This is the first episode of Wattage you eat?... a series that outlines different meals that we cook on our sailboat, Harmony as we venture off-grid. In this...

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in the world like most travelers I love

to cook but my newest adventure has

taken me somewhere where energy is a

commodity so I'm gonna start a new

channel it's called wattage eat today's

episode of why did you eat is cooking

quiche on a boat so we're gonna measure

using this kilowatt device to see how

many watch me use and I'm gonna be

sauteing some spinach mushroom and

garlic over here before I bake my quiche

and I'm tiny toaster oven oh all right

stop kilowatt meter is set at zero plug

in I'm burning it says that he's drawing

seven an hour and 55 watts

instead it's zero right now two kilowatt

hours we'll just watch that

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toaster oven pre-heated and looks like

the kilowatt meter is that 0.24 kilowatt

hours and if we look over here at this

wattage meter it says that we need room

Oh point four four kilowatt hours that

means if we were to run our wind turbine

which we haven't yet put up but once it

is up if we have 20 mile an hour winds

we would have to gather energy for just

over two hours to be able to push the

car keys here which isn't too bad

well my keys turned out delicious and I

ended up I didn't some garlic toast to

it so when it was all said and done it

ended up taking an even 0.5 kilowatt

hours so just a little bit more over the

to our estimate for 20 mile an hour

winds with our 1/1 hello hello welcome

to what a jiggy hello well it's been a

fine episode of what did you ate this is

this oh this and this are devices that

we will use on our following episodes

this measures AC wattage this measures

DC 1 inch this I can put directly on the

battery in line with the power inverter

in between that way we were actually off

the grid and cooking on a battery

we know our actual battery consumption

and the inefficiency of the power

inverter and it'll help us decide if we

should try to cook on a 12-volt system

or if we'd stick with a 120 volt

appliances we have now but it will also

help us to get the exact get a good shot

of this guy yeah

plugs right in the line with the battery

and the power inverter handles up to 100

amps so hundred amps is 12 volts it'll

do 1200 Watts and it rewards the hours

too yeah

you can negate using this if you are

able to generate a hundred and twenty

volts save you had 120 volt turbine but

nobody has those everything's twelve

volts so let's get a generator

we did it on our first episode it is a

voyage it's a voyage off the grid yeah

we're not there yet but we hope you

enjoyed watching this first episode of

water to eat we'll see you next time we

have tons of plans and the works

you