The Ely miner., 1943-08-19

IL6 DdLIl6IlSlO, he Is Ii the Sd4SSl
position behind the lines, since the
food is endowed with more senti-
mental value than the top sergeant.
The jokes about Army cooks being
shot at from both sides are not
based upon fact.
However, friend cook has to greet
the morn before the morn gets there.
On the days when he works, he has
to get up between 800 and $3.50
o'clock IN order to prepare SUBJ
stantial breakfast for about two hun
dred healthy, growing boys whose
appetites are exceeded only by the
size of their mouths and the power
Of their lungs.
Yesterday we started to school,
with cookbooks and manuals and
loose-leaf notebooks for our home
work. The only way in which it
differed from public schools was that
the naughty boys didn't have to go
and sit with the girls. Also, the
Ounce seat, instead of being in the
corner of the classroom, was said to
be behind a large sack of potatoes in
the battery kitchen.
The only hope for an easy time in
class was gone in this school.
There's no percentage in bringing a
shiny red apple to a teacher who
has the key to at least one we'll
stocked pantry.
Tomorrow, after lunch, each of US
will be taken to one of the sixty-four
Replacement Center kitchens. There
we will present ourselves to the
mess sergeant, who will sigh weari-
ly at the sight of us and show us
where to change our uniforms. Then
we will proceed to prove, in our re-
spective kitchens, the old saw about
too many cooks.
We will be rallied at by the mess
sergeant and the first cook and, if
we want to and know how to, we
can rail at the kaypees in turn.
When the boys in line make sneer-
ing remarks about having spinach
again already, we can jaw back at
them. It will be wonderful to be
able to jaw at someone again. Life
has loveliness to sell.
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In the kitchen, they tell US, all
the cleaning-up work is to be done
by the kaypees, so that the cook
may be doing more important
things. This, unfortunately, doesn't
apply to the daily task of cleaning
the stoves thoroughly. The stoves,
it says here in the books, are the
cooks tools and he must do his own
grinding.
It isn't worth the time to wait for
the stoves to get comfortably cool
before you begin the twilight beauti-
fcation of these overgrown infernos.
In order to avoid the rush at the
theater, and to let the kaypees off
early, start work now.
The stoves must be cleaned in
side and out-thoroughly. First,
shake down the fire. All the live
Goals must 60 into the ashpan un-
der the crate. That much is SIM
pie. Then remove the ashpan, red
Goals and all. It must be dumped
into the ash can out on the garbage
rack. This entire procedure should
be simple, too, it says here. All
you have to do is catch the front
handle with heavy glove and catch
the little hook in the rear with the
far end of your cap litter. Here we
gol
Garry the ashpan well in front of
you. Amt it hot! When you get to
the door, simply open it with the toe
of your shoe. Like this. Like
Doesn't seem to work. Try again.
Try pushing the right screen so that
the left one will swing Slightly to-
ward you. Ready? Slightly push
the right screen. Something seems
to be wrong here.
During this time, you will become
increasingly aware that the glove
over the ashpan handle is becoming
hotter and hotter. Just as you get
your toe into the door, the heat
penetrates the glove and you de-
cide-very suddenly-that perhaps
it's best to drop the whole matter.
Drop it slowly, carefully, tenderly-
If you can. Do not drop it upon
the woodea floor. Look around, II
you think you have time, and locate
an overturned boiler on which to set
it. Whew, that hands hot! No boil
er? Then drop it anyway!
You will find that dropping the
ashpan, even though you did it gen.
tly, has released small amount of
floating ash, all of which will be
absorbed into your mouth and nose.
Patience, brother. See that the ash
pan isn't lying where it will burn
anything, such as a perfectly good
wooden floor. Pour cold water on
the glove, wait for the resulting
steam to blow away, prop open the
door as you should have done in
the first place, and try, try again.
This time you will almost reach
the garbage rack before the glove
again gets hot. Slide, Kelly, slidel
You won't get there without drop
ping the whole pan into the clean
road, but at least you tried.
oSot bA4C pan 6S6AiSL Tic dsn can
several times for sound effect. Re
turn to the kitchen, where the mess
sergeant, who was watching you
through the window all the time,
will direct you to return and clean
it up.
When the job is completed, take
hope and courage. You have only
two more ashpans to empty.
Then you may get to work clean
ing out all the SCOT which has gath
cred above and below the ovens. In
this procedure, a small, solid-sur-
face rake is inserted through a tiny
door IN front. Using the door as a
base OF operations, wiggle that
peskv little thing around inside tbe