# I know this is a REALLY tough question.... **URL:** https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/i-know-this-is-a-really-tough-question/29235 **Category:** General **Created:** [August 28, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/i-know-this-is-a-really-tough-question/29235 "2021-08-28T15:44:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 14
### Author: ![Newbie-May-2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecccb3/32.png) [@Newbie-May-2020](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Newbie-May-2020) #### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/i-know-this-is-a-really-tough-question/29235/14 "2021-09-09T15:26:53Z")
As Chatnoir pointed out, it’s peanuts. Here’s my original post: > [@Ever wonder how much electricity your ANOVA Precision Cooker uses, while cooking?](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/ever-wonder-how-much-electricity-your-anova-precision-cooker-uses-while-cooking/26120): > > The answer: surprisingly (to me) very little. Having just yesterday SV’d some baby back pork ribs for 20 hours, I started wondering what it was costing me in electricity, to run my Anova Precision Cooker for that long, or for any period, for that matter. So today, when I was SV’ing some 1 ½” thick filet mignons, for 2 ½ hours, I thought I’d plug in my trusty Kill-A-Watt meter. My last electric power bill worked out to a rate of $ 0.164/kW including taxes and fees. I ran the Anova for 2 hrs a… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/i-know-this-is-a-really-tough-question/29235)._