Cut the cost of cooking
Find out which cooking methods are the most energy efficient, to save you money in the kitchen and help the environment.
Home cooking is always going to be cost-efficient compared to
eating out, but you might not realise that up to 15 per cent of
electricity used at home goes on making hot meals. So, as energy
costs remain high, there's a greater incentive to cut down on the amount of
electricity we use. Careful energy use will help reduce greenhouse gases,
too - another good reason for finding fail-safe fuel savers.
How your energy use stacks up depends on the type of fuel you use. Only 10 per cent of built-in ovens and grills are gas, yet gas ovens heat up faster and can be three times more energy-efficient than electric. The best gas ovens have an electric fan to help distribute heat evenly.
You can save electricity by cutting the power before and after cooking
Electric fan ovens use around 20 per cent less energy than a standard
electric oven and have a shorter warm-up time. Either way, you can save
electricity by cutting the power before and after cooking. You don't need
to preheat the oven if you're cooking for longer than 30 minutes, and
you can turn off an electric oven 10 minutes before the end of the
suggested cooking time, leaving enough heat to finish the job. Just be
careful with cakes, which need precise times and temperatures.
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