How to Green Your Kitchen Oven

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Comment by Joste on June 11, 2009 at 6:47pm

Turning the oven off early is a great idea, however preheating is required for some foods, bread for example needs the oven to be hot when it goes in to kill the yeast and add some 'puff' in some cases.Roast meat can benefit from initial heat too to seal it. We happen to have a very bad electric oven and can tell when it has reached temperature with the thermostat and it takes forever to heat up, roll on the day when we get the gas one installed.

You could also think about utilising the otherwise wasted heat on an inefficient oven - e.g. for bread set it on top for the final rise, or live somewhere cold where any extra heat in the house is a bonus.

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