Golden tips for saving energy

Prices for elec­tric­i­ty and heat have been ris­ing for years, and there seems to be no end in sight to this devel­op­ment. Now win­ter is approach­ing and with it the wor­ries of many peo­ple that they will be heav­i­ly bur­dened by ris­ing ener­gy prices are increas­ing. Many con­sumers are react­ing to this and sav­ing wher­ev­er pos­si­ble. Doing with­out stand­by, using effi­cient LED lamps and replac­ing old house­hold appli­ances with new, ener­gy-effi­cient ones — sim­ple things that every­one can imple­ment imme­di­ate­ly help with ener­gy-sav­ing mea­sures. Opt­ing for canned foods can also reduce ener­gy con­sump­tion at home.

The best way to save elec­tric­i­ty is to avoid using ener­gy in the first place. There­fore, when buy­ing food, it makes sense to take a look at how a prod­uct is pack­aged, stored and processed. And that’s where tin­plate cans stand out in a par­tic­u­lar­ly pos­i­tive way.

Tip 1: Cans do not require refrigeration when stored in the home

Food in cans can be stored with­out any ener­gy. This is espe­cial­ly notice­able com­pared to foods that need to be refrig­er­at­ed or even frozen in the house­hold. Nev­er­the­less, they last much longer than their refrig­er­at­ed coun­ter­parts. Good stor­age there­fore makes it pos­si­ble to avoid the need for ener­gy in the first place. And then you can also switch to small­er appli­ances for refrig­er­a­tors and freezers.

Tip 2: Less energy consumption when cooking with canned ingredients

Look­ing at meal prepa­ra­tion, anoth­er plus point of canned foods comes into play. Since they are already pre-cooked, they only need to be heat­ed, not cooked. In con­trast to frozen prod­ucts, the tem­per­a­ture dif­fer­ence until the desired warm meal is ready is also no longer so great. This also reduces the amount of ener­gy used in your own house­hold. Even if it does­n’t affect your own wal­let, canned foods also have the pos­i­tive effect of not requir­ing a cold chain in logis­tics. Nei­ther dur­ing deliv­ery to the retail­er nor dur­ing stor­age and pre­sen­ta­tion in the store. This means that not only Ger­man house­holds can reduce their ener­gy con­sump­tion by using canned food, but also oper­a­tors of super­mar­kets and discounters.