With Kitchen Appliances, Think Small
By Chris Baskind in The Daily Footstep
When it comes to saving energy in the kitchen, small is beautiful. Boiling water? No need to use an appliance that’s too big for the job. If it’s a small amount, your microwave is the quickest and most efficient way to go, not the stovetop. For bigger batches, consider an electric kettle. It will put more heat into your water and less into the surrounding room.
Most ovens are big enough to cook a four-course meal. That’s overkill for warming a few bagels or baking a batch of tater tots. Try a toaster oven. They’re inexpensive and will cook or brown small portions of pretty much anything you’d normally do in the oven.
For light mixing jobs or simple smoothies, handheld blenders hold their own with high-wattage, full-sized cousins.
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