Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1912 — COMFORT IN KITCHEN [ARTICLE]

COMFORT IN KITCHEN

MODERN INNOVATIONS DO AWAY* WITH MUCH LABOR. Time-Saving Appliances -Have Beei> Introduced and Become General—- , a Fireless Cook Btove Proves Genuine Boon. a -• ; .. . ' . . -rs» • . Nowadays the men who make things have turned their attention to providing the Jtome, and especially the kitchen, with as efficient labor and time saving appliances and tools as an up-to-date factory can boast. The modern kitchen can be. a thing of beauty and a joy even to the woman who works in it, so great have been the improvements made. Take, for instance, the evolution of the fireless cook stove, a mirtcle working contrivance which banishes heat, steam, smells and standing over the stove watching the slow, tedious cooking process. Lined with seamless alumir.um, rustproof, tarnish proof and durable utensils to use with it, and a cunningly contrived steam valve attachment which allows the roasting of meats and fowls, the baking of bread and pies, as well as boiling and stewing. It is indeed a wonderful convenience. All that is necessary is to heat the soapstone radiators either cn a gas or electric stove. Then the food, meats, vegetables, or whatever is to be cooked—cooks Just as i* is, and it is forgotten until the clock Says it should be done. It probably isn’t known that every branch and variety of the cooking art can be successfully employed with the fireless cook stove. The earlier models of these cookers showed a very cumbersome box that took up a lot of space in a small kitchen, but they have now been reduced to occupy waste sp.ice, and some of the later show them swinging on hinges under the kitchen table, where they may be pushed out of sight and out of the way while the rest of the meal is being prepared. Another innovation for kitchen efficiency is a porcelain table with rounded corners and edges, which is seamless, unbreakable and unchippable, and at once becomes a, molding board for pie baking or a meat board or bread board for cooking ani slicing. This is far superior to the old wooden table tops which became the "catchall” for grease and other substances, owing to the surface being scored from knife blades while preparing meals. The best thing of all about a kitchen table of this kind is that i‘. can be kept spotlessly clean —really hygienically clean—by wiping off with a hot wet cloth.