The San Francisco call., 1906-04-15

The 1reless cooker is the answer. to
that problem You cannot hurry the
vegetables placed In it's care. The heat
Is slow and even, and the cellulose
covering OF lenti1s. beans and peas is
softensd and made safe for even the
delicate stomach.
It would be unjust to represent tho
hreless stove as solving every culinary
Ill. For IT isn't an Aladdin's ring. II
Will not take the place OF a cook.
Intelligent care must be given to tho
preparation OF the meats and vege-
tables to be served. Every article
must be heated through. and when
transferred from coal or gas range to
freless stove the water in the steamer
must be boiling. The water must be
kept at the cooking point long enough
to cook the food inclosed. and il IT Is
not at this point in the first place one
might leave the dish in the cooker for
days with the result that it would still
be underdone.
AS made with two doors, the freless
cook stove has three compartments. the
shelves or partitions being adjustable,
so that however high or low the utensil
used 1t can be accommodated. With it's
this two-story cooker looks not unlike
the compact refrigeratOrs with which
flats and apartments are now so gen.
orally equipped. and it will probably
not be a great while before the hot
storage box will be considered quite as
indispensable as the cold storage box
by the educated seeker of a desirable
unrented.
in case of need, an iceless refrigerator.
its perfect insulation serving TO retain
cold as effectively as heat So If meat
or fruits are taken off the ice. after
being penetrated by the cold and placed
in the freless cooker. they will retain
the low temperature for hours. thus ar
resting all deterioration.
But it is as heat retainer, rather
than as substitute Tor an ice box. this
simple appliance makes it's strongest
plea for favor, and even in, modified
dinner pail is its principle made mani
fest
BY its provision the cold lunch that
lies like stone in the stomach of the
laboring man or farmers helper be-
comes a needless infiction-
The tin pail. with coffee cup atop. fol-
lows its predecessors. the small basket
and the paper wrapped parcel into the
Never Again Land, its place being taken
by a neat wood box lined throughout with
non-conducting substance and supplied
with a single partition by which coffee
tin-eapacity two cups-is separated from
the rest of,the contents.
And this coffee, whsn lunch time comes.
is as warm-or nearly so-as when the
wife or mother made it ready four or five
hours earlier and the hot sandwiches.
hard boiled eggs and hot mince pie not
only restore the body's used strength. but
by their very warmth nOurish the entire
system-nerve. muscle and brain.
Such a device is valuable. too for the
promises 1t holds out, for there is no
avoiding it's tacit assurance that the heat
retaining box can and will be adapted to
the particular needs of camper, tourist.
hunter and motorist.
1t is only a question of time-tIme and
public approval
There is no virtue in the size of the
box; small one serves as surely as a.
case ten feet square-just as a small gas
or coal range works as well as a large
one. provided always that not too mucn
is expected of it in point of quantity OF
work
When the fireless cooker is introduced it
will-so the manufacturers solemnIy as
severate-effect a saving not only of fuel.
but of food as well, since by rendering
seorching and burning impossible. no part
of meat or vegetable can adhere to the
utensil.
Loss of favor is equally impossible. for
all juices are. perforce. retained. and one
may be sure Of getting the best of the
dish when it is prepared in the new way.
Perhaps through science we shall Yet
be enabled to overcome one of the charges
brought against us by our more deliberate
brothers overseas-that we are a nation
OF rapid eaters of rapidly cooked food.
There will yet remain enough points OF
dispute to keep our International para
Fraphers employed. never fearI