cooking

Consider trading it in for a fan bake oven, it will cut your cooking time considerably, and make your cooking taste so much better :O)

Some things can take a long time to cook in the oven such as roast chicken, pizza.

If having hot rolls or garlic bread with your evening meal. Wrap bread in tinfoil and heat up on your tile fire or
pot belly. Be careful not to burn the bottom of it - turn over.

I did this the other day, and the children were fascinated: A pot of vege soup cooked on top of our Kent fire, and a loaf of garlic bread wrapped in tin foil placed inside the firebox on top of a new

On weekends I cook sveral things in the oven at once to save on power;eg a casserole, meatloaf and a bacon and egg pie all at the same time.

Let all that roasting hot air out after you cook in the oven! It's so much better than wasting all that heat behind a closed oven door.

don't boil 2 liters of water when you only want 1 cup of tea. Jugs are big power users.

Cook at a longer, lower temperature as apposed to a higher, shorter one. Slow cooking retains more of the nutrients in the food and transfers less heat to the air around it.

Pretty simple really - invite your friends and family around for meals. You are then only heating and lighting and cooking and powering one house instead of many.

Put a pot of soup or a stew on the woodburner in the morning - by the time you're ready for dinner it will be cooked. Pitta breads do well on the top too.