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>>Chris Marksberry wrote:
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>>My toaster oven is rated at 800w, and the wall oven at 3.8 kw. So the
>>toaster oven would use no where near as much energy to heat a pie for
>>example as would a regular oven- and considering that they heat up
>>much quicker as well.
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>That depends on various factors. For long cooking periods, the
>relatively uninsulated toaster oven dumps a lot of heat into the air.
>You can't just go by the power draw while the heating element's on, you
>have figure in the amount of time during the cooking process that the
>element is activated.
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Well considering that the wall oven uses almost five times the power
that the toaster oven does and takes much longer to heat up, it's not
likely that the toaster oven would use more power when used for what it
would normally be used, and that wouldn't include cooking for long
periods of time.


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