How much energy a freezer uses, and what it costs to keep it running
A median freezer costs 90.33 euros a year in electricity, but two models in the same energy class can cost almost twice as much. We read 9,588 EPREL s...
A median freezer costs 90.33 euros a year in electricity, but two models in the same energy class can cost almost twice as much. We read 9,588 EPREL s...
Bosch Series 4, Bosch Series 6, or Siemens: three built-in freezers with eleven identical EPREL fields and a price that varies by up to 22.5%. We comp...
Built-in or countertop, which one is worth it? We read the spec sheet of 149 microwaves, not the product title: only 9 are genuinely countertop, and B...
We rechecked two twin Bosch and Siemens appliances today: in sixteen days one price rose 14%, under the same printed discount. The other genuinely fel...
Cleaning a microwave is not about looks: the manual puts it under a safety warning. We compared the Bosch manual with the support pages of the same ma...
The microwave is the one kitchen appliance with no energy label, and yet all the figures needed to work out what it costs are there: they are in the m...
The 25.5 centimetre turntable is the real ceiling of this built-in microwave, more than the declared volume. And the quartz grill, which combines with...
The watts written on the box are output power, not the power you pay for: an 800 W microwave draws 1,270, and the top level drops to 600 W on long coo...
On how often the activated carbon filter should be replaced, Bosch gives three different answers in three different documents, and the hood manual giv...
The number on the spec sheet describes the appliance, not the opening that has to hold it. We split 47,224 refrigerators and freezers from the Europea...
A chest freezer uses less than an upright only because it is bigger: at equal volume the two formats are equivalent, 87.8 against 89.8 kWh per 100 lit...
The months printed on frozen food packs only hold at 18 degrees below zero, and that is not a rule of thumb but a regulated value: 87.94% of the four ...