The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-17
WEST POINTS KITCHEN
Machinery Used to Prepare
the Cadets Food.
BOYS GAIN IN WEIGHT


Down to Sixty-Three Cents Daily.
Bread Made, Roast Beef Carved,
Potatoes Peeled by Machines
Guarding Against Typhoid.
The West Point kitchen is food
laboratory and food factory comb1n-
ed. Every thing possible is done by
machinery, says the New York Sun.
The roast beef is carved by machine
800 cuts of it in less than five min
utes. This machine does the work OF
five men Potatoes are peeled by ma
chinery.
The West Point boys gain in weight
fast the first year. Each year after
ward they put on more weight, but
more slowly than the first year. For
the first three months OF their stay
they lose weight. /.
When the boys march in to dinner
they go to their places with preci
sion and each one folds his overcoat
on the back of his chair. A plate OF
soup is at each ones place.
At certain moment the roast beer
cutter, if they have roast beef, starts
up The walters, each with his own
set of dishes, stand in row. The
meat is showed on hot plates just
taken from the warmer.
The walters, still in line, get the
vegetables on the trays and before
the soup is finished the first man ap-
pears through the doors that open
automatically and the cadets have
their solid food before them.
When they are finished they march
out and certain receptacles for scraps
are brought in. The scraps are CLASH
fed, and through the use or macn1n-
cry in preparing the food the waste
has been reduced from two carloads
a day to one-half CARLOAD.
One OF the most interesting of tie
kitchen machines is the potato pare1
It consists Of big hopper into which
bushel Of potatoes is dumped. In
the bottom and along the sides are
what a housewife would call nutmeg
gratars The skin is buried off the
potatoes and saving Of 80 per cent
is made over ordinary potato peeling.
The eyes are removed by hand. The
potatoes glisten almost as if they had
frosting on them.
In the bakeshop every useful de-
vice has been adopted BY expert
ment it is determined exactly how
many pounds Of flour and water are
needed to make certain batch of
bread. The gauges are set and the
-four and water flow together into a
big knee ding through where rotating
shafts and big wooden kneaders, that
look like Indian clubs, mix and knead
the mixture.
No hand touches 1t. Then it is put
into a moulding machine where the
loaves are rolled out and slipped into
pans. The leaves are exactly two feet
long and round with crust all around
them.
The boys like crust, and the shape
waste in unused pieces than in any
other form. So little waste is there
that oftentimes the cooks have diff
Guilty in getting enough to make bread
crumbs from.
Then the bread is put into an over
After each baking the bread is weigh
ed, SO that the relative value of
brands of -four can be tested. The
bread is sliced by machinery just
before the boys go to their meals.
Most hotels use machines for max
ing ice cream, but they are of the old
fashioned sort, with salt and ice to
finish the product. The West Point
machine uses the brine from the re-
frigerating plant The ice cream Is
pushed out when telltale device an
nounces that it is frozen, and then is
made up into moulds.
The authorities at the Point are
especially proud Of their sterilizing
plant for milk All the milk used is
purchased from dairy across the
river, which Capt. Franklin inspects
regularly. The milk is subjected to a
heat of 1870 degrees at first and then
passes to another tank heated to 100
degrees, and then to another heated
at "a degrees. All this is done in
three minutes and the flavor of the
milk gives not the slightest indication
Of the treatment it has received
What makes the authorities proud is
that not single case of typhoid or
any other disease that can be traced
to cows milk has occurred at the
institution since this sterilizing plant
was put in
The dish washing machines con-
slst OF two parts. In the first part
the dishes are washed and in the
)ther they are rinsed.
All the knives are cleaned and
sharpened by a little electric ma
chine and the silver is polished by
In apparatus with brush that makes
5000 revolutions a minute.
In order to feed the cadets as cheap
ly as p ssible all the supplies are
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