How to reduce CO2 emission while preparing food
Dec 25, 2015
An electric cooker should be kept clean - especially hotplate
Dirt makes it difficult to flow heat between the hotplate and a pot
Use the pots with flat bottom. It's easy for heat to flow between
the hotplate and the bottom of the pot. The best one are those
with aluminium or copper bottom
Cover the pots while cooking. It helps to save the half of the energy used for preparing food as well as it reduces
the amount of heat evaporating from the pot.
Pressure cooker is the best choiceIt receives the temperature more than 100C so it shortens
the time of cooking and reduces energy consumption
Cooking can be finished when the cooker is off.
The hotplate is still hot what helps to save the electricity flowing
through it for a few more minutes
While using the oven remember not to open it too many times.
Limit it. Every opening causes that heat escapes to the
atmosphere
Defrost your food earlier. Avoid using microwaves.
Take the food out in the evening, put it to the fridge or leave
it on the table
Bake responsibly!While baking a tart why don't you reuse a heated oven and bake
an apple pie? You will save up to 50% of gas or energy
Turn off the cooker or the oven
a few minutes before the dish is ready. Use the remaining heat
to finish your cooking
To save energy while cooking, cut vegetables into small pieces. When you are about to cook vegetables or steam them first boil water
into kettle than on the cooker, and just use the needed amount of water
Use less water. If you only boil the amount of water you need, you will save a lot of energy. If every European boiled the amount of water they needed,
everyone would avoid unnecessary boiling 1 litre of water a day, and saved energy would be enough to light one third of all the street lamps
in Europe