energy saving tips???

[cmonstanley]

use margarine in the frying pan to cook pancakes.they cook twice as fast..

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Neil

How do you know it actually works? You would need to monitor the power used with and without it to know properly if it is worth buying. Lots of discussions on the net about them being a load of tosh.

I bought mine from QVC about 13 years ago.
I think it was still working when I stopped using it last December, because the frozen food stayed frozen, and the little red indicator light on it (which tells you when it is doing the saving/reduced current) still lit up intermittantly.
I am considering starting using it again, now that I have been reminded by this thread.
Before I go to the trouble, I would like to read the criticisms of it that you say you found on the web, and please advise me how I can check that it is actually saving money.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

and please advise me how I can check that it is actually saving money.

You need a KW/h meter to plug your fridge into to check before and after.

[AccyLass]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

use margarine in the frying pan to cook pancakes.they cook twice as fast..

Yeah, but ....... do they taste as good?!

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Neil

You need a KW/h meter to plug your fridge into to check before and after.

I don't have access to a KW/h meter, but since I already have a SAVAplug, I might as well use it and just hope

[Tin Monkey]

Apparently, if you only wash up once per day you can save £70/year on average.

[AccyLass]

Originally Posted by Tin Monkey

Apparently, if you only wash up once per day you can save £70/year on average.

Imagine all the pots with a family of 4

Thank god for dishwashers

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by AccyLass27

Imagine all the pots with a family of 4

Thank god for dishwashers

Thats no way to call your other half AccyLass
on a positive note, I worked for a efridgeration firm in the seventies, and it was always stated that food would start to defrosed 4 hours after the freezer was switched off, if the door was not opened. The Fridge enginers were under contract to attend abreak down within 3 hours at the outside (that was on comercial business)

[pipinfort]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

use margarine in the frying pan to cook pancakes.they cook twice as fast..

That is by far the best tip so far...............

[banjoman]

Slightly off topic, but have you seen that advert (think its birds eye) with Suggs from Madness where he goes in the front door and everyones front rooms are all joined together and they have one massive dinner table ? I bet that would save money rather than having 20 seperate cookers etc going.

So my idea is buy a terraced house and knock all the walls through and have a party every night

[emamum]

Originally Posted by banjoman

Slightly off topic, but have you seen that advert (think its birds eye) with Suggs from Madness where he goes in the front door and everyones front rooms are all joined together and they have one massive dinner table ? I bet that would save money rather than having 20 seperate cookers etc going.

So my idea is buy a terraced house and knock all the walls through and have a party every night

fantastic...... let me know where you move to lol

[Bonnyboy]

Don’t see why we can’t have more wind turbines knocking around. Not the great huge ones. Maybe 13/14 metre high ones like they are planning to run the new railway station with. Place them strategically to power a bank of houses on housing estates. Put them down the backs of terraced houses (like the telegraph poles) something that will power a few rows of terraced houses.

[emamum]

i like the turbines...grandad takes ty up to see them in burnley sometimes, they are a lot bigger than you think!

[Mancie]

stayed at my mates gaff down somewhere near plantation street and no gas.. we used to put pies on an upturned 2 bar electric fire.. that ran out of leccie so we tried warming them up with candles.. took about 5 hours just to get em warm.. now is that consevring energy.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I don't have access to a KW/h meter, but since I already have a SAVAplug, I might as well use it and just hope

I have a kw/h meter, if I can find it that is