# How Much Electricity Does the Anova Use?

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**Created:** [December 8, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/how-much-electricity-does-the-anova-use/11082 "2017-12-08T17:20:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/how-much-electricity-does-the-anova-use/11082/5 "2017-12-09T04:02:53Z")

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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?](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/sous-vide-koozie-anyone-tried-it/9739/4):
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> 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.

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