Really TRUE odd factoids
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Jameshow
Veteran
You only use it once a year for one portion of Christmas pudding!!
Petrichorwheels
Senior Member
Must admit i thought something like that. Ie five mins of clock can't surely use as much power as five mins of cooking? And don't microwaves have wattage power figures?
But over to @classic33 though he may be busy cooking his tea on his garmin at the mo.
classic33
Leg End Member
Drummonds Mill.
One of the first mills l visited when l moved up to Yorkshire.
I had a plan of the mill and needed to visit every nook and cranny of it over a couple of days. On the plan there was a place named 'Top cellar'.
Well l looked and looked and could l find it? I could not. There was a cellar of course but no other cellar above it. Or below it.
I gave in and asked a bloke wandering by where it was, because l had been everywhere and only found just one cellar.
He looked at me ...
'Nay yer daft bugger. It's the top cellar. The cellar where we keep tops.'
Wiki: Wool top, a semi-processed product from raw wool. The process requires that the wool be scoured (washed) and combed and sorted. The longer fibers resulting from the process are called tops, and are in a form ready for spinning.
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classic33
Leg End Member
Another offcumden!!
That's paywalled for me. I've just checked the spec on our Panasonic 800 watt Model. Standby power is 0.87 watts so the claim doesn't hold up.
roley poley
Veteran
- Location
- leeds
Mr tight Loiner ,old hippy ,Yorkshireman, granddad, me, is always saying to his family unplug it 'cause it's still burning your brass on standby and of no use . . . do they listen ?? pah!!
rikki
Legendary Member
- Location
- Limestone Coast, South Australia
So every thousand hours it uses 870 watts.
8,760 hours in a year x 870/1000 = 7,621 watts per year.
Enough to run at 800 watts for 9.5 hours.
Or approximately a minute and a half every day.
There would be some people who use their microwave a lot less than 10.5 minutes per week.
Thank you,
I’ve been thinking along very similar lines myself overnight ( strange how your mind can wander in the early hours )
We use it for porridge, reheating soup, and as my wife likes her coffee scalding hot 😮, I “ nuke” her percolated cup of coffee for 30 seconds.
Petrichorwheels
Senior Member
Question, in these energy conscious times. If you switch off at the plug after every cook i assume it will spring immediately back to life as a cooker on restoration of power? No set-up issues? All progs immediately there? Timer function ready to go?
As folks can maybe tell i don't have a microwave at the mo. Plenty of clocks though.
As folks can maybe tell i don't have a microwave at the mo. Plenty of clocks though.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Yes. the clock will be set at midnight, unless you bother to reset it - but then who really relies on their microwave as a time piece.
Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
Me
. We have 3 "clocks" in the kitchen, a proper wall clock, the one on the cooker and the microwave and they all usually have different times on them. The cooker is most accurate, the wall clock is slow and the microwave is fast.