Monday 23 April 2007

New innovations

Global warming is a major issue that is haunting the world nowadays. One of the causes of pollution that leads to global warming is the production of electricity through the burning of fossil fuels such as coal. Its well known that we can't stop the production of electricity through fossil fuels overnight, but we can reduce the usage of electricity, so, indirectly the world ill need to burn less fossil fuels to suit the consumers need.

towards that, i have formalized some methods to save some energy. It works while in Germany, but im not sure about Malaysia. Well, as a Malaysian, i cook a lot to save my food expenses in Germany. So, to cook, it is expected for me to use a stove. However the stove in my hostel uses electricity and as you know, heating elements use up a lot of energy to heat up. So i decided to be a little creative in my cooking. Well in a normal stove, u will need a lot of energy to heat up; 1st the stove itself, 2nd ull need a couple of hundred kilo joules of energy to heat up the frying pan or pot, and 3. ull need a few more kilo joules of energy to heat up the food itself...

to solve this problem I have stumbled into a couple new recepies...1st. instead of nasi goreng i have come up with nasi rebus. Thanks to a whole box of perencah nasi goreng Seri Aji generously supply to me by our sister Nico Yip, i was able to experiment with the nasi rebus recipe where instead of cooking the rice and then mixing it in the frying pan, i put in the rice, onions, some sosej cuts, the perencah nasi goreng, some margerine and some vegetables into the rice cooker, mix it together and cook it alltogether. this way no energy is wasted on heating up the frying pan....cool huh? hahaha...But i still need some time to perfect my technique.... another thing is i learnt to boil eggs in the kettle. 1st wash the eggs thuroghly and put some water into the kettle and put in the eggs. switch on the kettle, leave it to boil, after it has finish boiling, leave it for about 6 minuites and voila!! boiled eggs. No need to heat up the stove that heats up the pot that heats up the water that heats the eggs....just kettle>water>eggs......

well ...hahaha...please dont take this too seriously...its just a joke because im a bit lazy to wash some pots and pans.....hahaha...but the energy savings are REAL.....you can actualy save a lot on electric bills if u do this in Germany (the stove in malaysia uses gas, which is cheaper than electric)

So, if i come up with other energy saving tips, i make sure it will be written here...tchuss!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait a minute... don't tell me you drink the water in the kettle after you boil the egg... yuck!

Muhaimin Zamri said...

NOlah....the kettle was an artifact from the last trainee.. it was a bit rusty so i dun dare to drink from it..... besides i have a kick ass coffee machine at office...i dont need to drink any hot drinks at home:)

Clyde Chan Sheng Horng said...

Oh.. ok.. but very true.. a kick ass coffee machine does replace a rusty ancient kettle. Hey, a large thermos is all you need in case of warm drinks crave at home! Woo hoo!