I do a good deal of baking – especially pizza. A pizza takes 20 to 25 minutes to cook, depending on the method I use which these days is usually an iron skillet. Another popular baking item is zucchini bread now that zucchini is growing prolific in my garden. This endeavor takes 55 minutes to bake.
Now that energy costs are rising I’m always looking for ways to save but not give up my lifestyle. One way I found was to turn off the oven during the last few minutes of baking and let it coast. No degradation of taste or quality has been noticed. So every 10th pizza doesn’t cost me a dime to cook.
When I pan cook food, such as an egg in the morning, I apply the same cut-and-coast technique. After I flip the egg off goes the stove (it’s electric so it has residual heat) while I butter my toast and pour my juice.
This may be a minor incident but small things add up. Now only if work were at the bottom of a hill…
