With a clever trick, you cook potatoes with less electricity

Put the potatoes in hot water or water boiled in a kettle. Eeva Paljakka

The harshly high prices of stock exchange electricity make you think about what and how you should prepare food.

For example, today, Tuesday, at 5 p.m., the best time to cook potatoes, the exchange electricity is 82.2 cents per kilowatt.

A boiled potato is a delicacy that the strictest electricity savers may avoid these days. Potatoes take significantly longer to cook than, for example, instant rice or pasta.

If you want to eat boiled potatoes, the best way to save money is to reduce the cooking time of the potatoes. A good tip is to chop the potatoes. The smaller, the faster the ripening time.

Here’s the chef’s trick for quick cooking potatoes:

There are several electricity consumption calculators available online. For example, according to Sähkösnap’s calculation, cooking potatoes with an induction cooker with a power of 2000 watts costs around 49 cents today at the time of the worst price spike.

According to artificial intelligence, boiling potatoes for 20 minutes at the highest price costs an estimated 41-55 cents, depending on the size and power of the stove top, if the top is on at full power the whole time.

According to the calculations of artificial intelligence, boiling potatoes for 10 minutes in a similar time costs an estimated 20–27 cents, depending on the power of the stove top, assuming that the top is on at full power.

These estimates are indicative, as the efficiencies of stoves vary a lot. But it is certain that reducing the cooking time will also reduce the electricity bill.

This is how you cook potatoes more cheaply

1. If you own a kettleyou should first boil the water in it and then pour it into the pot.

Remember that the potatoes do not have to be completely covered in water. The more water, the longer it takes to boil.

2. Boil the potatoes until they are half raw. The exact cooking time cannot be given, as it depends on the potato variety and its size.

3. Turn the plate to zeropour out almost all the water, put a tight plastic film over the pot and cover it. Leave the pot on the plate.

4. Let the potatoes cook in peace for at least half an hour. Do not test the potato for doneness during that time.

5. It doesn’t matter if the potato is under the lid even longerbecause it keeps the heat well. With this trick, the potato can’t be overcooked, and it won’t fall apart in the pot.

Even the very difficult cooking potato Puikula remains intact with this trick. In addition to saving electricity, you get good-tasting potatoes.