{"id":111,"date":"2022-08-02T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T08:34:35","slug":"use-a-toaster-avoid-grills-toast-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/use-a-toaster-avoid-grills-toast-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Use a toaster, avoid grills where possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Energy Saving Tip 4<\/strong> &#8211; Using a toaster is more energy efficient than a traditional grill. Grilling food is generally healthy and a more efficent use of your electricity than a traditional oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>However, for simple cooking tasks <a title=\"toaster &amp; waffles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/toaster-waffles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/toaster-waffles-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"waffles for breakfast\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><\/a>where a toaster can do the job you will often save time, energy and and money when compared to powering up the grill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So before you turn on the grill on your cooker think about whether the toaster in the corner could do the job just aswell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For easy breakfast type meals such as waffles, toast even croissants the toaster is the perfect companion. A traditional grill in an oven is far larger than is needed and will grill areas where there is no food, what a waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newer eco-friendly toasters have additional functionality which allows further combined use of the heat they produce. For example some toasters now have a rack above the main compartment where a croissant or pastry can be placed to gently warm whilst your waffles or toast are cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geishabot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">love\u2661janine<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Saving Tip 4 &#8211; Using a toaster is more energy efficient than a traditional grill. Grilling food is generally healthy and a more efficent use of your electricity than a traditional oven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-energy-efficient-toaster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housingenergyadvisor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}