The sun., 1898-02-27
VIRTUES OF GAS RANGES.
COAL DRITBE our OF MORE AND
MORE KITCHENS.

The increase in the use OF gas ranges In both
cheap and expensive apartments within the
last few years Is amazing. Men who have sub
sttutcd the gas range for the coal say that 1t Is
one OF tho great moral agents Of the azo and
that 1t is the means of helping them on to tho
promised land more easily; the wives of such
men snile at this and say that 1t is merely
balm to mans conscience and that 1t has taken
the bread right out OF the mouth OF the profes.
sional writer of jokes. Be this as it may. the
gas range is fine thing 1t has every ad.
vantage over coal II properly managed. It
saves no end OF labor and Is cleaner. cheaper to
run and cooks all foods better than tho old
fashioned coal range.
Ten years ago the use Of gas was practically
unknown in private families except for lighting
To-day there are between 10000 and $4,000
gas ranges in use in apartments which have
been put in by one concern alone. This does not
include those In the big hotels. People in
moderate circumstances have taken more eager
ly to the gas range than those with large incomes.
This is easily explained, for the gas range does
away with one servant, or. II a woman has to do
her own cooking. saves her no end OF time and
strength. Families occupying houses are just
beginning to adopt the gas ranges. That is a
result of the cooking school. Professional
teachers Of cookery have from the very start.
even when gas ranges were experimental and
imperfect things advocated gas for cooking
The gas range for 1898 is well nigh perfect"
said q representative OF one OF the best known
makers OF gas stoves. II; has many advan.
tages over last years model, as bicycle men
say. both outside and in. First OF ALL it is made
with flush top. which is loose for convenience
in cleaning. II anything slops over it drops
through into zinc plato, and there is no smell
OF burning food or grease. 1t doesn't take
half minute to lift off the top and brush OFF the
zinc plate, and there YOU are with clean stove
oncc more. There are two double burners on all
four.hole ranges for rapid work and when in
use things can be brought to a boiling point be.
fore the cook can say caterpillar Again the
gas can be turned down so low that things can
be left to simmer all day and night without
fear OF burning. For several years housekeep.
ers complained that they could not teach ser
wants to be careful In the of gas, and that
they found it just as expensive rs coal. This
difficulty has been overcome by an adjustable
screw for regulating the gas flow. Women.
as a rule, aren't much on handling screw driv.
er. but any..woman can give these little screws
a turn and let the cook do what she may she
can't waste any gas. So much for the outside.
The bottom of the oven is a concave sheet cast
plate. which makes the fire hug the bottom Of
the oven and dffuses the heat equally at top.
bottom and on the sides. This oven is ready
to bake in six minutes after being lighted, and
biscuits. bread cake, and so on come out a beau
tifu brown on all sides. The broileris below the
oven, for you cannot broil over gas. The oven
slides right out and that makes 1t very easy to
pair. r.,When an oven wore out in the old gas ranges
expert had to take out bolt here, bolt there,
another yondcr. and by the time he got the oven
repaired or a new one in the lady of the house
| ard the cook were both in q stew. but now the
| repairing of gas ranges amounts to nothing.
| An upright side broier is one of the newest at
| tachments for the perfect range. The steak.
| birds, sweetbreads. or whatever one wishes to
broil is broiled on both sides at the same time.
for tits suspended from the top of the broiler and
the flames leap up on both sides. A pan below
I'm apartments where the owner doe, not
supply hot water to his tenants" continued the
authority. people who cooked on gas ranges
used to ma e one complaint. They said that
oas conss,anty % and unless they did they had hot
Sr ha hot a
| by tho owner. Tenants have demanded this
and now get it in nine cases out OF ten. In
many old apartments tenants have to supply
which is also need in private houses when tho
women 60 away for the summer and the men
brought ou. that fully solves the hot water
| problem. 1t can be connected with a coal
range or run INDEPENDENTLY by gas This boiler
at 'SsI the least possible expense. When gas Is
| used hot water can be obtained in any part of
| the house in three or four minutes after the gas
is lighted. An automatic regulator and ther-
| mostst controls the gas absolutely preventing
all waste. For instantaneous results the con.
sumption OF gas is twenty four feet an hour.
Where continuous supply OF hot water is
required for the ordinary family use. the con
| hour. AS soon as the water. when being turned
on in quantities. gets below certain tempera-
ture II begins to get hot again
What are the advantages OF gas over coali'
asked the reporter.
with gas than with coal. and nine hundred and
! ninety. nine families out OF a thousand have to
consider that. have an cight-room apartment,
| and four in the family. Our gas bills for cooking
and lighting run from $3.50 TO $3.50 a month.
When l used coal for cooking never used less
than one ton month and that was So. OF
course, we've taught our servants the proper
| use Of the gas range. and there is never foot
Of waste. II servant is going to use gas as the
a housekecper IN stick to the coal range. with
all its dirt. expense, and the labor Il entails A
range to family in a country town in the
South. At the end of the first month he got a
he picked up when Sunday school pupil. He
said that his gas bill was $40. and that he in.
tiscd that the expense OF cooking by gas in an
average family was from $3.50 TO s5 month
and the his E1n %t
| several others equally warm. Finally they de-
| cided TO send man all the way south to see
he asked the old negro cook how she liked cook
| ing by gas. and she answered.:
| 10 de Lawd. honey hit beats anything
| ever seed. All you got TO do ts to light yo'
| stove an dar you got dc fire all de time. Dis
| fire amt gone out since de day Marse John
had dis stove set mp here
"Is it any wonder that the gas bill was $50
| or S3O0i
Again. the use of gas for cooking saves SO
| much time and labor. We often have break
| fast on the table in twenty minutes after the
| stove Is lighted. When coal range is lighted
1t takes a long time for 1t to get hot enough for
| water to boil. You put quart OF water on n
| gas range the moment 1t is lighted. and in
| seven minutes the water boils. Light the oven
| and in five or six minutes IL Ia hot enough to
| bake mullins or biscuits. Gas doesn't make
| ashes or SCOT, and many women say that u IL
cost more than coal they would prefer II. Men.
| tion has already been made OF the facility with
| which gas ranges AN be cleaned and repaired.
| They are a great blessing 10 people who cannot
get out OF town In summer, for the gas Is turned
| Off when not needed, and the house kept much
cooler. Then can regulate heat by means Of
| gas to the smallest part OF degree and that Is
| imDossible with coal. or course this MAKES 1t
possible to prepare all foods more perfectly by
| gas. for some thin are better cooked a slow