A group of neighbours started cooking food for the whole street in one resident's oven to cut energy use and tackle the cost of living crisis. Adam Walters, 50, started the scheme in a bid to reduce carbon emissions and build a sense of community.
'Potato Mondays', as it is known, sees one person cook enough jacket potatoes once a week on a rota for everyone in the road taking part. Instead of firing up multiple ovens, those joining in the initiative cook for everyone else, with the weekly chef then delivering them to their neighbours.
Cooking five potatoes in five ovens, for example, could cost more than £5, whereas using an electric fan oven to cook all five for an hour costs £1.04, under the latest price cap, the group calculated. That means that using this calculation, in a year Potato Mondays could save these neighbours £200 - or £40 each, they said.
