The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-05-16
ELECTRIC COOKING IN BLACK
FOOT.

Last Friday the people OF Blackfoot
were treated to an electrically cooked
dinner at the rooms of the Village
Improvement Association in the base
ment of the city hall
The Southern Idaho Water COM
pany secured the services of Mr.. II.
F. Holland a cooking expert OF Bos-
ton to come to Idaho and supervise
demonstrations of electric cooking a
number of southern Idaho towns, and
Friday was Blackfoot's day to be
shown,
He was assisted by Mr.. E. A. Will
cox representative of the Power
company of Twin Falls, and 7. l..
Bissell and F. A. Marhofer of Poca-
tello. The people of the community
had been notified by postal cards and
by the press of the demonstration
and invited to attend and see for
themselves the new electric ranges
and cooking utensils and to be SER
we'd with free dinner.
Those who responded were shown
ranges cooking large roasts of ham
ana of beef, and many other things
the heat being applied SO directly to
the food that vases of flowers sitting
on top of the ranges kept fresh and
crisp. On one range was boiler OF
water roaring and boiling in turmoil,
and an electric water jacket was on
exhibit for attaching to the pipe line
to heat water for tank The me-
chanism is such that the heater is in
stalled by the side of the tank and
is connected with it by a circuit so
the water travels around the circuit
of the two and keeps at the same tenn
perature as the heater, winter and
summer, heating the water and but
radiating little heat in the room. The
heater required for forty gallon
tank is about eighteen inches long
and three inches in diameter, and
looks about like working valve or
cylinder for an ordinary pump. The
cost of keeping it working is 81 a
month and there Is no noise, nor
SCOT nor fuel and no work to be ex-
pended upon it.
The ranges exhibited, with a full
line Of cooking utensils cost $65, and
are guaranteed for two years. They
are also claimed that with careful use
it will cost no more for current than
the coal range does for fuel 1t
takes less room in the house, the coal
bucket, the kindling box, the wood
shed, the coal bin, the ash pan, the
SCOT problem and the consequent la
Dor of handling and cleaning up,
scrubbing securing and polishing are
eliminated at one stroke. The poor
chimneys if there are any, are clos
ed and forgotten and when the cook
sets the current at "1ow" medium"
or full" or turns it "of', she knows
exactly what amount Of fire she
will have working until she returns
and makes some change OF the
switch. A system of check meters
has also been devised and~fully test
ted by which it is possible in cook
ing with electricity to automatically
cut off when the food Is cooked. II
it is something that requires one hour
to cook and the housewife wants tc
go away, she sets the check meter tC
run one hour and cut off the current
This however does not apply to the
ranges on exhibit here.
The demonstrators do not lay
claims to making the cost of cook.
ing any cheaper by the new methods
but with the same expense they car
enable the housewife to accomplish
her work much more easily and salts
factorily.
They have electric heaters to heal
the house, and their claims for this
system are on par with those made
for cooking. The radiators for 4
house already fitted for heating with
hot air are attached to the pipes fol
the hot air system, and for house