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| HOW CAN I SAVE ENERGY? |
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| COOKING |
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| How can you save energy while cooking? |
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| The key to efficient cooking is, understanding your cooking habits. |
| Here’s a 20 – 40 minute cooking recipe – tried and tested! Enough to cook a meal for 4 |
- Cut the vegetables, meat and fish and leave them to season
- Add curry powder
- Turn on the stove and commence cooking vegetables
- Wash the rice in the meantime
- Start cooking those that require more fire and proceed to those that require lesser fire
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Fry  boil cook curries cook greenery |
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Hit the right balance
Match cooking methods to the meal. Don’t use an oven to toast bread, a toaster should suffice. |
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Pair off the burner with the right pan
Over sized pans waste energy. A 6-inch diameter pan on an 8-inch burner wastes half the burner’s energy. |
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Avoid spilling flames
Gas flames spilling up the sides of the pots waste energy |
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| Keep lids on
Cooking without lids requires 3 times energy as cooking with lids on |
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Keep the stove top clean and shiny
Blackened burners absorb lot of heat. Keep them shiny to reflect heat to the cookware. |
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Use high-conductivity materials
For better heat conductance, use stainless steel cookware on LPG cookers |
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Use little water
Use minimum water to boil foods. Excess water requires excess heat to boil. |
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Don’t overcook
Overcooked food not only tastes awful, but also wastes energy. |
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Use glass and ceramic for baking
They can lower the oven temperature by 25 degrees |
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Keep the oven doors closed
Opened doors facilitate heat escape. |
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Keep preheat time to a minimum
The longer you preheat, the more energy it requires. |
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Modernise your food habits.
- Eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Less cooking means less energy wastage.
- Rice is better cooked in a rice cooker than in conventional pots. It reduces wastage. Cooking rice in pressure cookers too saves a lot of energy.
- Pressure cookers save 50 – 75 % energy than a rice cooker
- Microwave ovens require less energy and shorter cooking times than conventional ovens
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