We’re all looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint, but what about your kitchen cookprint? Consumer Reports coined that term to describe the energy needed to cook the food we eat. As a result, they listed five small kitchen gadgets to ditch and five to keep. First up, donate these items out of your kitchen as they use a lot of energy but have better, eco friendly cousins.
Get rid of that electric coffee grinder and find a hand crank version instead. And that electric can opener is unnecessary as well, especially since it doesn’t save any time compared to the traditional swing away version. Next to go should be the electric knife. A sharp knife works just as well. And surprisingly, the electric juicer ended up on this list as well, but though hand held juicers require a little more muscle, they also offer big energy savings. Finally the electric mixer and stick mixer can be replaced with the old fashioned hand crank mixer to save energy too.