The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-12
Electricity in Restaurants
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y. Y. Sun-The electric restaurant
has been a little late in coming. but II
is now here Electric housekeeping ap-
paratus of many kinds is well enough
established to be no longer classed
among experiments or novelties. AS
expense is sacrificed TO convenience
rather more in a restaurant than in
household, the wonder is that the pos
sibilities of electricity did not appeal
to the restaurant men before they did
to the housekeeper; for electric meth
DDS and appliances appear specially
adapted to restaurants. They are
clearly and they offer the least posi-
BILE drawback as regards heat and
space to be occupied.
As a matter of fact the expense OF
the electric equipment lies chiefly in
the first purchase. The ordinary range
burning solid fuel can give to the cook
ing proper only per cent. of its heat
energy; II per cent. is wasted in OBJ
tanning a glowing fire, 20 per cent.
goes up the chimney and 16 per cent.
is radiated into the room.
A gas stove, which for a certain cost
produces a smaller number of heat
units than the fuel rangef loses so per
cent. of its own heat units through the
necessary ventilating current.
In electricity 80 per cent. of the heat
energy can be utilized. Even though
Only from to 6 per cent. of the eff
cheney of the fuel is present in the
form of energy, 80 per cent. Of this,
or 1-2 per cent. of the whole energy,
is utilized. This makes electricity in
this respect more than twice as
economical as fuel or gas.
But the preparation of the food in
a restaurant may have been begun
electrically long before it reached the
restaurant proper. Farmers in certain
parts of the country, principally in the
middle West, are now planting with
electric seeders and harrows.
After the seeds have been planted
electrically it is very possible that
electricity may be employed some day
to assist their growth. 1t has already
been demonstrated that seeds grow
much better when they have been cleo
trified or when electricity is run
through the ground.
Arc lights also have been used to
hasten the maturing of plants, as well
as to increase the size of their growth. |
There is a man in The Bronx who |
runs a chicken farm, and believing |
that his hens lay better in the light |
he has had his chicken houses fitted |
with arc lights
After being grown the products of |
the soil NAV be placed in electric cold |
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by third rail i'll response to an order |
by telephone, telegraph or wireless.
When they reach the restaurant they |
are prepared by means of various cleo |
trical appliances. one of the newest |
It is a German invention and is much |
more common abroad than in this /
The West Point Military |
Academy was the first to use It in /
America.
The potatoes are thrown into a re-
volving vessel which has a rough bot /
tom, and the skins. which are grated /
off on the bottom are carried away by |
a current of water flowing through the /
vessel
Electric coffee grinders were the first
Of the electric machines to come into I
general restaurant use. Many large
are using electrical refrig
Grating apparatus. The electric plate
warmer is another device frequently
used.
Electric broiIers were among the first
of the cooking apparatus to attract the
attention of the chefs. There are also
and tables for frying cakes.
The unit range is the very newest
electrical range for general cooking. 1t
will cook for fifty and may be multi
piled as many times as the capacity
Of the restaurant demands. Ranges
Of this kind are now being used in
the kitchens of the Erie Railroad din
ing rooms.
In one city restaurant each table is
equipped with an electric coffee per-
eolator an electric chatting dish and
telephone, with, of course. the old IA
iiliar electric lights and fans When.
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