Are hot plates more efficient than stoves?
If you can do without a stove, yes, you can save some electricity by using a toaster oven. The hot plate is not such a slam dunk. The hot plate itself is no more efficient than an eye on the stove. They both in and of themselves convert electricity into heat at the same rate. But, you may have to have 2 going at one time to cook your meal. Again, that would be no different and no change in overall efficiency from the stove top. However, you can not normally plug 2 hotplates into the same circuit so you will have to be careful or you will trip your circuit breakers as normal circuits are not wired to have that much usage at one time. Hot plates normally are about the same size as your small eyes on the stove. The pro of that is you will almost never use a pot that is significantly smaller than the eye (that wastes a lot of heat) or, in other words, you will never be tempted to use the larger eyes for a smaller pot. The con of that is when you need a big pot, the smaller eye will take lo
