The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-19
ELECTRIC COOKERY
The Housekeeping Problem Will Be
Changed Before Many Years.
KITCHEN RUN BY BATTERIES
Electric Ranges and Cooking Uten-
sils Are Already on the Market
Only WeIi-to-Do People
Can Afford Them.
From the Philadelphia Times.

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households will be run by the mystic
rious fluid. Electricity will take the
place of fuel in the range, the depart
ment of the cuisine will be lighted
by the same agency and II is entirely
conceivable that a small electric motor
will be made to serve for such pur-
poses as beating eggs and mixing grid
die cakes.
Already electric cook stoves in a
number of patterns are on the market.
You can even buy an electric chatting
dish. which may be attached at a mo-
ment's notice to an ordinary electric
light wire in any house. These chat
ing dishes are made in one-quart and
two-auart Sizes nickel plated. All you
have to do is to make the attachment
by a plug switch. turn on the current,
and almost Immediately your oysters
are beginning to stew or your eggs TO
frizzle.
Before long householders will take
electricity regularly for domestic pur-
poses. Just as they now take gas. But
the more subtle fluid will be made to
serve for cooking and heating as well
as for lighting. The convenience of the
housewife of being able to rely upon
one system of wires for fuel, for cook
ing and for warming and Illuminating
the dwelling will be enormous. She will
find ii particularly delightful to be
rid of a hot kitchen in the summer
time.
NOWADAYS the kitchen is liable to be
the dirty part of any house. To keep
II really clean is almost out of the
question. The coal used for fuel
blackens everything with which II
comes in contact: ashes make more
dirt. and smoke blackens the ceilings
and walls. In the electrically conduct
ed kitchen of the near future 1t will
be quite different. There will be no
coal. no ashes. no smoke. The range
will be ready for cooking at a mo-
ment's notice with no time and pa
thence wasted in the laborious kind
ling Of a fire. The turn of a switch
will start the current, which may be
shut of again when no longer wanted.
The electric kitchen in full operation
was exhibited at the Worlds Fair i'm
Chicago. All sorts of cooking were
done in 1t, including the roasting of
joints and fowls. the broiling of steaks,
the baking of bread and cakes. etc,
and the results were extremely salts
factory. The only reason why this
method of cookery has not already
come into general use is that cleo
tricity as a substitute for fuel costs
more than coal or oil or gas. The diff
ference In cost in fact, is considerable,
but IL has so many advantages as to
Dt WOTln the price. some Jay pro-
cesses will be discovered by which
electricity can be produced more
cheaply, and then even poor people
will be able to AFFORD electric ranges
and heaters.
Meanwhile a good many people who
are able to pay for the luxury are buy.
ing electric culinary apparatus. 1t is
undeniable that the kitchen thus
equipped is a joy and a blessing-free
from dirt and noxious gases, and cool.
Think of the happiness of a kitchen
that Is always cool; of a cook who is
not red in the face and soiled as To-
clothing: of a fire that requires no
kindling. being turned on or extin-
guished at a moments notice. Why,
under such conditions life assumes a
new aspect from the point of view of
the housewife.
With the introduction of the electric
chafing dish ends the era of the alco-
hol lamp. with its disagreeable odor
and liability TO overflow and set fire
to the tablecloth. Similar in idea is
the electric tea kettle and stand, adj
mirably adapted for 5 o'clock tea. The
stand is connected with an electric
wire; a turn of the button and pres
emily the water for the beverage that
cheers without inebriating is singing
in the pot. Take off the tea kettle and
you have in the stand a suitable appa-
ratus for making coffee in a bachelors
apartment. or for various uses i'm the
nursery or sick room. In hospitals
electric contrivances are particularly
well adapted for heating food, warm
ing bandages. etc.
The electric range looks very differ
ent from a range of the ordinary kit
chen pattern. 1t is more like a table.
with a cupboard beneath for warming
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supplementary articles as the chatting
dish and coffee pot. On the table will
be seen, perhaps, lined pot
for boiling or stewing, a griddle and a
broiler. while the ovens stand on the
floor alongside. ovens. pot. broiler
etc. are attachable to wires when
wanted for use. Overhead the skim
mers and other small utensils hang
from pegs on the wall
II is said that meats roasted in the
electric oven have all the qualities OF
meats cooked in front of a fire, and
they do not require basting or watch
ing. They are cooked more evenly and
In less time. while retaining a larger
percentage of the nutritious juices
Bread is baked in the same apparatus
ideally. No culinary process is more
difficult than to broil in a first-class
manner. The coal stove is usually not
in suitable condition, and the gas often
ignites the not rat ana burns the food
The electric broiler does its work with
out smuggling the food. smoking or
burning IL. The escaping juices are
collected unspoiled In a pan beneath,
so that the cook can readily haste the
ment-
The electric cook stoves are made in
portable shapes. like gas stoves. Urns
for heating water are sold for use in
hotels. restaurants. barber shops and
other places where hot water Is con-
stantly required. An ordinary electric
light wire supplies the caloric. The
electric sad iron is a boon alike to the
laundress and the housewife. The cur
rent supplied TO IL by a wire keeps IL
at a constant temperature. and thus
no time is lost I'm changing and re-
heating wires. One iron may be used
continuously and no coal or gas stove
Is required The iron never becomes
over-heated: IL always remains clean
and bright and does not require WHIP