Surface Cooking
Use lids when surface CCloking. A lid traps {team and uses It to speed up the cooking process. If you have a pressure cooker or vegetable steamer, use it. You’ll uaste fewer vitamins. save time and cut cnerg)’ costs.
Use medium weight, flat bottomed pans. Pick pans made of a metal that con- ducts heat well.
Thau, I’roLen foods before cooking.
! Never use the range to heat the kitchen. UsinS your range
~ACAUTION~without utensils or pans to absorb the burner’s heat risks damaging the xurface and the controls.
Oven Cooking
Preheat the oven onI>,when a recipe tells you. Put roast{ and casseroles into a cold oven. then. turn the oven on.
Glance through the L indou in the oven door to check on foods. Opening the oven door frequentl~~to chech on foods waste\ energy.
U\e the oven to prepare complctc meals. For instance. $tart a roast. add vcgctable$ when the meat IS half cooked. then ~4arm rolls or dessert after the main dishes are coohed.
Make It ;I habit
Energy Saving Ideas
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