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No-cook menu: 5 recipes to make without using energy – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Turning off the gas and not turning on the oven doesn’t mean you’re eating badly, quite the opposite. Don’t you believe it? We prove it to you with this menu without cooking. On the other hand, due to the increases in gas and electricity prices in recent years – according to Legacoop and Ipsos – more than 6 out of 10 Italians have reduced electricity and gas consumption. And according to Coldiretti almost 1 in 5 Italians has drastically reduced the use of stoves, preferring alternative cooking methods or products that do not need to be cooked. It’s worth a try, right? We guarantee the result.

The 5 golden tips for saving energy in the kitchen

There are some precautions that you should absolutely adopt if you want to reduce your consumption. Here are the 5 fundamentals:

Choose low energy impact appliances.
Use the oven carefully: do not open it continuously, do not let it preheat for too long before inserting food and, if possible, cook several dishes at the same time on different shelves of the oven: the ventilated function allows cooking evenly on each shelf. You can also turn off the oven a few minutes before: the heat will remain high for a long time.
The microwave it is a valid alternative for some cooking methods, especially models with more advanced functions.
You have the air fryer? Make use of it. It reaches temperature quickly and due to the smaller size of the basket compared to the oven the food cooks more quickly.
And once the cooking is finished? Use the dishwasher always on the eco programmeif your model is equipped with it, e fully loaded.

What about gas?

There are also many ways to save on gas: use the pressure cookerwhich reduces cooking times, always bring the water to the boil with the pot closed with lid, choose passive cooking not only for pasta but also for many other foods – you can find everything in our article “Cooking with the heat off: not just pasta!”,

No-cook menu: from appetizer to dessert without consuming energy

Who knows how many of you turned up your nose at the idea of a no-cook menu. Yet who knows how many times you have enjoyed a good carpaccio – of meat, but also fish -, a tartare or you have sunk your fork into a delicious salad. Of course, it may be more difficult for you to think of first courses without cooking, but we have the solution for that too. Did you know that pre-cooked couscous can be rehydrated even with the stove turned off?

How to save energy in the kitchen: 10 useful tricks – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

How to save energy in the kitchen? How can we spend less, but also have less impact on the environment? Because reducing energy expenditure has two big advantages: it doesn’t make us waste precious money and at the same time it doesn’t further impact the health of the planet. It serves to make us reflect on this National Day of Energy Saving and Sustainable Lifestyles, which falls on February 16th: a whole day of dedicated initiatives, from which to take inspiration for an increasingly low impact life. It was established by Parliament in 2005 but it is probably only in recent years that we have fully understood its urgency, given that day after day the signs of the environmental and economic emergency are increasingly evident.

How to save energy in the kitchen

Perhaps this is precisely why we understood how much even small gestures can countstarting with those we do every day in the heart of the home, the kitchen in fact: Reducing the waste of food, gas and electricity needed for cooking, although it is a drop in the ocean, is also important.

10 tips for saving energy in the kitchen

Eataly's secrets for saving energy in the kitchen – Italian Cuisine

From the "Sustainable Paths" initiative, a series of practical tips for energy efficiency also at home, which arise from the field experience of the Roman store

Four secrets that help reduce energy consumption in the kitchen: enhancement of seasonal ingredients, with preference for local productions; use of ingredients that use little water in cooking; cooking methods with low energy impact; reuse of waste in the kitchen. They are the magnificent four sustainable paths for cooking which identified Eataly and presented it as part of a larger energy redevelopment project for its stores, in partnership with Eni Gas & Luce.

Well then a tartare, made of fish, vegetables or meat, which is not cooked and maximizes the taste of the product. Green light to smoothies and centrifuges of seasonal vegetables, which give flavor to the dish embellishing it. Never throw away scraps such as bread, because as the tradition teaches of dishes such as Tuscan tomato soup, they can become the basis for large recovery recipes. Also be careful when buying, because a less acidic tomato, for example, allows faster cooking, as demonstrated spaghetti with tomato sauce with red datterini tomatoes which has become one of Eataly's flagships.

These are good practices in the kitchen which, if adopted, help save energy, both on the bill and for the environment. Sustainability has always been a theme dear to Eataly, but with the initiative Sustainable paths for a new energy, born from a partnership with Eni Gas & Luce, has become even more topical. Concrete initiatives that led Eataly to launch a campaign energy requalification campaign of its stores, which starts from the Roma Ostiense store, and which will be extended to the public with a series of educationals on the theme of sustainability in the kitchen.

With its 17,000 square meters covered, it is the largest and most complex of Eataly's stores, yet, as explained by Eataly's CEO, Nicola Farinetti, "we like to start with the most difficult because we have overcome the biggest obstacle. rest is a walk . And if an investment of only 100 thousand euros was enough for Eataly Roma's energy efficiency, it goes without saying that when you go down in size it takes very little to save a lot.

In the case of the Roman store, it was decided to focus on new technologies, but not by replacing the existing machines in the various departments. "It would have been simple and highly effective," says the engineer who oversaw the project. “But very expensive in environmental terms. This is why we have instead focused on good practices and technology that makes the environment smart, smarter ". Twelve sensors scattered throughout the three floors of the structure that communicate with each other and keep a series of parameters under control: primarily temperature, humidity and CO2. To simplify, they are sensors that tell an air conditioner to turn off or raise the temperature of a refrigerator, if the goal has already been achieved. The result is tangible energy savings, which led the Eataly store to reduce consumption by 20/25% in just a few months, with an estimated energy saving of 150 tons of CO2 per year.

“This experiment works as a leader, but we have already extended the experimentation to two partner companies so that they can adopt similar solutions, then there are the other stores we are already working on. And, again, there will be educational courses for the public, through our cooking courses, which will allow us to expand the audience even more. This is because we strongly believe that small efforts on the part of each can give concrete resultsSays Nicola Farinetti.