Proper raw food, save cooking
A salad with lettuce, no need to cook, but also reduce vitamin C and other nutrients lost due to heating.
However, not all vegetables and fruits are suitable for raw food, such as beans containing soy saponins, which must be destroyed by heating before they can be eaten, otherwise, gastrointestinal problems will be caused. There are also vegetables with large amounts of oxalic acid, such as spinach, amaranth, etc., and should not be eaten raw.
Thaw and cook
It will save a lot of time and gas power than to directly drop the pot to cook frozen food. If it is not time to move to the freezer to thaw slowly, microwave oven can be used to quickly handle it.
Before frying, frying and roasting, try to drain the water. For example, when frying fish, wipe the fish body and then put it into the pot. Before using the cooking utensil and kettle, the water and moisture in the bottom of the pot and pot should be wiped dry. Because the excess water to evaporate, need to consume some heat energy, extend the cooking heating time.
The refrigerator is only seven minutes full
According to the statistics of foreign environmental protection groups, on average, one third of the food we buy is not eaten, but thrown away. And the food that hasn't been eaten is turned into the gas that causes the earth to warm after entering the landfill.
If the family has a small population and does not open up every day, buying small packaging food in different times can keep fresh and avoid waste. And the amount of food cooked each time should be as good as possible when the meal is finished.
The refrigerator is only 7% full, and it is cleaned once a week to see if there is any food that is about to expire. Cook it quickly.
Cook together
When using the oven, put a variety of food in the oven at the same time, and save energy at a time. Or when cooking food in water, only one pot of boiling water is cooked. Various ingredients are boiled in the order of first scalding vegetables and then meat and seafood. They are cooked once. Neither water change nor hot water is needed to boil again.
In addition, the cooking time can be shortened by covering the cooking pot, and the cooking time can not be reduced.
Smart use of energy saving cooking utensils
Some cookers can cook multiple foods at a time, such as multi-layer electric cooker or steamer, can cook rice or stew chicken soup in the lower layer, and steam steamed bun, steamed bread or hot dish at the same time on the upper layer, which saves power and is convenient.
The use of "steaming" instead of "boiling" can save water on the one hand and keep more nutrients on the other hand. Because the water boiling process will let nutrients into the water. If you can boil the eggs with steam, spray the three toilet paper wet, spread them on the bottom of the electric cooker, and then put the washed eggs on them. Steam them for about 6 minutes. After the electric cooker jumps up and simmers for a few minutes, you can easily complete the "steamed eggs".
Mix multiple cooking methods
When frying fish, do not fry the raw fish directly in a pan, but first put the fish in the oven to be roasted to half cooked, bake some fish oil, and then move to the pan. No need to refuel. Fry the fish with a little fire, and soon it will be fully cooked.
In this way, it is not necessary to burn gas all the time, and it will not cause the failure of frying fish, such as fish skin sticking to the pot, burnt outside and not cooked inside, etc.
Heating with natural solar energy
Hot summer sun is a good free energy source, such as heating water, pouring raw water to be burned into a kettle or metal pot. After closing the lid, put it in the sun for hours, raise the water temperature, and then move to the gas stove to burn the water, which can shorten the time of water burning.
Use suitable size cooker
The bigger the pot, the more energy consumption. The size of the pot should be moderate at home, and the four people's food does not need to use the eight person large pot.
In addition, when using gas, the fire should not be opened too much. If the flame is too large to exceed the bottom edge of the pot, it will not help much in heating, but will waste gas. Remember to clean the gas stove regularly, to avoid oil dirt accumulation and plug the fire hole, so that the firepower is weakened, cooking time is prolonged, and gas is consumed in vain.
