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IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS, Continued
VENTILATING HOODS
Clean Ventilating Hoods Frequently
Grease should not be allowed to accumulate on hood or filter. When flaming lk_ods mrder
hood, turn hood fans on.
ENERGY-SAVING IDEAS
Surface Cooking
Turn surface elements off belore cooking is completed. Tire units will stay hot long
enough to finish the cooking process.
Use lids when surl]tce cooking. A lid traps steam and uses it to speed up the cooking
process. If you have a pressure cooker or vegetable steamer, use it. You'll waste fewer
vitamins, save time and cut energy costs.
Use medium-weight, flat bottomed pans that match tire sizes of the elements. Pick parrs
made of a metal that conducts heat well.
When cooking on a surlitce element, use as little water as possible to reduce cooking time.
Never use the range to heat the kitchen. Using your range without utensils or pans to
absorb the element's heat risks damaging the surlitce arrd the controls.
Oven Cooking
Preheat tire oven only when a recipe tells you. Put roasts and casseroles irrto a coM oven
and then turn the oven on.
Opening the oven door often to check on lk_ods wastes electricity.
Use the oven to prepare complete meals. For instance, start a roast, add vegetables when
the meat is half-cooked, and then warm rolls or dessert after the main dishes are cooked.
Thaw frozen foods belk>recooking. Thawed lk>odrequires less cooking energy than fi'ozen
l_,._d.
Make it a habit to turn the oven off belk_re you remove tire cooked lood fi'om it.
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