Electric Oven/Cooker Savings

· To save money on electricity, when using your cooker, the pots and others items should sit flat and snugly fit the element to avoid heat loss. Also note using a small pan on a large burner wastes energy. Cookware with flat bottoms and tight covers is by far your best choice.

· When you are boiling water, etc. fill only enough water in the container as needed. absoutely never boil water in an open pan. Water will come to a boil much faster and use less energy in a kettle or covered pan.

· Avoid allowing food to spill on drip pans and elements. If this happens clean it as soon as the element is cool.

· Although often recommended, it is not really necessary to preheat an oven for foods with a cooking time of more than one hour. Using glass pans allows you to set the oven 25 degrees lower since glass will retain heat, and this is an effetive way how to reduce energy use.

· Keep elements and oven clean to conserve electricity. Where only small portions of food are to be cooked,  microwave ovens, toaster ovens and electric frying pans are way more efficient and will conserve and save electricity.

· If you use a conventional oven, avoid "peeking" by constanly opening the oven door. Each "peek" can lower the oven temperature as much as 25°C. Just cook by time and temperature. When you are roasting, use a meat thermometer to prevent under or over cooking and excess shrinkage. Use a timer to time all cooking operations. Timing will prevent the loss of heat through repeated openings of the oven door.

· When preparing a meal in your oven use foods that are cooked at the same temperature to conserve electricity. That way you can cook several dishes at the same time and not waste valuable energy dollars.

· When cooking with electricity, do get in the good habit of turning off the burners several minutes before the allotted cooking time is one way how to save. As the heating element will stay hot long enough to finish the cooking and not use more electricity.

· Use the high heat setting to bring water to a boil or to start cooking your foods with water, but then reduce the heat to desired lower setting.

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