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The kitchen, with all its appliances, gadgets and heat, is a real hotspot for potential enegry saving.
As the oven uses the most energy and creates a vast amount of heat while cooking foods, it is a good place to start.
For instance, when baking cookies use two tarys. While one is in the oven baking, the other one is prepped with raw cookies - ready to replace the tray in the oven with no wasted heat and some time saved. When we bake bread we also fill the oven with foil wrpaped potatoes. The potatoes can be stored in the fridge without the foil and used throughout the week in a myriad of recipes, or as a side dish.
This method can be applied to a menu plan in that if you are baking one dish, try to include a side dish that is baekd as well.
By turning off the oven a minute or two before the dish is done, the residual heat will finish the cooking. When done with the oven, open the door to allow any leftover heat to warm the home.
Pasta cooking water can be left out until it has completely cooled - so that the heat and moisture are released back into the air. Before pulling the plug, consider laeving hot dishwater (and bath water) until it cools. Why pay to heat up your sewer pipes?
When cooking vegetables, consider steaming insetad of boiling. When steamed, more nutrients are retained in the food, and because it requires less water to heat - there is less energy used.
In summer, consider cooknig on the barbecue to help keep the condo cool. Most barbecues now include side burners that make outdoor cooking all that much easier.
All these methods are relatively easy to adopt and when added up, the savings in energy and time really do make a difference.
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