Tips from enthusiasts
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 sheets and compared three Bosch models actually for sale to see what really drives the bill.
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 manual. We ran the nu...
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 European registry by instal...
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 litres between 200 and ...
Nobody states how many years a fridge lasts. What the law does put in writing is something else: how long it stays repairable. We read the 56,511 records of the European ...
Almost every fridge on display carries an E, and the sector looks stuck. We read 62 Bosch and Siemens EU product information sheets: 39 models declare an efficiency index...
The official BSH spare parts list is public and holds 875 part numbers with a price next to each one. The components that fail first are under 20 euros, while the control...
From 1 January 2027 the energy label on tumble dryers carries one more letter, and it is not about consumption but about how easy the machine is to repair. We read the fo...
A dishwasher uses exactly the same number of kWh and litres on every cycle, full or half empty: all that changes is how many plates come out. Filling it halfway exactly d...
Since 1 October 2026 a kilowatt-hour costs 43.43 cents including taxes, against 31.63 in the previous quarter. Five appliances in an ordinary household go from 233.84 to ...
A 71-litre built-in oven declares 0.69 kWh per cycle in fan-forced mode and up to 0.98 kWh in conventional mode: between 22 and 31 cents per bake. Small figures, and that...
A drying cycle costs between 30 and 44 cents. What changes your year-end bill is not the model, but how many times you press that button: from the information sheets of e...
The kilowatts listed in the manual are the installation's maximum capacity, not consumption. Normal cooking uses between 0.1 and 0.5 kWh, and a year of cooking between 18...
Two technologies compared: consumption, drying time, fabric care and price, to understand which dryer makes sense for your habits.
The complete guide to the new energy label: the A-G scale from 2021, the numbers that really matter, and how to use the EPREL QR code to compare.
A refrigerator consumes 100-300 kWh per year, that is 25-75 euros. Here are the consumption rates by class, what really makes a difference and how to spend less without r...
In Eco mode a dishwasher uses 0.5-0.9 kWh and 6-12 litres per cycle, less than hand washing. The real numbers, annual cost and how to keep it low.
A washing machine uses 0.4-0.6 kWh and about 50 liters per Eco cycle. Here are the real numbers, what it costs per year and how to reduce spending without sacrifices.
