How Home Cooking Can Help Solve the Energy Crisis

[Narrator] Remember when the Earth was young?

We were all eating local.

Everything was wood-fired.

It was amazing.

Well, those days are gone.

Now our stoves use gas,

our grills use propane,

and everything else uses electricity.

And all that creates greenhouse emissions.

A lot of emissions.

In fact, about 16 percent of total consumer energy

consumption in the U.S. is food-related.

Look, I know you're trying.

You just installed that energy efficient dish washer, right?

Fabulous.

But we're still producing record emissions,

so we have to try harder.

Where do we start?

The answer is cooking.

When it comes to saving energy in the kitchen,

it's the tiniest things that matter.

Wanna cut your energy by 60 percent?

Broil instead of roast.

You don't have to heat up the whole oven that way.

Got a slow cooker?

How about a rice cooker?

Break em out.

Rice cookers beat out every other rice cooking method,

and a meatloaf made in the slow cooker

is three times more efficient than one baked in an oven.

Yes, these measures seem small, and they are small,

but they really do all add up.

Hey it's this,

or the old fashioned way.

(bouncy jazz music)