Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27
TWO PERIODS OF STUDY.

In the early morning is In prime condi-
tlon for dinner. In fact, almost any
thing that is wanted for dinner can be
cooked in the morning and VIII De
ready by the sme dinner is wanted,
without Keeping up the fire at all. y
single burner of an oil or gas stoN
that viii boil the water Will suiilce
for preparing a whole meal, and 1t can
be set away in the hay box and allowed
to cook itself, without heating up the
diningroom or kitchen
If several receptacles are to be used
at the same time for meat and different
sorts of vegetables more than one
bucket needs to be used. In fact, an
old fashioned ice chest that will hold
three or four buckets in a row can be
divided off into nests, tightly packed
with felt or paper and with thick
felt covering inside the lid. The buck
cts must have tight-fittlng tin covers.
| with such an arrangement II Is said
that a whole meal can be easily and
economically prepared with one boiling
of water and without any smell or heat
The German government has been eX-
perimentlng with similar cookers for
| tho benefit of poor families having to
J economize in their fuel bills. The
| American army has also been trying
! them. not from motives of economy, but
! for convenience II has been found
| else that the army wants to cook can
| be loaded into the treless cookers when
! camp is broken In the morning. and
| these. cookers can be hauled by the
| transport wagons all day and hot,
| well cooked dinner produced. ready to
| serve, when camp is made I'm the eve
| ming. The comUisSary general says he
! has found that the fireless cookers work
| excellently for army purposes, and
| there seems no particular reason why
| they should not work even better In
| ciVn life.
Something of the same plan was adj
yooated a number OF years ago by
| Edward Atkinson, OF anti-imperial
| fame who produced the Aladdin cook
err that he said at the time was des-
| tined no revolutioni2e housekeeping all
over the world. His cooker worked on
the same slow-cooking principle, but in
| stead OF depending on boiling water for
| ms heat, Il was placed over an ordinary
! lamp. The cooker was the same sort
| OF an insulated box with an inner COM
! partmcnt Of tin sheet metal and an air
space between.
There was a hole In the bottom for
| the Top OF the lamp chimney, and an
| other opening at the top for the draft.
| Cooking was carried on I'm the box as in
an ordinary oven, and all sorts OF
| things from boiled onions 20 rice pud-
the same time without any minglng OF
| ilaNors
Mr.. Atkinson gave many demonstra-
lions OF his cooker IN the larger cities
| and achieved some remarkable results.
| lie required two on three times as long
TO cook anything IN his insulated box
as one required on a stove, but he
would start II going in the afternoon in
| q large ham, and after lecturlng would
| open the oven and serve supper TO his
audience, all sort Of meats, vegetables
ana buildings. and even bread, being
cooked simply by the heat Of an ordln-
airy reading lamp.
The cooking box rested on thin iron
legs over the top OF the lamp. ana Mr..
Atkinson pointed out that II did not
Interfere with the use OF the lamp for
illuminating purposes ana that there
was no smell. The wife could put on
the breakfast i'm the evening ana the
family could sit around and read and
then go 20 bed. leaving the lamp burn
ing All night, awakening In the morn
Ing 10 ina their meal ready cooked.
II was a beautiful scheme, and a
good many Of the cookers were sold. ana
some OF them At least did all thai was
claimed for them. But for some reason
they never secured any vogue and the
slow cooking scheme languished
Whether the agricultural departments
lreess cooker win have any better luck
is a question. But there is no ques-
lion at all that 1t win work.