Save power in Your Kitchen

When you are washing dishes by hand, fill one basin with warm soapy water and the other with cold rinse water. This uses less water than leaving the water running while rinsing. If you don't like this idea, use a sprayer to rinse the dishes. Get one that shuts off with a spring-loaded valve. When I advise to my wife that she should only rinse the inside of the pots and pans she squirts me with the sprayer. Do not pre-rinse dirty dishes before hiding them in the dishwasher. If you have to rinse the dishes before loading them into the dishwasher, use cold water. Hold off running the dishwasher until it is full.

Turn off the heated drying cycle switch. Let dishes air dry. If your dishwasher does not have a switch, turn the control knob "Off" after the final rinse. Prop the door open a bit, so the dishes will dry faster. Check the by hand that came with your dishwasher to find the maker's recommended water temperature. Many have heating elements that allow you to set your home hot water heater to a lower temperature. 115 to 120 degrees is good.

Save Energy

Microwave ovens are great energy savers. Microwave ovens use only one-fifth as much energy as accepted stoves. Microwaves are by far the most sufficient way to cook small portions. I think that they are great for production hot snacks in the winter. Food cooks faster and uses less energy, when located on the outer edges of a rotating tray rather than in the center of the microwave.

Food cooks faster and uses less energy, as the outside to volume ratio increases. What do I mean by that? If you spread food out in a thin layer it cooks faster than if it is in a thick lump in the middle of the microwave. While hot weather, using the microwave reduces heat build up in the kitchen reducing the load on your air conditioner.

When using a gas or galvanic oven try to cut the whole of times you open the oven door. Each time the oven door is opened, it looses about one fourth of its heat.

Match pot size to burner size on your stove top. Heat is lost and energy is wasted if the burner is bigger around than the pot. Clean range top burners and reflectors to best reflect the heat to where it can be used. Put a lid on those pots. Lids hold the heat in and save energy.

On galvanic stove tops use flat bottom pans to make full taste with the heating elements. If you cook with an galvanic range, you can turn Off the burners or oven before the cooking is finished. It takes some minutes for the heating elements to lose their heat. Recovery water and energy, while you are in the kitchen is good for your cash flow and good for the environment.

If it helps promote energy independence, I can preserve that too. When we each shave a microscopic off our energy bills, it is good for the environment and good for our economy. It is nice to have good side effects while holding cash in your pocket.

Save power in Your Kitchen