Five Inexpensive Cooking Tips to Save Energy
The kitchen may be the most energy-hungry room in the house. You may waiting and saving to buy more energy efficient appliances, but in the meantime try these cooking tips for everyday savings.
#1 Use the right size pan for the cooking job and make sure to match it to the right sized burner. It may sound silly but you can waste a lot of time and energy trying to boil a giant-size pot of potatoes on an itty bitty burner. And you can waste a tremendous amount of energy warming up a small pan of sauce on a giant burner. If you can see more than a half inch of overlap, either the pan overlapping the burner or the burner overlapping the pan, see if there’s a better fit.
Additionally, if you only have to boil three potatoes you don’t need to get out the giant 5-quart pot. And if you have to boil twenty potatoes, you absolutely do need a large pot with an appropriate amount of water – just enough to cover the tops so you don’t have to spend too much time and energy warming all that water.
