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Cost to run a rice cooker in Tennessee (July 2026 rates)
At 13.71¢ per kilowatt-hour — Tennessee's average residential price in July 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $5.76 a year. That is 25% less than the national average of $7.69. Tennessee's residential rate is up 3.8% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $5.55 to $5.76 a year.
- Per hour
- 3.8¢
- Per day of use
- 2.9¢
- Per month
- 48.0¢
- Per year
- $5.76
Assumption: 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year — 42 kWh a year. Full draw while heating, then a low-power keep-warm hold. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Tennessee compares
Tennessee pays 13.71¢/kWh, the 5th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.93 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same rice cooker costs $5.34 a year in Louisiana and $20.16 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $14.82 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 13.12¢ | 45.9¢ | $5.51 |
| North Dakota | 13.41¢ | 46.9¢ | $5.63 |
| Tennessee | 13.71¢ | 48.0¢ | $5.76 |
| Idaho | 13.73¢ | 48.1¢ | $5.77 |
| Nebraska | 13.78¢ | 48.2¢ | $5.79 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.
What else costs about the same in Tennessee
Cutting the number down
- Keep-warm is a small draw that runs for hours. Switching it off once the rice is done is the only real lever here.
Questions
- How much does a rice cooker cost per month in Tennessee?
- About 48.0¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 13.71¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a rice cooker use?
- Roughly 42 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.28 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Tennessee has the 5th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $7.69 a year.