Cost to run an air fryer in Louisiana (August 2026 rates)
At 12.87¢ per kilowatt-hour — Louisiana's average residential price in August 2026 — running an air fryer costs $16.22 a year. That is 29% less than the national average of $22.88. Louisiana's residential rate is up 2.5% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $15.81 to $16.22 a year.
- Per hour
- 13.5¢
- Per day of use
- 5.4¢
- Per month
- $1.35
- Per year
- $16.22
Assumption: 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year — 126 kWh a year. A 5-quart basket model, roughly 25 minutes of cooking a day. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Louisiana compares
Louisiana pays 12.87¢/kWh, the 2nd cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $6.67 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same air fryer costs $16.03 a year in Nevada and $59.45 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $43.42 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 12.72¢ | $1.34 | $16.03 |
| Louisiana | 12.87¢ | $1.35 | $16.22 |
| North Dakota | 13.31¢ | $1.40 | $16.77 |
| Utah | 13.31¢ | $1.40 | $16.77 |
| Idaho | 13.37¢ | $1.40 | $16.85 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an air fryer.
What else costs about the same in Louisiana
Cutting the number down
- The saving is not the wattage, it is the volume: a small cavity reaches temperature in two minutes instead of twelve.
- Cooking two batches back to back skips the second preheat entirely.
Questions
- How much does an air fryer cost per month in Louisiana?
- About $1.35 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 12.87¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?
- Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Louisiana has the 2nd cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $22.88 a year.