Oven use. How often do you use yours?

Ours seems to be on pretty much every day.  Do others use theirs as much?

Not every day but 4 or 5 times per week.

Since we got an air fryer (which I was sceptical about beforehand), we maybe use the oven once per week to do a pizza or something large. Before that it was at least every other day. The air fryer cooks quicker and uses less electricity, so I’m a convert!

Probably 4 evening meals per week. Maybe some daytime baking a bit too. So likely 5-6 uses per week or so.

4-5 times a week at a guess.

Since we got an air fryer very rarely. Oven only goes on for pizzas or meat too large to go in the air fryer, so maybe a couple of times a month.

Exactly like steezysix – an air fryer has massively reduced our oven use. We maybe use the oven once a week.

Four or five times a week sounds a little right for me too. That’s not counting the grill, which is also in there

I tend to use the hob more than the oven. So probably once or twice per week.

Air Fryer (actually a multi cooker) took us from 5 or 6 days per week to maybe 5 or 6 days per month

Only on a Sunday for a roast. The rest of the week it’s redundant due to the air fryer, which gets used most days.

The slow cooker is very much in play again now the days are shorter and it’s getting colder.  It’s casserole weather 😀

Also an air fryer convert, smaller, quicker, cheaper. Of course, as mentioned above, calling it an air fryer is just marketing gump, it’s a really handy mini oven. Only 3 of us in the house though, for larger families might not be as useful.

No air fryer, but probably 4 times a week. Normally for pizza’s, roasts, cakes and random crap for the kids like chicken nuggets.

Ours is used most days, often more than once. 2 late teen males in the house who seem to try and consume their body weight in cooked chicken!

I use one of them nearly every day to warm plates before serving up dinner.

another I use 3-5 times per week for cooking.

but they’re not huge great ovens like we had on our range cooker before I ditched it for two ANOVA precision oven 1.0s. Great little things. Though I see they’ve now been deprecated and replaced by a fancier, more expensive version with ‘AI’. https://anovaculinary.com/pages/anova-precision-oven

Air fryer here, so probably less once per week average.

I use one of them nearly every day to warm plates before serving up dinner.

Is it not more efficient to chuck them in a microwave for a bit?

I use my oven most days, I love cooking 🙂

Now and again as it costs money.

made a stove from scrap metal in the garden. use cardboard and waste wood and toys to run that and cook stuff for nowt.

so outside cooking like James Martin and chefs on telly.

My main oven maybe once a fortnight and I gave away my air fryer as wasn’t using it, my microwave though gets used daily for heating up ultra-processed ready meal garbage from the supermarket…

We’ve an oil-fired Aga – heats the house, the water and because it’s on 24/7 it’d be a waste not to use the oven/hot-plates.

Used every single day, more than once.  Cooking, mostly from scratch, and warming up food previously cooked/frozen etc.

Obviously plates/dishes are all warmed beforehand.

But based on the way the UK’s eating habits are going, how often do other folk actually cook, rather than just warm-up bought in products?

Those above with the air fryers, can you cook from scratch with one?

Probably use the hob more than the oven 4 to 3 days

The large oven probably only gets used 1 day per week and the small oven (air fryer) the other 2

Oven gets used a couple of times a week. Most small oven type stuff is done is the air fryer like others above. Oven mostly used for pizzas or if the daughter is baking. Most cooking is done on the hob.

Still need a proper oven though. Couldn’t get by with an air fryer alone.

I’m not convinced by the TCO of an air fryer. The only measured power use I can find is this one

Are air fryers more energy efficient than an oven or microwave?

Suggests it saves 10p per cook of something that needs over an hour, so you need to do over 1,000 meals before you break even.

Those above with the air fryers, can you cook from scratch with one?

The name ‘air fryer’ is a bit of a misnomer as it’s basically just a small, compact (more efficient?)  oven. We cook everything from scratch. If you can cook it in an oven, you can cook it in an air fryer

Oven – Fri, Sat, Sun. We don’t really ‘cook’ in the week due to passing ships lifestyle. It’s mainly eating frozen curry/chilli leftovers.

Microwave every day – just to heat up and defrost.

Hob – pretty much every day.

If you can cook it in an oven, you can cook it in an air fryer

In the last few days I’ve used the oven for bread, muffins, a tart, a pasta bake, and slow cooked ribs. Can you honestly do those in an air fryer?

I’m a non air fryer person, And this is not me trying to be contrary, but genuine question!

4-5 times a week just for bread and probably the same for meals/other baking. Makes the kitchen nice and warm on bread days.

There’s a lot of different things that are tagged as an “air fryer”.

I have a Ninja Multi Cooker, which I use most days. The most common mode is “steam air fry”, it cooks a perfect roast chicken in around 30 minutes.

Since getting the Ninja I have only used the oven to cook a turkey at Christmas, I do use the smaller side oven to store and warm plates and carving trays.

Maybe a few times a month, but I use the convection oven function on the microwave 3 or 4 times a week.

It’s basically a better oven than the oven, which heats up a lot quicker.

Can’t justify an air fryer as well as that. But why didn’t they call it “the funcooker”?

But based on the way the UK’s eating habits are going, how often do other folk actually cook, rather than just warm-up bought in products?

We cook probably 80% of all our meals from scratch (the kids have a thing for frozen chips or it would be higher).

In the last few days I’ve used the oven for bread, muffins, a tart, a pasta bake, and slow cooked ribs. Can you honestly do those in an air fryer?

We regularly make muffins in our air frier – using this recipe.

Air fryer household. Oven is turned off, last used a few months back to cook a big lasagna. I would say on average it’s now used once every 2 months (expect it will be used a couple of times at Christmas).

a lot less since i moved to a bread machine for my fresh bread addiction  which seemed like a better use of my limited counter top space than an air frier

but 3-4 times a week.

had it on for 4 hours the other week on a sunny sunday for the Xmas cake.

we are uncouth – we dont warm plates…. but this made me chuckle.

Is it not more efficient to chuck them in a microwave for a bit?

In the last few days I’ve used the oven for bread, muffins, a tart, a pasta bake, and slow cooked ribs. Can you honestly do those in an air fryer?

Yes. At the end of the day it’s just a small compact oven. The name ‘air fryer’ is a bit misleading.

Now I’m back to baking bread the oven is on probably 2-3 times/week, but there’s only two of us at home most of the time (although two of our daughters were on a one-night flying visit last night so the oven was used for bread and an apple crumble).

We have an air fryer [6L] which definitely earns its keep and is the go to for some things, but we still use the ovens for baking, casseroles and larger meals.

If you can cook it in an oven, you can cook it in an air fryer

Not true really.

(casseroles, bread, slow cooked meat and meringue have all been cooked here in the last week and couldn’t be done in an air fryer)

Hob use is most common. Oven 2-3 times a week, always a Sunday roast when the kitchen is like the centre of a nuclear reactor, especially when the Yorkshire puddings go in. Air fryer once or twice a week – depends on meal size/what’s cooking. Jacket spuds still best in oven !  Very rarely use the grill.

casseroles, bread, slow cooked meat and meringue have all been cooked here in the last week and couldn’t be done in an air fryer)

I tend to default to the slow cooker for casseroles and slow cooked meat. It’s chicken and bacon in cider and mustard going in shortly for this evening 😀

Air fryer convert here, I was sent along to Argos a few weeks ago to get it, I grumbled, complained and procrastinated for ages before finally doing as I was told.

My smart meter display thingy tells me it uses half of the amount of energy as my oven, and it cooks much quicker, so is burning electricity for less time. My kids often ignore the meal plans and just cook what they want when they get in from school, so oven could go on twice a day. Now it is used 2-3 times per week max.

The only annoying thing is that Mrs S was right, again, and I should have listened to her sooner, again.

Oven use is massively less since getting an Air Fryer (well, Ninja multi cooker)

warm plates in the microwave, obviously. Anyone using an oven just for that clearly doesn’t have a smart meter 🙂

Sage multi-cook/air fryer AND both offspring moving out leaves Oven use maybe once a month. Use the gas hob mostly for steaming Veg. Almost everything else gets done in the Sage. I am tempted by a pressure/slow cooker but still traumatised from the explode-y noises than came from my Mum’s back in a 1970s kitchen!

I am tempted by a pressure/slow cooker

the Ninja is also both of these things! Haven’t used the pressure-cooker function but “steam roast” is a similar concept and awesome (except stuff comes out crispy!). Use the slow-cooker function all the time. Definitely cut down on worktop clutter!