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When you’re cooking on the stove top you can cut your cooking time and/or energy use by up to 75 percent just by using a tight fitting lid says Richard Ehrlich, author of The Green Kitchen. Boiling water? Warming soup? Put a lid on it! I use a lid on almost everything I cook to save energy, but it also helps to save time – and who couldn’t use more of that?
The time factor is HUGE. I’m like you–if there’s not an actual recipe-related reason to leave it open, I use a lid. And if there *is* a reason, sometimes I’ll put a lid on partway anyway.
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