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My bread machine officially paid for itself today (startrek.website)
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Made my 50th loaf of bread today in the bread machine. Store-bought bread averages about $2.50 a loaf, so 50 loaves would be $125. Bread machine cost $100 and I figure the flour and other ingredients for those was well under $25.

Here's to 50 more loaves of fresh baked bread.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Costs about 17 cents per loaf in electricity, and my power rate is pretty high at $0.25/kWh.

  1. Blend: 7 minutes @ 100W (0.1 KW x 0.12 hours = 0.012 kWh). I'm being generous here since this is just an intermittent blend and the motor pulses slowly and doesn't use 100 watts for the whole cycle).
  2. Rest: 1 minute @ 0W
  3. Mix: 25 minutes @ 100 W (0.1 KW X 0.42 hours = 0.042 kWh)
  4. Proof 1: 58 minutes @ 50W (0.05 X 0.97 hours = 0.05 kWh)
  5. Proof 2: 50 minutes @ 50W (0.05 x 0.83 hours = 0.04 kWh)
  6. Bake: 50 minutes @ 650 W (0.65 x 0.83 hours = 0.54 kWh)
  7. Keep Warm: I never use this, but up to an hour at probably 100 watts. (0.1 KW x 1 hour = 0.1 kWh)

Total: 0.684 kWh x $0.25/kWh = $0.17 per loaf ($0.20 per loaf if I use the keep warm feature for the full hour).

For comparison, the regular oven is 4400 watts and takes 10 minutes just to pre-heat. That's $0.18 cents in electricity cost before I even bake the bread.

[–] debris_slide@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for doing the math. That’s really interesting. If we don’t count labor costs, electricity makes up about 40% of the cost of a loaf of bread. However, if you didn’t have a bread maker and just used your oven, it would take much longer to recoup your investment. I love how efficient that machine is.