sharing food to reduce energy

my second day of experiencing low electricity

cooking food was a big challenge for my flatmates and I. There are four of us and the way in which we were cooking led to the waste of energy and time. Additionally, we don’t have a large space in our kitchen to cook all together at the same time so we were messing everywhere. To solve this problem, we made a decision to cook our food based on a schedule and specified a day in a week to each person to cook for all and share the food with others to reduce our energy-consuming.

In this case, we can save more energy and money because we are students and we have limited time for cooking. Before this decision, sometimes we needed to use electronic oven and microwave at the same time, which means that we had the wrong energy-consuming pattern because microwave uses about 600 to 1000 Watts electricity per hour on average.

Using a microwave for 15 minutes per day will use about 6.1 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month and 73 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.

not only sharing food helped us to reduce electricity consuming but also helped us reduce the amount of food waste