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Range

A range burner is a surface element. High on a large coil or radiant ring can be 1,500–3,000 watts. Low simmer is a fraction of that. The cost is almost entirely how long a burner stays on high versus how long dinner actually needed it.

Two burners at once add. A griddle that covers two zones is two zones. Induction still uses real watts; it is often faster to the pan, which can mean fewer minutes, not zero energy.

The oven below the cooktop is a separate card in Whatt. Do not double-count a roast as “the range.”

Set the burner size and minutes. Fine-tune watts if you know the element rating from the label.

At 18.8¢ per kWh, a 2,000-watt burner for 30 minutes is about 0.19. An hour of a large element on high is about 0.38. Small compared with central heat or AC, easy to see on a week of long sautés.

If the cooktop is gas, this is the wrong card. Use Gas stove so the heat is fuel in the total, not a 40-watt igniter pretending to cook dinner.

Not this card

Gas cooktops are Gas stove. The oven under the burners is Oven if it is electric.

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