The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-12
Cooking and Warming Rooms with Gas.

Cooking and Warming Rooms with Gas.
We published paragraph among our news
items, last week, in relation to an invention
that had recently been brought out in New
York, which will make revolution In
the kitchen and parlor. No details Of the in
vention were given in the notice but we have
seen them in the New York Mirror, which we
copy as follows -
ave believe we have seen a device that OBJ.
viates all objections. overcomes all difficulties
and that will cause this application to come in
to general use. 1t is the invention Of Mr.. John
Power, an Englishman, of the firm of Messrs
Skinner & Power, of Brooklyn, who are the pro-
prietors of the patent, and who are so overrun
with curious and interested visitors that they
have not yet found time to put up their heating
apparatus in our Office. In few days we hope
to be able to show our friends who may favor
us with a call, that ours is the ne plus ultra OF
stoves-Occupying but little space-pOrtable,
that is to say, to the extent of the india-rubber
tube that connects it with our gas-pipc-emit-
ting light as well as hcat-mOrc economical
than cOal-neat, clean, and serviccable-in
short perfect wonder and JijOu Of stove, that
might be put into quart pot.
1.-The modus operandi is perfectly simple
The common gas pipe is tapped at any point,
an india-rubber tube is attached by means of an
ingenious coupling, composed in part of the
same material, flor which Mr.. Power has also a
patent) through which the gas is conducted to
a small iron platc-not much larger than one 5
hand-that forms what may be called the stove
This plate is filled with perfOratiOns. containing
asbestos which concentrate and dffuses all the
heat. The computation made by the inventor
goes to show that small Office might be heated
for the triiing sum of fifteen cents day. In
credibly small as this may appear, we conf
IDENTIFY believe that it will cover the whole eX-
pense, though we have not demonstrated this
| by actual experiment.
Admitting, however, that much larger eX-
pensc will come nearer the truth, the advan-
tages of the invention are obvious. For law
yers, and similar offices. where it is desirable
to avoid the dust, dirt, and trouble of a coal
fire, to say nothing Of the expense of keeping
an attendant, it is peculiarly adapted. a man
can enter his Office in the morning. turn on the
gas, apply match thereto, and the fire is in
stantly started, and by the time he gets com
fortably settled down at his DESK the room will
be warmed. We shall soon be able to give our
testimony as TO the economy and utility Of the
heating part of the invention.
''Of its complete success III cooking we can
speak with confidence founded upon a careful
observation and repeated experiments. We
have eaten meats cooked by this new process,
and can vouch for their fine flavor; as for the
expense, we can speak with mathematical pre-
cisiOn, having carefully computed the cost with
Mr.. Power and the President of the Brooklyn
Gas Co. To cook , lbs Of mutton chops takes
just ten minutes OF time, and costs only OF a
cent ; to boil a kettle containing half q gallon
Ofwater, occupies exactly l. minutes. and con-
sumcs less than cubic foot of gas To get up
breakfast of four dishes, say one for meats, a
second for coffee, third for potatoes &c. and
the fourth for eggs, or whatever else you please.
Will cost only cents, and can all be done with
in Il minutes.
The gas pipes are tapped, and the conEcc-
ton with the cooking apparatus made in the
same way that we have described for heating.
| Fifty dishes can be cooked at the same time il
desired a fine large turkey was roasted at
the Astor House. the other day. by this process
and those princes Of caterers. McssrS. Coleman
Il Stctson. pronounced this mode of cooking the
most complete and successful in its results tina,
they had ever witnessed. The days of stoves
and cooking ranges are numbered. The use O
gas is to form part OF our domestic economy
and the Kitchen will become an attract.v,
place.
MIR. +. has apparatus for every ramil!catior
of the kitchcn-even to heating a fiat iron
that is ever required. An ironing day vii
soon cease to be dreaded by housewives IL
has smoothng-irOl constructed in such Il
manner that it will be heated nearly as soon as
the gas is turned on: the gas is conducted into
its body in the manner We have described. and
can be graduated 1T pleasure the wooden
handle through which the gas passes before ig-
niton IS non conductor of heat. and the flat
can be used all day without holder.
! We cannot 90 into the minute description of
the various cooking utensils, but will say, in
brief, that they are made on the same principle
The gas of one of our ordinary burners supplies
about fifty jets-tcrming a distributed ard at
tcnuatcd Understanding in appearance the
BLUSH alcoholic flame. and saving every par
ticle of the heat The cooking is all done ly
downward radiation the fire is brought to the
meats. not the meats 10 the fire. In roasting,
the fire keeps bastng the meat all the time
thereby saving the cook all that trouble which
he is now compelled to take
The various jets unite and form a splendid
sheet of flame, the heat of which increases in in
tensity the longer it burns, and which accounts
for the great economy Of the invention. Eve
ry particle of the heat generated is uscd-none
OF 1t being lost as is the case now when the fire
Is not cribbcd and confined.
lone OF our average gas burners cost about
20 cents for every 100 cubic feet of gas and as
1t burns only about 4 feet per hour. and as one
burner OF the ordinary size will keep the pot
boiling, or most any of the dishes going the
economy will be apparent to every reader A
company of capitalists have taken hold Of the
matter and will soon erect large factory for
making the cooking utensils &c, so that the
public Will soon enjoy participation in the
benefits of this new and valuable invention.
! WASHINGTON GossT.--The Star thinks Ben
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