Practical Environment & Energy Savings

SusanCarter

se999 wrote:

Same goes for lots of shopping, it's surprising what we hide in the cupboard under the sink, or in the garage etc., When we tidied & then did a routine of checking before buying it saved us money and stopped us buying useless duplicates. Defininately fulfilling the 'reduce' idea.

:T

It's good to remember "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order. Reduce means minimising loads of things e.g. packaging, waste, energy used in the home, car journeys etc etc.

twobob_2

Try this one, turn your gas oven off ten minutes before you are due to remove the food. The radiant heat in the oven will keep the food cooking for that last ten minutes and you wil not notice the difference.

Every little helps.

Whoosher

and another along the same lines as Twobob's - turn the iron off a few minutes before you finish the load. The plate's still hot enough to get the creases out, but you're not using the electricity.

pdoff

twobob wrote:

Try this one, turn your gas oven off ten minutes before you are due to remove the food. The radiant heat in the oven will keep the food cooking for that last ten minutes and you wil not notice the difference.

Every little helps.

i turn it off while am sorting plates etc then leave door open so the heat warms the kitchen. not a great cook & not much time so usually only cook stuff that takes 30 minutes max - would 20 mins then turning it off still work? i tend to use microwave more for dishes where i just throw lots of stuff in together!

twobob_2

Perhaps in that case switch off 5 minutes before (just do it as a percentage thing and apply common sense). Keep the door closed throughout though.

Ken68

I dry cook veg in the microwave, taters and carrots mainly, 5 minutes early am (economy 7)then reheat later(1 minute). To cook and eat straightaway is 10mins.

SusanCarter

Ken68 wrote:

I dry cook veg in the microwave, taters and carrots mainly, 5 minutes early am (economy 7)then reheat later(1 minute). To cook and eat straightaway is 10mins.

I guess the reason for that is that when you microwave, it continues to cook after the microwave has finished. That is why officially you are meant to let it stand for as long as you have had it in the microwave for. I guess most of us are too impatient and end up cooking it for longer so we can eat it straight away.

Ken68

I put back into the trolley or nearby waste paper container all the excess packaging.
EVEn the sections of newspaper I don't read, like fashion and jobs, so much so that try not to buy newspapers, get 'em at the library.

fender

There was a good selection of such tips on You and Yours today on Radio 4. You can use listen again to hear them from Penny Poyzer.

twobob_2

Try tearing a piece of kitchen roll vertically upwards and just tearing half off when it will do the job. Your other half stays on the roll ready for use.