Esse Running Costs
How Much Does it Cost to Run an Esse Cooker?
With ever increasing energy costs, efficiency is important. Luckily, the Esse is designed to be efficient, with it's 'slumber' mode and induction hobs as standard.
Let's take a look at the running costs of Esse Cookers, using a standard UK energy tariff.
How Much Does an Esse Cost to Run?
Esse Cookers are designed to be 'always on'. Initially, you might think that means it would be less efficient - but the secret is in how an Esse cooks food.
The Esse ovens work best when they're saturated with some heat, and keeping some amount of heat inside the castings helps to reduce any chance of rust forming if they're turned on/off from cold.
Every Esse cooker will have a minimum 'slumber' setting. This gives you lower temperatures in each zone of the cooker, whilst still giving our gentle ambient heat (but not too much to overwhelm in the summer months!). With it's incredibly fast heat up times, pre-heating is a doddle..
There are customers who prefer to leave their top oven on constantly at a higher temperature, or their cast iron plate on a simmering temperature 24/7 for more heat into the room. This is perfectly fine, although the running cost will reflect the increase in lost heat into the room.
Weekly Esse Running Costs:
Based on a 27.03p per kW tariff (UK price cap for April 2025).
Running in slumber when not in use, with a period of cooking using ALL zones of the cooker for 1hr each day.
| Power Consumption | Running Cost | |
|---|---|---|
| Slumber (1hr daily use) | 42kWh | £11.52 per week |
| Slumber 24/7 | 34kWh | £9.18 per week |
Slumber settings:
85c in the Top Oven.
26c in the Bottom Oven.
30c on the Boiling Plate.
70c in the Bottom Left Oven.
Heat up times for the top oven to max 240c from slumber is approx 15 minutes.
Heat up times for the bottom oven to 175c from slumber is approx 15 minutes.
Heat up times for the cast hotplate to simmer from slumber is 8 mins, and to boiling in 15 mins.
