The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-27
FIKELEss COOKING COMING INTO USE

Inexpensive and Saving in Fuel Bills
This is the age of invention. The ten
dency at present seems to be toward in
ventions which correct the mistakes of
nature. We have seedless oranges,
horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy,
and lceless freezing. And now the fad
seems to be in fireless cooking. In truth
| this last is no longer fad but has be-
come matter of household economy
| and seems to have come to stay. 1t is
called fireless cooking, but this is, strict
| ly speaking, misnomer, for when we do
that we can cook without fuel, we cre-
ate new world for We will have made
/! something out of nothing. By tireless
cooking is meant method OF better con-
serving the heat or cooking.
Such continuance by means of which
70 or 80 per cent of fuel is saved is now
employed in many Madison homes. AL
though such stove may be bought as
regular piece of hardware, any ingenious
person can make one which will answer
the purpose admirably, and besides half
the fun OF using it lies in experimenting
so as to obtain the best results. A more
perfect stove is made consisting of box
lined with mineral, wood or asbestos,
and having the nests for the kettles so
arranged that three or four kettles of
food may be prepared at the same time.
Several home made ebay boxes" or
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gerton this season, accomplishing almost
everything claimed for them. One or
two were constructed from old trunks
padded with sawdust, shavings or some
other non conducting material, the box
being comparatively air tight, no heat is
lost and the kettle kept nearly at the
use in the homes of DIR. A. p. Nicholson,
Mrs. Girard and the editor of this paper.
The convenience of the cooker and it's
capacity to save time, work and worry
are most appreciated by the women
without servant. In the morning the
meat for dinner may be cooked for Is or
20 minutes and then transferred to the
fireless stove and left until dinner time.
This not only saves her from further
work and worry but also prevents the
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house, and does away with all the waste
of the meal through evaporation.
Almost all articles of food, such as
ham, chicken soups of all kinds, stews,
egetables, Boston brown bread, rice and
coffee are cooked more appetizingly in
the freless stove than any other way.
An ideal way to arrange meal is to pre-
pare chicken for instance in the morn
ing and transfer it to the cooker when
without further attention, heat or worry
the fowl and two or three other articles,
such as potatoes, sweet corn and pud-
ding, will be ready to serve for dinner in
the evening. Another advantage is that
food may be left in the kettles an in
definite length of time after being done,
so that meals delayed for some reason
are not the source of annoyance they
once were.
Not only can the cooker be used for
keeping things hot, but can also he used
for chilling gelatines, frozen ices or fruit,
which after being chilled or frozen will
remain so for hours in the air tight COM
partments of the freless stove. In the
sick room where ices and cold drinks are
needed this is equally advantageous.