On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 8:24:43 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> I was chastised the other day by a friend of a friend for using my oven. I
> said that I liked to use it a lot in the winter for baking and such because
> it helped warm up the house and that meant I could often keep the heat off
> when it was on. She told me that it is very costly to run an electric oven
> and that I shouldn't use it. Told me if I didn't believe her to go look at
> my meter next time it was on. I can't see that would help me as I am not in
> the habit of looking at my meter so don't know what it does to begin with..
>
> Anyway... Is there any truth to this? This person has told me a lot of other
> things that were wrong.

Your electric meter records the kilowatt hours that your house is consuming.. Reading your meter one time won't tell you anything about your consumption except give you the starting point. After that, you can read it after some days or weeks have past to give you your electricity consumption.

You can then find the cost by multiplying the kWh by your cost per/kilowatt hours. It will probably be around $.12/kWh. My guess is that you would use about 30kWh a day i.e., $3.60 a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQQCtKLZpwQ