What gadgets for saving money while cooking?

[RiderGirl]

Looking at our electricity bill 😡 and scowling at our electric cooker/oven I'm wondering if there are any appliances that will work out cheaper to cook things. I already have a microwave and a slow cooker, and have read about things like Ninja multi cookers - but can you cook things like lasagne or cottage pie in them, and get the same result as an oven??

You can cook anything in a Ninja! Inever use my oven anymore. It cooks faster too, so lower energy usage.

Watching witj interest i bought a Ninja dual airfryer, which we use daily instead of the oven.

Slow cooker
Halogen oven
Air fryer
Microwave

We have all 4 and they're much cheaper to run than our fan assisted electric oven.
Can cook anything. Without using oven.

Air fryer is much cheaper than an oven but you need to fit things into it. I don't think ours would fit a cottage pie or lasagne, we'd use the oven for those. But for jacket potatoes, oven chips as a side, roast vegetables, sausages, chicken wings, it works well. Or single portions/2x child portions of beige oven meals (nuggets and smiles etc) I think it cooks things better than an oven in general.

Well a new appliance will take some time to get back its original cost in reduced electricity.

When using the oven and hob there are ways to reduce energy usage. If using the oven make an extra lasagne or cottage pie to pop in while your already using it, that you can then reheat in the microwave another day. If you do any baking time it to go in the oven the same time as you are using it anyway.

For the hob, use the right sized pan for what you are cooking and for the hob plate. Use saucepan lids. For new potatoes lid on, bring to boil, turn off but leave stood on the hob. Perfectly cooked potatoes in 20 minutes without 20 minutes of hob use. Just don't keep lifting the lid to see how they are doing as the heat will escape. Or add a steamer on top of a pan you are already boiling, twice the cooking for the same electricity (but will need continuous heat to make the steam). Cook two or more veg on the same pan, rather than several pans.

Small changes but it all adds up and no extra outlay.

I'm a pretty proficient (in fact, shit hot!) cook and do all these things anyway, it's not what I was asking.

Ninja multi cooker! Bloody brilliant!