With World Oil Prices on a record high its but necessary to start thinking of ways to reduce your energy consumption. Was channel surfing through some cooking shows and one show in particular caught my attention because the chef mentioned that a sliced 30 cm thick piece of meet will take only 2 minutes to cook.
That’s about 1 minute per side in the frying pan. Imagine the time and gas savings you can incur by slicing your meat a little bit thinner. This way heat dissipates quickly into the meat. Another trick I like to do is to scar the meat, this way the heat can travel more quickly into the insides of the meat via the openings created by the scar.
So I took a gander at our menu and chopped off some dishes that took too long to cook. Basically anything that needs to be cooked in a pot or steamed consumes a lot of LPG because the element used to transfer the heat to the meat is in liquid form. I’m not saying that you stop eating this type of food altogether, but rather try to budget the food you cook with your available cooking energy.
Another thing we put into play because of the high gas prices is the strict closing of the LPG tank after cooking. When we tried this out before we were able to increase the time to buy a new LPG tank by a few days. Gas can leak slowly from the joints if not packed tightly. Sometimes old hoses have small holes in them that are hardly noticeable. So it would be good once in a while to check the condition of your gas hoses.
Considering that my city has one of the cheapest electricity rates in the country because 60% of our electricity is sourced from hydro electric plants, I’ve decided to experiment with using an electric stove to cook instead of LPG. Who knows it might come out cheaper because of the high cost of LPG right now?
Category: Energy Tips
