4.6 How to save energy
❖ Use proper cookware for cooking. Cookware with thick, flat bases can save up
to1/3 of electric energy. Remember to cover your cookware if possible; otherwise
you will use four times as much energy!
❖ Match the size of the cookware to the surface of the heating plate.
❖ A cookware should never be smaller than a heating plate.
❖ Ensure that the heating plates and the cookware are clean.
❖ Soils prevent heat-transfer. Repeatedly burnt-on spillages can often be removed by
products, which will damage the environment, only.
❖ Do not uncover the cookware too often (a watched pot-content will never boil!).
❖ Do not open the oven door unnecessarily often.
❖ Switch off the oven in good time and make use of the residual heat.
❖ For long cooking times, switch off the heating zones 5 to 10 minutes before you will
finish cooking. This saves up to 20% of energy.
❖ Only use the oven when cooking larger dishes.
❖ Meat of up to 1kg can be cooked more economically in a pan on the hob.
❖ Make use of the residual heat of the oven.
❖ lf the cooking time takes longer than 40 minutes switch off the oven 10 minutes
before.
❖ Make sure the oven door is closed properly.
❖ Heat can escape through spillages on the door seals. Clean up any spillages
immediately.
❖ Do not install the cooker near of refrigerators/freezers. Otherwise the energy
consumption increases unnecessarily.
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