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Show ENERGY savi;;g ivaysi With OVENS Cooking complete oven meals is economical and energy-efficient. According to home economists from Whirlpool Corporation, a large percentage of the oven's energy is used just to heat up the interior to the temperature required to cook a food item. So it makes good energy sense to try to cook as many things as possible at one time in the oven. SIP urn The home economists advise ad-vise that a little preplanning can go a long way toward helping to cut your oven's energy cost. For example, oven recipes with temperatures temper-atures of plus or minus 25 degrees can be cooked together to-gether . . . baking in glass or ceramic pans whenever possible also allows you to reduce the oven setting by 25 degrees. To prevent energy ener-gy being wasted, be sure to arrange the oven racks the way you want them before the oven is heated. Avoid preheating the oven most oven dishes do not need it and for those that do, ten minutes of preheating is sufficient. suf-ficient. Also take advantage of the left-over heat from the oven to warm plates or rolls. |