Beyond the Instant Pot's prowess for turning budget ingredients into toothsome food, these lil' cookers also use less energy than a wall oven.

We did the math to see how much you can save using an Instant Pot over a big oven. If you're still drinking bottled water, a filter pitcher and reusable water bottle will put money in your pocket.

If you're still drinking single-use bottled water around the house, or even outside of the house, it's time to kick that nasty habit. Saddle yourself with a reusable water bottle and a water filter pitcher and you'll eliminate loads of plastic going into landfills and clogging up the recycling systems.

You'll also save yourself some serious dough and have great-tasting water, to boot. If you're buying coffee at Starbucks or another coffee shop even once a day, the total spend over a year is astronomical. Luckily, coffee can be made at home for a fraction of what the chains charge and all you need is a good coffee maker and a steady supply of beans to make it happen.

We crunched the numbers to see exactly how much making coffee at home will save you in a year. Cocktail culture has exploded in the past few decades and with it the prices for vespers, sazeracs and sidecars on bar and restaurant menus.

OK, so you're going to need more than just a shaker to create bar-level cocktails, but almost nothing is as inflated as alcohol served in restaurants so, even with the cost of booze, mixers, bitters and glassware, you'll still be saving major moolah making happy hour at home.

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Even if it's just a coffee and donut, those little spends turn into big money over the run of a year. If you've committed to less takeout and making more of your food and beverages at home to save money, there are kitchen devices, cooking tools and delivery services that will pay for themselves in no time and start saving you real money over whatever expensive alternative is lurking just outside the door.

As part of CNET's ongoing We Do the Math series, we've analyzed several popular home appliances, including water filter pitchers, air fryers, rice cookers and coffee makers.

And we've seen how much each one could save the average person through regular use. Ready to save? Below you'll find the best kitchen tools, appliances and services for saving money, including the projected upfront cost and the potential savings for one year.

I drink a lot of seltzer, so this analysis hit close to home. I thought it would be near impossible to give up crushing cans of LaCroix and Polar, but the decision was made easy once I calculated the savings for using a SodaStream over buying 12 packs on the regular.

After the first year, you can subtract the device cost and the savings get even bigger. This all proved more than enough of a reason for me to kick the can. Even casual air fryer users know that these trendy cookers save time and hassle, and anything that inspires us to cook more and order less will save big bucks in the long run.

But you might not have considered how these countertop convection ovens can also save money on your energy bill. A typical air fryer uses far less energy than a big oven to operate, takes less time to preheat and cooks food faster.

By my calculations using New York's electricity prices, a standard four-quart air fryer costs 25 cents per hour to run. Rice is about as versatile as ingredients get. Top a bowl of basmati or brown with veggies and meat or a fried egg with some chili oil and you've got yourself a budget-friendly meal.

Former CNET editor David Priest caught the rice cooker bug during quarantine and did a breakdown of how much it costs to make a serving of rice at home. That means you can feed a family or group for pretty cheap if you start with rice and don't go too crazy on the rest of the ingredients.

And, if you already have an Instant Pot , it almost definitely has a rice cooker function. Some meal kit services cost about the same or less than buying the groceries yourself.