My mother, bless her heart, has always been an excellent homemaker and had all sorts of nifty little tricks. One of her sayings was always that you weren’t finished baking until you had cleaned up, and the dishes weren’t done until you had wiped down the counters and the stove. My college roommates weren’t as [...]
Entries Tagged as 'stove'
How to Clean your Stovetop and Oven, the Simple, Safe, Frugal Way
August 25th, 2009 · 37 Comments · Cleaning, Frugality, What to Buy
Tags: baking soda·Cleaning·green cleaners·oven·stove·stovetop
Monday Mission: Conserve Energy with your Oven/Stove
August 24th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Avoiding Waste
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make a conscious effort to conserve energy when cooking and baking, and make it a habit that lasts longer than this week. Impact Ratings (What is this?): Level of Commitment (What is this?): Baby Steps Check out last week’s Food for Thought on energy use in [...]
Tags: conserving energy·energy use·oven·stock/broth·stove·tips
Food for Thought: How Much Energy do we use in the Kitchen?
August 20th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Food for Thought
As stewards of creation, conserving energy is one way to treat our Earth with care. (This also translates into lower bills, which stewards our budget at the same time, of course.) In the kitchen, the stove is a major energy drainer. Did you know that 26% of the energy used on “food” in America is [...]
Food for Thought: The cost of using your kitchen’s appliances
March 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Avoiding Waste
I’ve asked you this week to think about your energy usage in the kitchen. This includes oven, range-top, microwave, toaster oven, lights (over your sink, your stove, ceiling lights, etc), refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, garbage disposal and hot water from the tap. Clearly some of those are going to be bigger energy-drainers than others, but we [...]
