The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-06-12
Cooking By Electricity.

Most women consider as one of the
disagreeable duties Of the kitchen, the
handling of the coal. When need Of
such work is gone, together with the
heat which range diffuses, one-third Of
the labor of the cook is over. Gas
stoves fer heating purposes and gas
CRATES of different kinds also help much
to tighten the labor of housekeeping.
One woman asserts that she counts as
the greatest luxury in her home the
asbestos backed gas CRATES. On cool
evening it adds greatly to the cheer
and comfort to light the gas in the
library, or, just before the family comes
to the breakfast table, to turn on the
dining room fire while for bed room,
no other fire compares with it, she
thinks, since it brings neither smoke,
dust nor ashes; and, if the baby is
going to bed, there is the fire in q
twinkling ready for him to be undressed
beside, and, if he wakens at midnight,
only a match and the turning Of a key
is needed to. prepare warm blaze.
The expense over that of coal of course
is dependent chiefly upon two things,
the price charged for gas, and the care
exercised in burning fame no longer
than needed, as well as in turning it
of: the moment it is not in use.
However, with all the convenience
in the use Of gas, electricity seems to
be even better fitted for adoption in
the kitchen. The demonstrations that
are being made with it now point to a
reasonable hope Of future holding
much lighter labor for the housewife,
and methods are being studied in a
manuer both 30 scientific and so prac-
tioal that about the only point that
needs attention is the lowering Of the
cost of generating electrical heat to
one that will make possible and ad-
visable its adoption by the non-weal-
thy.
The electrical stoves are in the form
of tables, often of slate or marble,
| which may be moved from place to
place by the simple process Of discon-
| nection of wires. The wires, explains
| professional, are wrapped first in
asbestos, which is non-combustible,
then in rubber, and finally in silk
thus is danger guarded against.
It is claimed that meats roasted in
an electrical oven retain a larger per-
centage of nutritious juice than those
cooked with. any other sort of fuel.
There are broilers which are divided
into sections and which have switches
for turning the current on or off GER
tain sections, so that the entire broiler
need not be heated if only small
piece of meat is to be cooked. The
broiler also has beneath it a pan for
collecting the meat JUICE which is
wasted when a steak or ohopis broiled
over Goals. Electric fiat irons are in
use, and indeed there are possibilities
for the domestic utilization Of cleo
tricity in many ways. A writer on
the subject has recently said in the
New York Tribune:
The practical uses to which electric
ity can be adapted are limitless. Hot
water urns, cha6ng disher, curling
tongs, are conveniently heated with it
Portable stoves are made in various
sizes and shapes, and an assortment
Of them will entirely obviate the use
of the ponderous range or stove. They
furnish uniformly heated surface,
more effective than the top of any hot
stove heated by alcohol lamp or gas
fame. They are useful in the nursery,
living-room, or hospital ward, and
people appreciate their convenience.
Being especially applicable to the or
dinary forms Of steam cookers, they
| obyiate all risks of either too violent
boiling or of subsiding and cooling,
and are invaluable in the preparation
! of broths and bullions for infants and
invalids.
In hospitals electrically heated
apparatus can be successfully used in
| the various wards for warming beds,
bandages, etc. In factories where
with present methods fame is employ
ed, electric heaters can be used for
vulcanizing, for heating the pitch ket-
ties, glue-pots and irons so that flame
or open fire, with its attendant dangers,
| is entirely dispensed with.