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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Quick Cooking Tip

(this is so not my kitchen, but a girl can dream can't she?)

  • Did you know that you don't *need* to preheat your oven for most things? Unless you are cooking bread or pastries or souffles you shouldn't need to preheat.
  • Guess what else works? Turning the oven off 10 minutes before the food is done. The residual heat will keep the food cooking. Just don't open the oven to check on the food - use your oven light to look in at the food.
  • When you are cooking something be sure to think of what else can be cooked at the same time because most things can be cooked at slightly different temperatures so you can put more than one dish in the oven at a time.
How do you save money and energy when using your oven?

This post was submitted to Life as Mom's Frugal Friday Mr. Linky. If you have never checked this out please do - lots of great tips.

24 comments:

  1. I have found that if I really DO need to preheat for something (such as crunchy stuff), it heats much faster using the broiler. It works great!

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  2. What a brilliant addition to the tips! Thanks Lenetta!

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  3. Great tips / ideas. Thanks for sharing

    ~stopping by from SITS to say welcome

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  4. Okay. Gotta remember to turn off the oven 10 mins. before the food is cooked. Thanks for the tips. Welcome to SITS!

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  5. Great ideas... it's totally true that preheating isn't always necessary... Thank Goodness cause sometimes it's all I can do to turn it on!

    Stopping by to say hello from SITS... hope you have a great week!

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  6. What great ideas!! I also use my crockpot a lot more in the summer so I don't have to turn on my oven!!

    Stopping by from SITS!

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  7. Welcome to SITS!!
    Great tips on the oven! WHo knew???

    I'm all about the frugal thing..so you have another follower!!

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  8. My husband never preheats the oven. It drives me crazy. Ha!

    Welcome to SITS! We're happy to have you.

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  9. Welcome SITSA'S!I am not sure how you all found me and visited about the same time, but that's OK it made my day!

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  10. I do all three of those things :) I also have an oven / grill function on my microwave so that if I'm doing something for just me, I don't have to heat up a huge oven space (because I don't always want to cook an oven-full of stuff).

    Dropping in to welcome you to SITS :)

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  11. Welcome to SITS! Love your tips! When finished with my oven, I turn it off & leave the door open to heat up the kitchen. No use wasting that heat!

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  12. Thanks! Had no idea (honestly)!

    welcome to SITS

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  13. I didn't know that about the oven preheating. I'll have to give it a try!

    Stopping by from SITS to say welcome!

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  14. Every time that I try to not preheat the oven my food always burns on the bottom. Crazy!

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  15. Thank you so much for the great tips! I'm going to implement them while cooking dinner tomorrow. :)
    I'm stopping by from The Secret is in The Sauce to welcome you to the SITSahood!

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  16. Great hints. I will definitely take your advise. Every penny counts...

    WELCOME to SITS! It's great to have a new SITSer. Bonus, I'm hosting a giveaway for NEW sunglasses. Like most yours are lost or bent...come on over.

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  17. I never thought about turning off the heat before! What a great money and energy saving idea. Thanks for the tip!

    Stopping by to welcome you to SITS

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  18. So, all those times when I forget to preheat and just throw it in anyway- I can say I was saving energy? I love it!

    Stopping by to welcome you to SITS!

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  19. I'm stopping by from The Secret is in the Sauce to say welcome to the community - we're glad you joined us!

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  20. You know, Christy, that COULD be your kitchen....

    I just sayin.....

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  21. These are great tips! I never preheat my oven, usually because I forget until I am ready to put the food in. LOL!

    Welcome to SITS! It's great to have you in the SITStahood!

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  22. Bwhahahaha "to market" if only I *knew* someone who worked in the Kitchen Remodel Industry......
    love ya!!!

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  23. I'm so glad you said that is not your kitchen! Not that I don't want you to have one so nice, but rather because it saved me from the (deadly) sin of envy!!

    I have also experienced some burning on the bottom of things, but I don't notice much difference in most things when I don't preheat.

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