Crockpots can be used to cook pretty much anything-lasagna, soup, potatoes, stews, and casseroles.

The energy used over the five hours you might leave a dish to ... read full tip

Crockpots can be used to cook pretty much anything-lasagna, soup, potatoes, stews, and casseroles.

The energy used over the five hours you might leave a dish to cook in a crockpot is less than one-quarter of the energy consumed by an electric oven.

Per week, if you replace one meal cooked in an electric oven with a meal cooked in a crock pot, you could save nearly $10 per year in energy costs-just from the cooking. You'll save even more energy during the summer months when the oven isn't heating up an air-conditioned house.

If 10 percent of all U.S. households replaced one electric-oven-cooked meal per week with a crockpot-cooked meal, the energy savings per year would total nearly 900 million kWh-enough energy to bake a crockpot meal for every person in China.

Source

California Energy Commission