Monday, April 06, 2009

Actually, it is a manic Monday

Busy, busy, busy today. Fortunately, clotted cream practically makes itself if you just let it sit around. First you let it sit around in a cool room, then on a burner turned very low for four hours, then in the refrigerator for eight.

Interesting fact from my utility company: To heat an ordinary electric oven costs 32 cents per hour. 

Shocking fact from my utility company: The average person spends $1.65 per month to use their gas stovetop. 

How can that be? So cheap. I ran a calculation based on the specifications of my particular stove and the price of energy in our area and it turns out that it really IS cheap. Though my math and logic are always questionable, it appears that it costs me 14 cents an hour to cook something at high heat (boiling pasta) and 9 cents an hour to melt butter. To make the clotted cream, therefore: 36 cents of gas. 

Back to work.


2 comments:

  1. My electrician father always said that it cost more to turn on and off the lights than to leave them on - maybe he is right. Just think of the gas you are saving by clotting your own cream - it saved a trip across the ocean, to your grocer, and to your home... i bet that wasn't cheap!

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  2. Yes, but I'd rather be in Bath. . .

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