The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-22
THE FIRELESS COOKER
A MARVELLOUS NEW DEVICE FOR
 THE HOME.
It Does fhe work cf an Ordinary Stove and Promises to Rev~ ofufionHme Kitchen
 Work.

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 The list of the proveroial comforts or the home. continually growing larger, has just been further augmented py the addition of . freless cooker. On first consideration this seems quite as impossible and impractical as water less washer or Q needleless sewer. When assured that such thing is both possible and practical, one is apt to have visions of a complicated affair for which. perhaps. storage battery IS necessary but on a personal investiga- tion the fireless cooker Is found to De such simple contrivance that one in voluntarily asks why 1t has not been thought of before.
 By an easily explained method of re- taining heat this invention is made to do the work of an ordinary cook stove, and promises to bring about a com plete revolution in cooking for those who care to take 1t up. Actual heat is necessary at the start. as the article of food to be cooked as we'll as the utensil used must be thoroughly heat cd through before being placed in the cooker, but after the first few minutes of preliminary heating no more stove heat is required and no further atten- ton need be paid to the food until it Is to De served.
 Tn appearance this fireiess cooker is not particularly pleasing, and will not appeal to the artistic sense of the housekeeper any more than do homeiy wash boiler, and the plain tin bread box, and it's construction is so simple that 1t does not even look interesting but like many another real comfort of home its usefulness is out of all pro- portion to its good looks. It Is made fY. al Uh AifFaRAnk af which Is an exact fac-simile of a work ingman's dinner pail. the largest hav- ing capacity of twenty-four quarts: with the exception of the dinner pal they look like ordinary tin boxes. round in shape. painted bright yellow with brown bands near the top and bottom. with tight-fitting covers and handles similar to those on buckets.
 The Inside of these tin boxes is quite as unfnteresting looking as the outside; each one has within it 6 smaller circu- lar box, the two being joined at the top with tin, thus forming hermetic- ally sealed cylinder. These cylinders vary ia width from one inch in the smaller utensils to three and one-half or feur In the larger, and in them na- turaiiy lies the principle Of the fireless cooker. By means of the non-eonduct- ing materials with which they are filled the heat of the utensii and the food is retained at the same degree as when 1t was put in, without any dinii- mutton whatever. and after a certain length of time the food will be perfect ly cooked.
 There is nothing mysterious or in- comprehensible about the contents of these cylinders, on the contrary the whole arrangement Is clearly and def- niteiy explained: next to the tin form Ing the outside wall of the cooker is a sheet of thin pasteboarL, then a sheet of heavy corrugated pasteboard, and then another sheet of thin pasteboard, and as these are all on-conductors the air in the cylinder is consequently dead air, making 1t impossible for the heat to be transmitted through the sides of the cooker. Inside these lay CTS of pasteboard is a body of felt, varying in thickness from one-half inch in the smaller cookers to one and one-half inch in the large ones; this is also a perfect non-conductor, and .s next 70 IL IS placed the metal lining of the neat retaining part, sr the inside wall of the cylinder. The top has a lining of felt and Is perfectly air tight.
 The hreless cookers may be used for preparing food in three different ways boiling. baking and steaming For poiling and baking the foods are pre- pared just as they are when cooked in
 
 thoroughly heated they are transferred to the hreless cooker, which is closed and left for hours. if necessary, One or the greatest advantages of the cook CT IS that while food may be perfectly cooked In 1t, there is never under any condition the slightest danger of it's burning, no matter how long it may be left. The length of time for which the heat is retained is almost incredi- pie; at recent experimental test con- ducted for the United States Govern ment one of the articles cooked was a ham, and after 1t had been done to a turn, at the request of one Of the per- sons interested, the cooker was again closed and left for sixteen and one-h half hours At the end of that time 1t was found that 1t still retained 145 degrees of heat
 For steam cooking water is placed in the bottom of the cooker to inc depth of about two inches, and over that is placed false bottom filled with preparations; the food is cooked in an earthenware casserole, with a tightly fitting tin top; this is thoroughly heat ed and placed on the perforated bot tom and the process of steaming as by the usual method.
 Workmsn as we'll as housekeepera may be benefited by this invention, the dinner pail already alluded to being made on the same principle thereby furnishing the workman with hot food hours and miles. if necessary, away from home. In addition to the pail it. self in which the workman's dinner is cooked. there are in reality three tops and all equally useful A receptacle for coffee, of the same diameter as the pail. and one inch deep, fits into the top, and forms a covering for the cooker. This holds one large cup of coffee which will be boiling hot at the time of the monday meal. On top of the coffee compartment is a felt pad. and then comes the second ton into which may be placed the bread or Die. As the felt is a non on-conductor the bread will not be affected by the heat of the coffee. Over all is placed the top proper, with the little tin cup fitted over the circular opening as in the or-