Same here. I mguess it's true of many round here :-)
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Good heavens! Our whole bill isn't much more than that!
I don't suppose I could be bothered with monitoring bills - haven't done since we installed solar water heating (although it was my intention!) but I believe you.
Thanks again.
Mary
I hope I can remember that ...
But it doesn't take as long as that on the griddle ...
Mary
I am NOT going to buy any microwave dedicated gizmos!
Nor in ours. Made a meat pie tonight using the fat I'd skimmed off the pot roast (it was the remnants of that for the filling) to make the pastry. Delicious. And I used the convection part of the new machine!
Am I clever or what?
What ... ?
:-)
Mary
LOL Mary. It was a 4 bedroom house with two adults and two teenage boys living in it at the time AND that was before we had the double glazing installed. :-) We weren't so energy conscious at that time as global warming didn't exist.
Sssshhhh. Don't tell anybody, but..............I got mine for ten cents at the church rummage sale!!
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
I shall be firm with myself. I shall not waver. I shall exercise self-control.
Unless I see a REAL bargain :-)
In truth, there's no room for anything else in our tiny kitchen, he's had to make a sort of table to go over the new oven to hold the things which were in the space now taken by the oven.
Mary
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Ah, I see. There were seven of us in the house but I was strict about power use - couldn't afford big bills :-(
Mary
Fret not. I got a set of "microwave cooking dishes" free - included with the price, that is - when I bought my first one, but I found I very rarely used any of them. The good old Pyrex and Corning Ware pots and dishes I have been using for ever are equally good in the microwave. The only other thing I did buy, and fairly recently at that, was a set of 6 plain white dinner plates for $5 the set. My everyday china has a gold rim on, so cannot go in the microwave, and there are times when I want to just reheat a plate of something. If your ordinary plates don't have any metal on them, you can use them.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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I bought two sets, very cheaply, from a pound shop. We use them for serving food (not cooking) in the caravans, lightweight, stackable, with lids and in a range of sizes they're very useful. But I simply haven't room in the house for them so in the caravans they'll stay.
Yes I'm sure they are, I've tried Pyrex and earthenware dishes already.
Most of our everyday table ware is plain white china - some of it very old (I bought it second hand from someone who was emigrating to Rhodesia in the
1950s) so there's no proiblem. My 'special' dinner plates have silver rims but I know about not putting metal in the oven so wouldn't anyway.What surprised me was the instruction in the booklet not to wrap food in paper when in the microwave - because some recylcled paper contains small metal partcles. I didn't know that! We learn every day :-)
Especially from internet friends, thank you again.
Mary
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