San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
Gas Stove Should Provide
Ample Cooking Surface
for Best Results.
CONTROL HEAT SUPPLY
Thermostat Not Useless
Frill But Very VAL
liable Aide to Cook.

trying to get the household function
ing to a degree Of smoothness.
In my twenty-odd years of house
keeping experience it was the frs
time that / could not cook with ga
il 20 desired, and with the moving
in" and the settling to attend to,
wondered If the cook would simply 6,
on a strike, and say she could not and
what might be more to the point, woult
not, cook with a stove in which fir
had to be made and kept going. But
fortunately for me, she had been borI
South, and had, until her northern ad
vent, cooked only on a stove stocked
with wood, so the workings Of III,
household went singingly on and We
were all happy.
But, while things went lovely by the
accident of having a woman at hand
who knew how TO operate a wood oil
coal stove, it might have been most
terribly wrong if the cook in charge
OF the kitchen had known as little
about the operation Of coal range
as most housekeepers and kitchen
workers of today are apt TO know.
Until there is trouble with the kitch-
en- stove one rarely ever realizes the
importance of the range and how nee
essary it il 10 have it in good working
order.
Saving Cooks Temper.
/ know nothing which will ruin the
temper Of the cook so readily, even If
that cook happens at the time TO be
myself, and / will not admit that l
am any more liable to have such things
affect me than any other housekeeper.
Having this thing in mind, let US Sc
lect a range which will be as nearly
perfect as we are capable of choosing,
a range which will meet the require
ments of our own family and its needs,
large enough to allow the dexterous
preparation of the meals, without tax
ing the ingenuity of the cook.
If We are living in a two-room and
kitchenette apartment, we cannot ex-
pect to work on range with five or
elk burners, but even a stove made for
kitchenette use may be as large as the
space allows, and / would suggest
that the largest stove possible be
placed in the kitchenette instead OF
the smallest it will hold. If hostess
has ever tried TO get meal on tiny
stove for even a guest or two, she will
agree with me that the larger the
stove the better it is, If she is working
in a kitchenette.
~ Plenty Of Surface.
For the kitchen of ordinary size,
ten by twelve feet or so, there should
be a range which will have a generous
cooking surface, whether it is a gas
range, q coal range or a combination
range.
The gas range having four burners
on the cooking surface and a simmerer
will be found in Most cases large
enough for the small family and the
small kitchen; such a range, having a
baking oven and q broiler, is usually
sufficiently large enough.
There are cooks who much prefer q
coal range, for where soups and stews
are used a great deal, slow cooking j:
more easily done. While j can see
the stand taken by these cooks, l per
sonally prefer to cook with gas. i
the kitchen is not heated for winter
comfort, then a coal range is almost {
necessity. In such an event wha
could be more desirable than the re
markable combination ranges which
are now procurable, using gas for tn,
summer months and coal when tn
weather makes a coal fire necessary
Clean Enamel Ranges.
The manufacturers have recognize,
the need for ranges which do not nee,
''blacking" and are putting on tn
market stoves and ranges OF enamel
black, gray, blue and white. One ca
almost carry out any desired colo
~AharnA he rrcinn Of fhaca So a
tory ranges.
No one who has ever had q cleai
enameled range TO work with will eve
be satisfied with one which soils tn
dress or apron if touched in workin
about it, to say nothing about the say
ing of labor and the attractive appear
ance of such a stove.
After we have decided upon the pei
feet range from our standpoint, let u
be sure that there is at least an owe
thermometer installed in It. Their
are a number of ranges which ar
equipped with thermostat, and wha
could be of greater convenience an
comfort? II the range has such a
installation, the eady-to-be-cooke
regulator placed at the desired ten
D<IdluTtt anu luC uousthttUtE 10
the meeting of the club, make call
take the children for a walk, or an
other thing she may want to do, an
the cooking of the dinner goes merrill
on.
Keep Cook Happy.
Do ] hear some reader saying
"Fell, what's the use of that? / d
cot have TO do the cooking or II
watching of the food while cooking
To that housekeeper I would say, tn,
the happier ones cook it, the LEI
trouble there is In successful hous
keeping. Why not allow the cook Il
extra time to sew or read while q
regulated range is doing the dinn'
cooking?
Moreover, if the range is supple
with q regulator one has only 10 set
for that particular things which is b
ing cooked, and that thing will
cooked to perfection. Think OF Il
saving of money in this il there Wi
nothing else to be said in its favor.
In this day when we are givir
much more thought TO our kitche
what could be more satisfying than q
enameled range. an enameled top (,
the kitchen table and the, to be d
sired, enameled sink?
A most livable, workable ar
rieauahle Kitchen xrould ba a,.oIyad !