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Grilling is a common summer cooking method. The weather is nice, the sun is out and you can enjoy eating your foods outside as well.  Although grilling is a very high-heat method of cooking, if you're using an outdoor grill, the heat can dissipate into the air around you. Indoor grill pans or grill tops may heat up your whole kitchen, making your home much warmer.  These still require you to heat up your stove top to a high heat level in order to cook foods thoroughly. Grilling allows you to cook just about every type of dish or food that you'd want without having to turn on your oven.  You can do a whole chicken, make burgers, grill vegetables, make baked potatoes or even make sweet desserts like baked apples — all without turning on the stove or oven. If you don't have the luxury of an outside grill, you'll still need to use your stove to cook foods indoors. Skip the oven and only use your stove top to make any cooked foods.  You may notice a slight increase in your kitchen temperature when using the stove top, but it will be significantly less than if you turned on the oven and decided to roast a whole chicken or bake potatoes. Avoid baking or roasting foods.  These cooking methods require your oven to heat up and stay hot for extended periods of time.  This can make your house or apartment warm and more difficult to cool down. To speed up cooking time on the stove top so you can minimize how much you heat up the kitchen, try:  slicing foods into smaller pieces, using thinner or smaller cuts of meat or poultry, and covering your pan or pot to trap the heat inside. If you can, try to focus on foods and meals that are served cold or don't require any cooking (or very little cooking).  This can help keep you and your home cooler during the hot summer months.  Try sticking to foods and recipes that don't require you to turn on the oven or only need a quick cooking session on the stove top.  This can help reduce the heat dissipated into your kitchen. Chilled foods can include:  cold salads (tuna salad, chicken salad); green salads; cold vegetable salads (three bean salad, beet salad); chilled soups; and yogurt/cottage cheese with berries. Also try to make meals that require little to no cooking.  You can make sandwiches, scrambled eggs on toast, grilled chicken or steak over a salad, chilled soba noodle salad with raw vegetables, cheese and crackers with deli meat, or a poached egg over a spinach salad. Try to figure out a good method of keeping your kitchen cool in the summer as well.  This will help you prepare meals during those hot summer months without getting too hot.  If you have windows in your kitchen, keep them open for ventilation.  You might want to try to opening windows on opposite sides of the kitchen or house to get a cross draft. Try using a portable fan to keep hot air moving through the kitchen.  You can align it so it points toward a window or pushes hot air out of the kitchen area. Also, if you do need to use the oven to bake or roast something, try doing it early in the morning when the temperature is the most cool.  This will help prevent heating up the kitchen in the middle of a hot day.
Heat up the outdoor grill. Use the stove top. Go for chilled foods and those that don't require any cooking. Keep your kitchen cool.