Reduce Utility Bills

If you have kids or live alone, you may find your stove (and kitchen) are getting heated up for small items. There are two ways to deal with the electricity or gas that is used by the oven for pre-heating and cooking.

1. Buy a toaster oven
2. Cook several things at one time

Using a toaster oven reduces energy costs the following ways:

• Less time needed to pre-heat a toaster oven
• Smaller area to heat
• Doesn’t heat up kitchen

The toaster oven can be used for single slices of pizza, small portions of frozen items (french fries, fish, chicken nuggets), frozen meals, and single servings of deserts.

Toaster ovens are affordable due to the popularity of microwaves. Find a permanent place on the counter for the toaster oven, it will be used more often if it doesn’t have to be pulled out.

When using the oven for larger items like a full size pizza, baking cakes, cassaroles, and other items that don’t fit into the toaster oven, fill the oven up. You can even cook a second set of items right afterwards since the oven is already hot and you won’t have to use the electricity or gas to pre-heat the oven. Freeze the extra food to be warmed up in the toaster oven or microwave at a later date.

The cost of a toaster oven and well planned use of the oven will help reduce utility bills.