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Cost to run a slow cooker in Delaware (August 2026 rates)
At 18.70¢ per kilowatt-hour — Delaware's average residential price in August 2026 — running a slow cooker costs $17.95 a year. That is 3% more than the national average of $17.43. Delaware's residential rate is up 11.0% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $16.18 to $17.95 a year.
- Per hour
- 3.7¢
- Per day of use
- 29.9¢
- Per month
- $1.50
- Per year
- $17.95
Assumption: 200 W, 8 hours a day, 60 days a year — 96 kWh a year. A 6-quart cooker on low. Eight hours at 200 W is less energy than one hour of oven time. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Delaware compares
Delaware pays 18.70¢/kWh, the 19th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 51.8¢ more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same slow cooker costs $12.21 a year in Nevada and $45.29 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $33.08 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 17.20¢ | $1.38 | $16.51 |
| Virginia | 17.64¢ | $1.41 | $16.93 |
| Delaware | 18.70¢ | $1.50 | $17.95 |
| Illinois | 19.32¢ | $1.55 | $18.55 |
| Ohio | 19.38¢ | $1.55 | $18.60 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a slow cooker.
What else costs about the same in Delaware
Cutting the number down
- Long and low is genuinely cheap: the whole point is a small element holding a well-insulated pot, not a big element fighting a big cavity.
- Lifting the lid to peek costs 15 to 20 minutes of added cooking time each go.
Questions
- How much does a slow cooker cost per month in Delaware?
- About $1.50 a month, assuming 200 W, 8 hours a day, 60 days a year at 18.70¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a slow cooker use?
- Roughly 96 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.20 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Delaware has the 19th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $17.43 a year.