Top 9 Cooking Tips To Help You Save Energy Effectively

Cooking at home can’t be helped especially if you particularly love to cook your own food and you have a big family to feed. However, this doesn’t have to mean huge electric bills. Here are some tips for you to enjoy your time in the kitchen without worrying about the bills at the end of the month.

1.      Match Your Pot Size To The Coil Size

Using a small pot on a large coil means wasting 30%-40% of electricity, plus putting a lot of extra heat in the house which makes your AC unit work extra harder to keep the house cool.

2.      Use The Right Appliance

If you’re only cooking one little potato, using your oven for that would be generating too much energy. So always cook with the device that is most suited for what you’re cooking and how much you’re cooking.

3.      Check Your Reflectors

You probably think that those metals “drip trays” underneath your stove are only there to catch spillovers from whatever you’re cooking. However, that’s not all they do. They also reflect the heat back up to the pan or pot. This means if they’re way too covered with previous drips, they can’t do this second amazing ability which helps you save energy when cooking. So clean them often and when they no longer reflect effectively despite being clean, time to replace them.

4.      Use Your Oven Effectively

Aside from food items like cookies which you have to poke with a fork to check for gooiness, others can be checked without opening the oven. All you have to do is use the light to look at your food so that you don’t waste all that heat in the oven.

5.      Consider Cast Iron

You can cook on a lower heat setting with cast iron than you can with nonstick or stainless steel cookware, thus saving you money. If you get a piece of cast iron cookware, simply try cooking the same way you did before, except lower the heat down one or two notches.

6.      Pre-Measure Your Water For Boiling

Boiling water doesn’t seem like it will cost you much but think about all the excess water that you boiled and the extra energy it took to boil all those. So, in order to save water and energy, measure the water you’re going to boil so that you’re boiling exactly the amount of water that you only need.

7.      Cover Foods While Cooking

If you don’t already know, food cooks faster when you cover them while cooking. Aside from that, this also eliminates heat being introduced in your home which requires extra work for your AC unit to cool the house.

8.      Cold Brew Coffee Or Tea

A great way to save money and still start your day with a cup of coffee or tea is to cold brew it. Just take a French press, fill it with water, put ground coffee or a tea bag in it for the next morning, and let it brew on your counter overnight.

9.      The Pasta Principle

Whenever you’re cooking pasta, rice, oatmeal, or other grain, you don’t actually have to leave the burner on the whole time to cook them. Just turn off the burner after only boiling for a few minutes and put a lid on the pot. The grains will absorb the residual heat and soften up.

If your electricity bill didn’t budge despite your energy-saving efforts, it’s possible that your electricity provider raised their rates again, they had another “system error”, or you have a faulty meter. If these problems seem to be popping up all the time, you should seriously consider switching to a different energy provider.

You don’t have to settle with an electricity supplier here in Singapore that doesn’t meet your needs and money’s worth when you can always find a better one with the help of BillCheap. All you have to do is type in how much energy you use and your average monthly bill, and then you’ll be able to compare energy deals from different provider in order to get the best one for you.