# Is Anova Cheap, or Environmental friendly to cook with? What is your gut feeling? **URL:** https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/is-anova-cheap-or-environmental-friendly-to-cook-with-what-is-your-gut-feeling/26246 **Category:** General **Created:** [June 11, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/is-anova-cheap-or-environmental-friendly-to-cook-with-what-is-your-gut-feeling/26246 "2020-06-11T00:30:12Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![fischersd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/fischersd/32/5594_2.png) [@fischersd](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/fischersd) #### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/is-anova-cheap-or-environmental-friendly-to-cook-with-what-is-your-gut-feeling/26246/3 "2020-06-11T02:42:06Z")
Maybe search a little first - someone already monitored their power usage…about 5 cents an hour. > [@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… You’re also not providing nearly enough metrics for whatever your traditional method is for there to be a comparison. Also, a number of geographies generate much of their electricity from renewable resources. If you’re going to go into a forum chastising people for using appliances, please demonstrate how you have a 0 carbon footprint in your life first. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/is-anova-cheap-or-environmental-friendly-to-cook-with-what-is-your-gut-feeling/26246)._