Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-19
WOMAN AND HOME.
WHAT ELECTRICITY HAS DONE IN
THE KITCHEN AND LAUNDRY.

Artificial Aids to Beauty-Why Southern
Girls Are Liked-A Learned Irish Wom-
standardization For American Babies.
Mrs. Eustis and Her Daughters.
The stories of the use of electricity in the
household, If practically realized, will do
more than all the dreams of cooperative
kitchens in solving the problem of house
work. If electricity could be introduced
into the household as a motor to turn the
washing machine in which heavy clothes
are washed, to turn the wringer and the
mangle and accomplish many minor tasks,
1t would be Il genuine blessing. There is
already a device for grinding the morning
coffee. A little slide starts the motor, and
when the coffee is ground and falls into the
co~feepot, a weight turns off the motor
automatically.
Meat may be chopped, fruit juice pressed
out. an ice cream freezer turned or cream
extracted in an instant from milk by vari-
other devices of which electricity is
the moving power. There are baking
ovens, heating stoves, saucepans, broilers,
griddles, sadirons and various other uten-
sils which may be attached to any electric
light wire. The voltage inthe case of these
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ovens, which possess many advantages
over an v heated by gas or kerosene,
are lined with asbestus, so that there is no
radiation Of heat into the room.
The heat is applied 1t the top and bottom
Of the oven alike and may be controlled by
a switch on the outside. There is a Their
mometer attached to the oven showing the
exa degrees of heat, and there is a piece
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cooking may be watched and the heat grad.
uated if it is going OH too rapidly.
The greatest objection to the oven is that
it cannot be opened during the cooking,
and therefore meats cannot be basted as
cial gain in time. A l2-pound turkey re.
euires 2 hours and IS minutes; a 5-pound
roast of beef about an hour and a half if it
is roasted rare. Pies of various kinds may
be cooked in from 80 to 40 minutes, and it
seems probable that this oven would prove
more valuable for pastry baking and other
cases when an intense heat is required than
for general use in the kitchen.
The great advantage of such an oven over
one heated by gas or kerosene is that there
is no odor and 10 smoke. The average
kerosene stove is liable to smoke unless it
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and nothing is more destructive aud dis
agreeable than the all %pervading, penetrat-
ing and greasy SCOT from this smoke.
A pancake griddle, a coffeepc5 or teapot
may be attached to a wire separately. There
are also broilers which broil the meat with
out smoke and in SO rapid a manner rs to
recommend them to all good cooks who
kAow the value of intense and rapid heat in
broiling. 1t is not likely that these kitchen
utensils will take the place Of the range,
but they may be valuable as a adjunct.
A teakettle which will heat water rapidly
at night or a chatting dish which will make
a little appetizing dish for supper will be
very useful in the summer, when it is de.
sirable to dispense with the heat of the
kitchen range for at least a part of the day.
Flatirons heated by an electric wire
would do away with the misery of a hot
laundry in sultry weather and enable the
workerto accomplish her tasks in IN easier
and a more satisfactory manner The
saucepan heated ~ electricity will lie es-
pecially valuable in the sickroom and II
sery, to take the place of the disagreeable
gas saucepans.-NeW York Tribune.