Energy saving cooking

[bubblewrap]

Try using a slow cooker it uses about the same as a 60 watt light bulb.

[Two_Sheds]

I have always been tight with the leccy.
A microwave saves you a lot of fuel. We cook in big batches, and freeze into individual servings.
We have stir frys in summer, and soup in winter. A soup will cook in about half an hour (do a big pan and leave it on the stove for people to dip into, or freeze it ... it improves with age!)

We only put the oven on for a big roast, and that's maybe once a fortnight. The roast will provide 4 meals (chicken curry, chicken stir fry etc)

For my packed lunch I have leftovers from the night before. Cold stir fry is surprisingly tasty!

[Birdie Wife]

I use my pressure cooker a lot for meals which use dried beans/chickpeas etc. It also does venison casseroles brilliantly. Rather than defrost meaet from the freezer in the microwave, I try to think what I'll have for dinner in the morning and take the meat out of the freezer to defrost it through the day so it's ready. I recently changed my cooker and we have a very energy efficient one - well the oven is, but not the hobs! I also have a solid fuel Rayburn which is on over the winter and uses free fuel, but the temperature in the oven and on the hob is next to impossible to control.

[diana]

We have recently bought a bread maker, its not the same as bread cooked in the oven but it is cheaper to run the only problem we find is a slight taint which we do not like anybody know what it could be ie the flour

[areia]

i dont have a microwave or a pressure cooker and i have one of those induction hobs for which 2 of the rings have blown up and its not that old either, so i batch cook use a steamer for veg do my cakes after instead of heating a cooker up before hand, also a lot of people dont actually switch off there cookers at the mains, ive takenen to doing this every time now