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Cost to run a slow cooker in Ohio (August 2026 rates)
At 19.38¢ per kilowatt-hour — Ohio's average residential price in August 2026 — running a slow cooker costs $18.60 a year. That is 7% more than the national average of $17.43. Ohio's residential rate is up 10.4% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $16.85 to $18.60 a year.
- Per hour
- 3.9¢
- Per day of use
- 31.0¢
- Per month
- $1.55
- Per year
- $18.60
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 Ohio compares
Ohio pays 19.38¢/kWh, the 17th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 18.70¢ | $1.50 | $17.95 |
| Illinois | 19.32¢ | $1.55 | $18.55 |
| Ohio | 19.38¢ | $1.55 | $18.60 |
| Wisconsin | 19.41¢ | $1.55 | $18.63 |
| Maryland | 21.40¢ | $1.71 | $20.54 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a slow cooker.
What else costs about the same in Ohio
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 Ohio?
- About $1.55 a month, assuming 200 W, 8 hours a day, 60 days a year at 19.38¢/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?
- Ohio has the 17th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $17.43 a year.