Just realized my air fryer uses more electricity than my microwave

I was looking at my electric bill last night and saw a spike from last month. I got curious so I looked up the wattage on my air fryer, it's like 1500 watts. My microwave is only 1100 watts. I found this chart online that broke down cost per use and running the air fryer for 25 minutes costs about the same as the microwave for 10. Kind of makes me think twice before preheating it for every little thing. Anyone else ever checked their air fryer's power draw and got surprised?

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gavin_reed1mo ago

My old toaster oven draws more than both of them combined, never thought to check until now.

the_sam1mo ago

Man, I learned that lesson the hard way when I tripped a breaker making toast and running the microwave at the same time. Now I just plug the toaster oven into its own outlet or at least unplug the coffee maker first. Saved me from blowing a fuse during the morning rush more times than I can count.