the average recipe warm, I’ve seen it switch on (on average) about 20% of the time (measured by looking at my consumption meter). The actual figure will vary greatly with season and location. Let’s be ultra-pessimistic and assume that the Anova has its heater turned on 50% of the time to keep the water at the target tem…

I wouldn’t go out though and buy an insulated container purely to reduce electricity consumption; chances are that you won’t recover the cost of the container over the lifetime of the Anova.

Michi.