PENSACOLA - Bald is the house with aromas of roasted turkey, sweet potatoes and pecan pie than the traditional start of the holiday season begins with Thanksgiving cooking filled.
This is also where the kitchen appliances are pushed to overtime meals, ready to share with your loved ones.
While for holiday celebrations preparation, reminds Gulf Power customers, the extra food, activities and people at home can cause your energy bills to go, especially if equipment oven and do not work -stop.
"The new kitchen appliances today use 50 percent less energy than the built only 10 years," said Rick DelaHaya, spokesman for Gulf Power. "However, if rolled vacation time around, can increase your energy costs often used as family members with stove, oven and dishwasher overtime and the refrigerator door open to clear treated hides. "
There are many ways to reduce energy costs to a minimum holiday. Here are to spare no cost money and energy in the kitchen some ways - and be grateful for saving on your energy costs in November:
If you expect a large group of people for dinner, turn the thermostat a degree or two before guests arrive. Otherwise, as people can generate heat wasted space overheat. Check to make sure the refrigerator and freezer doors that they are tight. This will prevent cold air and warm air out. To test, connect on a dollar bill the refrigerator door. If you simply fit the bill, or worse, if it falls themselves, the door should be adjusted or the seal must be replaced. Planning and remove all the ingredients together. Every time the door of a refrigerator or freezer is opened, the compressor has to run a little longer to replace cold air currents. When the regular oven preheat for cooking time preheat time carefully. Five to eight minutes should be enough. preheat no need for broiling or roasting. avoid when frying or baking frequent progress checks involved opening the oven door. Each time the door opens, a considerable part of the heat loss from the furnace and the temperature to within about 25 degrees lower, the energy and waste increased cooking time. Cook your food as possible into the oven at a time. Foods with different cooking temperatures can be cooked simultaneously at a temperature often - still produce 25 degrees Fahrenheit variations in each direction and energy saving good results. Use a "tapas" approach to cooking. potted tight fitting lids help keep the heat, which reduces the temperature levels and shorter cooking times. If, on the top of its range cooking, the size of the pan to the heating element fits. More heat to reach the pan and less is lost to the surrounding air. A section of six inches in a burner waste eight inches more than 40 percent energy. If liquid cooking with the highest values of the temperature begins to reach the boiling point. Then the settings reduce heat control and allow food to cook until fully cooked. After dinner ready and started cleaning allows hot foods or liquids before placing them in the refrigerator to cool. The period of reflection should not affect the taste of food and reduce the load on the refrigerator. Throw away the raw food diet, which has been held for more than two hours at room temperature. If all the cooking is done, do not use the oven self-cleaning cycle, unless a major cleaning job required. Clean up spills and splashes minor with a damp cloth. If the self-cleaning oven is used, start the cycle right after cooking while the oven is still hot, or wait until late hours of the night when power consumption is low. Gather all in the kitchen of a cost-effective way to save energy by washing dishes by hand manner. If this is not possible and used to wash the dishwasher full loads. If it is necessary to wash the dishes before loading, cold water use only if you do not run your electric bill is heated unnecessarily by water. Do not forget to use the energy-saving cycles whenever possible. Dishwasher have to dry air capacity or setting overnight up to 10 percent of your energy costs save crockery.
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