I’m trying to get an idea of whether it would be viable for us to upgrade our PV and switch from propane to electric for cooking.

Is anyone else cooking on PV-powered electric, and do you have a rough estimate of the kWh used for it?

  • swicano@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    I can’t look at the exact usage details day to day (and I’m not offgrid) but my electric stove, a Copper stove, has a 5 kWh battery in it and their marketing claims you can cook 3-5 meals during a power outage. Hopefully that’s a useful data point

    • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I was looking at that stove a while back but didn’t see any pricing at the time. Definitely interested since it could charge up and work separately from my main PV and not dip into its battery or draw a lot of current from it. I also like that it only needs 120v and gives you 220v performance because it makes up the difference from the battery.

      Guessing it’s going to be a tad on the expensive side, lol.

      • swicano@programming.dev
        3·
        6 hours ago

        I wish I had access to the state of charge stats or anything, cause ive always been curious how much of the battery it uses. all I can say is that it’s a decently nice stove, the oven is great, but that I wish they had made at least one ofthe induction pads large enough to fully heat a 12 inch skillet. They’re all the same size, I think 8 inch? So big pans are hotter in the middle, and the outer 2-3 inches are noticeable cooler and never boil. For that reason I don’t recommend it, given that its like 6 grand or something, gimme a full size induction coil

        • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
          2·
          6 hours ago

          They’re all the same size, I think 8 inch? So big pans are hotter in the middle, and the outer 2-3 inches are noticeable cooler and never boil … gimme a full size induction coil

          Oof, yeah that’d be a dealbreaker for me, too, with any cooktop.

          given that its like 6 grand or something

          Yikes. They didn’t come with an oven and cooktop attached, but I just spent 5 grand on a pair of 48v 16 KWh batteries (32 KWh total), so I guess I’ll just keep planning to use those to power my current range haha.