Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-04-14
LOCAL NOTICES.
An improvement in COokery-Sim-
pie and Superior InventIOn--A A
Saving OF Fuel, and Blessing TO
Cooks.

Notwithstanding all the improvements
recently effected, it is beyond doubt that
this important branch of liYingis still in q
very imperfect condition. We have long
been familiar with the extensive family Of
cooking stoves, many with high-sounding
appellations, and forwhich wonderful per-
formances are claimed by their owners
manufacturers or inventors; but too often
in examining into their worthiness, we
have been conYincsd of their utter worth
lessness. fhe very simplest principles Of
heat and radiation are often ignored in
their construction at the start. Openings
in the stoves at the ends or doors create
drafts that, as they sweep into the oven, ,
carry off the heat that should be retained.
or concentrate it where it is not neoessa-
ry, and hence the article undergoing
the cooking is too often spoiled, being
more than done at some points, and com
paratively raw or entirely undone at 9TH
ers The saying,
God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks"
is libel on the cooks; for who can, with
the many denominations in the shape of i'll
constructed olZ-StoVes, do better than fill
the place assigned cooks by the proverb,
and large masses of our people all over the
West have to entirely rely on these arti-
cles for the preparation of their daily food
These suggestions presented themselves
to us upon examination of an improvement
in stoves, such as we considerof the great
est Importance, and which we would d.
rect attention to, for one stride in the right
direction often upsets all our preiudces in
favor of what, through want of better
knowledge, we have been accustomed to
look upon as perfect; and we will here
say, without hesitation, that those whose
business it has been to supply us with the
means wherewth to cook our daily rations,
themselves believed that our common cook
stoves were beyond improvement.
Now, without going into technical
treatise on the matter, we will say that the
most important improvement, and one
which the simplest mind can understand,
is that by which the heat is completely
and effectually confined in the oven, there.
by producing uniform heat throughout
that chamber-a heat pervading each part
alike. This accomplished, and you have
obtained one of the greatest desiderata re-
quired for cooking properly.
Simple rs this appears, it is strange
how long we have been coming to it, and
the manner in which this arrangement has
been accomplished has been by complete
innovation, on the principal Of having
stove doors 60 open by hinges. The Com
tinental, manufactured by Mears, Olhaber
4 Co., of this city. is the first stove that
ever has been constructed with sliding
doors, and by this simple contrvance one
of the greatest improvements ever effected
in cooking apparatus has been accom-
plished. So wonderfully tight is the oven
rendered that we tested the door while
closing by inserting a piece of the thin
nest paper between the door and the stove,
and when the door was securely closed the
paper could not be extracted Notwith-
standing the eloseness of the door when
closed it is even more readily and loosely
opened, than if mounted on hinges, and
no contraction or expansion interferes
with this result as such is ingeniously
provided for,
This improvement is socVred by letters,
patent to the inventor, nor is this the only
feature of importance connected with this
stove, for we generally find that when one
step in progress is made, others follow and
hence, as we perceive that the heat is en-
tirelv secured and confined to it's work Of
cooking, the wood is spared, and economy
of fuel follows as a result, Even though
such painstaking plans of economizing
heat might not ay at the present cost Of
fuel in this country, it is pleasing to think
that there is such resource in reserve,
and besides it must be remembered that
the saving of fuel has only been brought
about in secondary way as the main OBJ
iect of the inventor seems to have been the
obtaining off ne plus ultra wood stove for
cooking purposes, regardless of fuel; but
even considered as a great economist in
the fuel alone, it is not without great mcr
it's for it is not with all onnntrieF aa with
US, and ovon our stores Of wood are not in
exhaustible 1t is an unworthy, and, in |
tho real sense Of the word, an inhuman
maxim that bids us "let posterity look to
itself" If the absorbing passion for pres.
ent gain will not let us begin practIcing
economy now, we may at least seek to de-
wise aud perfect plans to be in readiness
when the necessity comes.
With regard to the Continental as q
wood cook stove, the systematic arrange
ment of all its parts, its originality of con
structon and combined qualities. all Of
which we have thoroughly examined, leads
us to believe that it is to-day the most per
feet, complete and economical cook stove
ever invented, and will maintain it's posi-
ton as such until something better can be
discovered.
We are at loss to immagine what the
"something" is to be, unless it be the inge-
nuity to make the fuel, that is now wasted
Ia yoor lost q bundred and thiH ia we |