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Saving energy, every little helps
By chris dalby | September 14, 2007
I was reading an article this morning while on the library written by Richard Ehrlich in last weeks Saturday times magazine. He was looking at the 3 main ways for cooking sausages:
1. Frying pan 10 -20 minutes
2. Grill 10 - 15 minutes
3. Roasting 20 -40 minutes
These are all ways that we are familiar with for russling up a tasty banger. The problem is, that we get into habits of doing things the same, passed down from parents, habit and lazyness or comfortableness.
His point was that sausages can be cooked in frying pan with a lid on the pan using 3 minutes of cooking time and 2 minutes of residual heat cooking at the end with the stove turned off. Plus pork can be eaten slightly pink nowadays.
So we’re looking at a minum saving of 7 minutes cooking time. Sounds like nothing, but imagine if this caught on and became the new way to cook sausages. Imagine how much electricity would be saved if adopted World over.
You could apply this concept to boiling the kettle - only fill up a mugs worth of water when boiling. Saves water and minimises electricity required to boil less water.
This pricinciple is the same as turning off your production servers when you don’t need them, like at night and over the weekend.
September 17th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Those look like Polish sausages to me. Mmmm…