Is it just me, or does anybody else feel overdosed on the present “green” fad? Conserve electricity. Tax gasoline to the max. Charge fees on oil. etc. etc. Micromanage everybody’s life. I am starting to feel that it has gone too far–- to the point that it is being counterproductive.
What’s next?
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Maybe we should petition Kraft Canada to change the cooking instructions for Kraft Dinner (in America, Mac ‘n’ Cheese).
According to the instructions on the box, the pasta should be added to 6 cups of boiling water. However, 6 cups is too much. I find that you only need enough water to cover the pasta. Four cups does fine; you could probably do it in three too.
Let’s say you use four cups, a savings of 2 cups of water every time you cook a box of Kraft Dinner.
2 cups = 0.0004731765 cubic Metres
Assuming a density of 1000 kg per cubic Metre, that equals 0.4731765 Kilograms.
0.4731765 Kilograms = 473.1765 Grams
Assuming a specific heat for water of 4.186 Joules per Gram per degree Celcius, and the temperature of the water is being raised from 20 degrees Celcius to 100 degrees Celcius, that equals 158457.34632 Joules.
Assuming sales of 5 million boxes of Kraft Dinner per year, that equals 792286731.6 kiloJoules per year–-enough to power a small city!!! All to boil water that just gets drained after “7 to 8 min. or to desired tenderness.”
Who’s with me? Let’s contact Kraft Canada and request that they change their recommended cooking instructions to use four cups of water instead of six.
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Aaahhh. I feel so much better for having vented.
David
What’s next?
<sarcasm>
Maybe we should petition Kraft Canada to change the cooking instructions for Kraft Dinner (in America, Mac ‘n’ Cheese).
According to the instructions on the box, the pasta should be added to 6 cups of boiling water. However, 6 cups is too much. I find that you only need enough water to cover the pasta. Four cups does fine; you could probably do it in three too.
Let’s say you use four cups, a savings of 2 cups of water every time you cook a box of Kraft Dinner.
2 cups = 0.0004731765 cubic Metres
Assuming a density of 1000 kg per cubic Metre, that equals 0.4731765 Kilograms.
0.4731765 Kilograms = 473.1765 Grams
Assuming a specific heat for water of 4.186 Joules per Gram per degree Celcius, and the temperature of the water is being raised from 20 degrees Celcius to 100 degrees Celcius, that equals 158457.34632 Joules.
Assuming sales of 5 million boxes of Kraft Dinner per year, that equals 792286731.6 kiloJoules per year–-enough to power a small city!!! All to boil water that just gets drained after “7 to 8 min. or to desired tenderness.”
Who’s with me? Let’s contact Kraft Canada and request that they change their recommended cooking instructions to use four cups of water instead of six.
</sarcasm>
Aaahhh. I feel so much better for having vented.
David