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Cost to run a rice cooker in Florida (August 2026 rates)
At 14.99¢ per kilowatt-hour — Florida's average residential price in August 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $6.30 a year. That is 17% less than the national average of $7.63. Florida's residential rate is down 2.2% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $6.44 to $6.30 a year.
- Per hour
- 4.2¢
- Per day of use
- 3.1¢
- Per month
- 52.5¢
- Per year
- $6.30
Assumption: 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year — 42 kWh a year. Full draw while heating, then a low-power keep-warm hold. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Florida compares
Florida pays 14.99¢/kWh, the 15th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.33 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same rice cooker costs $5.34 a year in Nevada and $19.82 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $14.47 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 14.82¢ | 51.9¢ | $6.22 |
| North Carolina | 14.95¢ | 52.3¢ | $6.28 |
| Florida | 14.99¢ | 52.5¢ | $6.30 |
| Arizona | 15.05¢ | 52.7¢ | $6.32 |
| South Dakota | 15.15¢ | 53.0¢ | $6.36 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.
What else costs about the same in Florida
Cutting the number down
- Keep-warm is a small draw that runs for hours. Switching it off once the rice is done is the only real lever here.
Questions
- How much does a rice cooker cost per month in Florida?
- About 52.5¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 14.99¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a rice cooker use?
- Roughly 42 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.28 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Florida has the 15th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $7.63 a year.