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Showing posts with label kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen. Show all posts
Monday, 6 October 2014

Can a fridge and an oven be good neighbours?

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Surprisingly, the answer seems to be yes. In our kitchen the oven and fridge are built in side by side. The oven is a gas fan oven and as we...
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Thursday, 4 October 2012

Efficiency of different ways to cook potatoes

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In my book I reported on my experiments to see how much energy was used cooking potatoes either by boiling in a saucepan or baking them in a...
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Monday, 30 July 2012

Carbon emissions from freezing your garden produce

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Gooseberries, tomato sauce etc. store well in the freezer If you have an allotment or a large vegetable patch in the garden you probably...
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Monday, 7 May 2012

Do microwave ovens save energy?

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I used to think that cooking with a microwave uses less energy than cooking on a hob but in practice this is not always the case - it depend...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Food waste is a waste, even if we make it into biogas

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 I read recently about a second installation which will be injecting biogas generated from food waste into the gas grid for general use. ...
Monday, 3 October 2011

How much energy do you save by putting a lid on a saucepan

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Someone tried to tell me the other day that putting lids on saucepans doesn't actually save any energy. I had to admit that when I did m...
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Friday, 22 April 2011

Zero carbon tea

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A friend of mine asked for advice on how to run a zero-carbon cafe at a fair in Cambridge on June 10-11th. "Do you realise how much ene...
Sunday, 20 March 2011

Baking bread at home uses more energy

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My friends rave about home-made bread (I have a gluten free diet and, whatever they may tell you, gluten free bread is never as good). I won...