Watt & WhiskCountertop appliances, costed per use

Small appliances

Running costs

Energy, consumables and the cost of a year of use.

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White compact food processor on a wooden table, clear bowl fitted with chopping blade and feed chute — A compact processor with its blade and feed tube in place, the basic set-up most models share.Photo: Donovan Govan. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

White compact food processor on a wooden table, clear bowl fitted with chopping blade and feed chute

Running costs

What a food processor actually costs to run

Electricity is pennies a year. The machine spread over the uses you get from it is the real number, and it swings by a factor of ten on how often you use it.

Updated 11/3/2026 · 9 min

Photo: Donovan Govan. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons