Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1911 — THE FIRELESS COOKER [ARTICLE]

THE FIRELESS COOKER

ITS CHARACTER AND PLACE IM THE KITISNEN LABORATORY. Keeping Hot TMnga Hot on# Col* ’WSLE STLST- , ‘ to occupy in the kitchen laboratory. All cooking is done by the applies, tion of heat in some form; without beat there is no cooking that wo provide a place where heat can be generated. Op the other hand, it issimply a utensil or contrivance to serve heat that has. been produced elsewhere. The fireless cooker, then, is a box or receptacle with tightnlosed walls, which are non-conductors of heat And on exactly the same -prin?ciple that the cooker conserves heat. It conserves cold, also. That is, neither heat nor cold passes readily . from within the non-conducting walla 1 of the cooker outside, nor from the 1 outside within the same. The fireleaa cooker, then, is a well designed appliance to keep hot things hot and cold things coMU '■ v: The advantage of cooking certain articles by the long-continued, slow process is well known to good cooks; :* and right here comes in the usefulness of the casserole and flreless cooker. For instance, certain dishes, as meats, puddings, custards, etc., after being thoroughly heated by the coal or gas range, may be quickly transferred to the fireless cooker and inclosed airtight After ten or twelve hours these dißbes will be found not only to have been transformed by the long, slow process of cooking in the pent-up heat into well-cooked and delicious viands, but also to be still hot. Hence the primary use of the flreless cooker la to provide, a ready means for the application ot the long, slow process of cooking; and, with it, this process’can be carried on as well by night as by day. The individual housekeeper will , soon learn how to adapt Its use to her own times and occasions and special needs. —Boston Cooking School Magazine.