Useful extras
November 03, 2009
Strike while the oven is hot
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
Challenge yourself to make your oven do double duty the next time you bake, and save energy in the process. Some ideas:
• If you’re baking a casserole for dinner, put in a potato that you can eat for lunch the next day.
• Rather than bake batches of cookies in sequence, arrange your oven racks so that you can bake three trays at once.
• Once you turn off the oven after cooking your entree, use the residual heat to gently warm tortillas or rolls.
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We love to bake potatoes when the oven is hot and fry them the next day in olive oil until they are crispy. They are the best.
I wonder what the cost/savings ratio is for purchasing a smaller toaster oven. I’d probably use it instead of the microwave for heating frozen dinners.
When i baked cookies last night, i also put in a chicken for tomorrow!!!!!
Saves time and energy.
When you are done baking, if it is winter, open the oven door and let the hot air help heat the home instead of trapping it inside the oven.
Really makes room to cook more items