Energy Savings in the Kitchen: Pressure Cookers (2024)

The New Generation Pressure Cooker Experts

How to Cut Cooking Stove Energy Use

You don't waste food. Why waste energy by using inefficient cooking technology?

Here’s what we cover on this page:

• How much energy does it take to cook food using a cooking stove or range?
• New technology pressure cookers can significantly cut the energy used for cooking.
• Summertime air conditioner costs are lowered because of less heat generated.
• Modern pressure cookers save you money, help cut pollution and fight climate change.
• The new safe pressure cookers also save water.
• Other ways to cut your utility bill.
• Learn more about pressure cookers.

With the air conditioner off, have you ever noticed how hot your kitchen can get after cooking a meal in the summer? Give it a try. That heat is coming from your stove. The less the stove is on while cooking your regular meals, the less heat is generated, and the less it costs to cook. Because an efficient pressure cooker cooks food so quickly, your stove will be on less and generating heat for less time.

Cooking Stoves Use a Considerable Amount of Energy

You might be surprised to learn that the government department in Canada which tracks energy use, the Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), estimates that a cooking stove accounts for 10 percent

of an average (non-electrically heated) home's consumption of electricity! Most people don't give the energy used by their cooking stove too much consideration, but 10 percent is a significant portion of your energy bill.

If you look at the details of your electric bill, your utility company calculates how much you owe by determining how many kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy you use. Using a modern
pressure cooker can
reduce a stove's energy consumption by 70%! How does it work? A kWh is a measure of the quantity of energy used. With electric stoves, the energy utility determines how many kWh of energy you use by reading your hydro meter. NRCan puts the average Canadian household's consumption of energy at 775 kWh annually for their electric cooking stove. To get an idea as to how much energy this is, you would have to leave almost 1300 60 W light bulbs turned on continuously for 10 hours to use that much energy. You get billed for every kWh of energy you use. Gas stoves use even more energy than electric stoves—about 65% more or 1275 kWh/year—because their ovens aren't as well insulated and lose heat through the flue that exhausts the combustion gases from the oven area.

Using something as simple as a modern stainless steel pressure cooker can reduce energy consumption used by stoves for cooking by 70%! Pressure-cooking is the easiest and fastest green cooking method.

New Generation Pressure Cookers: Energy Efficient Cooking

Using a reinvented new generation fa*gor pressure cooker is the simplest, most cost effective way to cut food preparation energy waste.

The Office of Energy Efficiency along with many other government and private energy experts recommend using a pressure cooker in order to cut the amount of money you spend on energy. This is good advice considering today's high energy prices. New generation pressure cookers can reduce your energy consumption for cooking by approximately 70%.

Using a modern pressure cooker is one of the simplest, easiest, most convenient and cost-effective ways to save energy. Using a fast-cooking new generation pressure cooker saves energy due to its much shorter cooking times compared to ordinary cooking methods, but make sure the pressure cooker operates at a pressure of 15 psi (why?). If you use a gas stove, you'll get even greater energy savings compared to electric stoves since gas stoves use more energy. SAVING ENERGY cuts your utility bill, SAVING YOU MONEY.

The table above shows the huge energy savings when using a pressure cooker—79% less energy than a warped bottom ordinary pot and 68% less energy than a flat bottom pot to heat the same amount of water!! The low energy usage of a fa*gor Duo pressure cooker for heating the water is due to its flat tri-ply aluminum heat-spreading base and sealed lid. In addition, pressure cookers cook food TWO or TEN times faster than ordinary cooking methods. This significantly cuts the time that your stove is on—saving you money.

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New Generation Pressure Cookers Cut Air Conditioning Costs

The benefits of pressure-cooking don't end with lower cooking costs.

If you are cooking in the summer, your house or apartment stays cooler or your air conditioner works less because you are generating less heat from your stove when you quickly cook meals. The stove is on for a shorter time, thus heating up the house less than if it was on for a longer time. Air conditioners often consume one unit of energy for each three units of heat energy they remove from your house or apartment. They are not very efficient. When you use a new generation pressure cooker, you'll save even more money on your utility bill by reducing the amount of time that your air conditioning is on.

New Generation Pressure Cookers Cut Pollution and Fight Climate Change

The energy use reductions possible by using a new generation pressure cooker mean less smoggy air and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from your gas stove or from the power plants used to generate the electricity for your electric stove. Since electricity production is highly subsidized by the government, you might even see lower taxes (you never know).

There is widespread scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are irreversibly changing the climate. The science shows that this will lead to things like water shortages, food production problems, severe weather events, shoreline erosion and sea level rises. These events will eventually cause loss of life and property destruction. While giving you more free time because of its cooking speed, using a new generation pressure cooker saves energy and cuts greenhouse gas emissions. You can't get any better than that.

New Generation Pressure Cookers Save Water

On top of all the reasons above, pressure cookers use considerably less water than conventional cooking by boiling food. Take corn on the cob as an example—only 125 ml (1/2 cup) of water is necessary to cook it with a fa*gor new generation pressure cooker rather than getting litres of water to boiling temperature in a conventional pot. This is one of the lowest amounts of water necessary for any pressure cooker on the market. The 125 ml of water is put into the pressure cooker and the corn is placed on the included steamer basket and tripod and then the lid is locked into place. After three minutes at high pressure, tasty corn on the cob is ready to eat. Compared to ordinary cooking, you save water, save the energy to heat all that water to boiling temperature and save considerable energy in cooking the corn due to the shorter cooking time. This is a win-win-win situation. In addition, the corn is more nutritious as the vitamins aren't boiled away.

Other Ways to Cut Your Utility Bill

To save significant additional money on your natural gas, electric or oil bill, another simple but effective technology is a drainwater heat exchanger (also called drainwater heat recovery). A drainwater heat exchanger works by capturing the heat energy in shower water that normally goes down the drain. They are manufactured in Canada by ReTherm Energy Systems Inc. (www.retherm.com). You can save up to 60% on your hot water heating costs. They can be used for both residential homes and apartment buildings.

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