Tribe.net. Local Connections Mari http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#68f6fd0d-7cd0-464b-b546-7768cc6d8331 2007-04-29T00:53:59Z 2007-04-29T00:53:59Z

Mark, I'm glad to hear you had a successful surgery! And you are more than welcome. It was fun for me to do a little detective work on what was otherwise looking to be a slow day.

Mari 2007-04-29T00:53:59Z Mark http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#b70627d7-f270-46f9-a566-515c2fc95d9a 2007-04-28T00:44:29Z 2007-04-28T00:44:29Z

Thank you Mari, I would have responded sooner but I went in for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft *5 surgery and this is the first I could get back. I always thought that cooking w/ gas was better then electric but never thought to check it out.

Mark 2007-04-28T00:44:29Z Tri http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#58b47668-377b-45f1-8b71-61477673bfd2 2007-04-25T18:32:08Z 2007-04-25T18:32:08Z

Very nice breakdown, Mari!

Tri 2007-04-25T18:32:08Z Mari http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#99b77c91-851c-46ce-a203-ed7a9b5d7f1c 2007-04-25T18:26:29Z 2007-04-25T18:26:29Z

I suspect it's from "The Home Energy Diet" - see citation in this web article: http://www.carashops.com/article_10_simple_green_ideas.html I spent about 10 minutes on the other cited source (climatecrisis.net) but couldn't find it there. As for how it compares to gas.... I started with http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cooking.html for estimates of how much energy it takes to cook something with each appliance, and got these figures: Electric oven, 1 hr, 350 degrees: 2.0 kWh Gas oven (w/ pilot light), 1 hr, 350 degrees: 0.112 therm = 3.25 kWh Crockpot, 7 hrs, 200 degrees: 0.7 kWh To figure out CO2 emissions from there, http://www.techmind.org/energy/calcs.html has estimates (in kg) of CO2 emissions of electric vs. gas use in the United States, which comes out to approximately: 100 kWh of electric use = 54.3 kg of CO2, or 14.8 kg of carbon 100 kWh of gas use = 19 kg of C02, or 5.2 kg of carbon So after converting everything to pounds per kWh, here's what I found: Electric oven, for 1 hr at 350 degrees: 2.4 lbs of CO2 Gas oven, for 1 hr at 350 degrees: 0.9 lbs of CO2 Crockpot, for 7 hrs at 200 degrees: 0.8lbs of CO2 ...so gas and slow cookers are fairly comparable, but for those of us with electric ovens, the crockpot is a clear winner.

Mari 2007-04-25T18:26:29Z Bladerunner http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#8f126a26-2c16-4554-b58f-8bcf607e9138 2007-04-25T04:45:16Z 2007-04-25T04:45:16Z

I'd love to see the citations for this.

Bladerunner 2007-04-25T04:45:16Z Mark http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#e6224876-f2ea-4265-bd6a-9f41aca1a699 2007-04-23T17:51:44Z 2007-04-23T17:51:44Z

How does that compare to cooking with gas? My range doesn't use electric it's all gas (well except for the starter's and built in clock/timer).

Mark 2007-04-23T17:51:44Z $item.owner.firstName http://crockpotcooking.tribe.net/thread/64d0c464-a476-4466-9ed8-2891d6109dd5#7d8aaefc-083f-4db1-983d-ee553b6aaaac 2007-04-11T00:09:25Z 2007-04-11T00:09:25Z

Cook with a slow cooker or a toaster oven (or even a solar oven!) to reduce electrical use from kitchen appliances. For a meal that requires 1 hour to cook in an electric oven, and which uses 2.7 pounds of C02, a crockpot uses 0.9 pounds of C02 for seven hours, a toaster oven takes 1.3 pounds of C02 for 50 minutes, and a microwave only 0.5 pounds of C02 for 15 minutes of cooking. A solar cooker requires NO C02!

$item.owner.firstName 2007-04-11T00:09:25Z