Removing doubt, removes nerve strain in a kitchen--and maybe the cook without nerve strain will be affable and a comforting dweller in your halls! THE NEW MACHINES Among the best machines is one so made as to effectively chop food and meat, grind coffee, slice vegetables and fruit, etc., etc.; has with its attachments a hot-water and ice container to be used as a “bath,” if stirring must needs be done in a cold or hot medium; soup strainer and colander connection; ice-cream freezer attachment; a meat slicer (a great comfort and saving of meat). This motor has three speeds. [Illustration: _Courtesy of Troy Metal Products Co._ A MEMBER OF THE KITCHEN ROTARY CLUB AT WORK ON CAKE-MIXING.] You may have never felt the need of these types of workers, but then you never knew the use of the radiogram until you used it! Don’t you hate to strain and _persuade_ large quantities? The strain is gone from straining large quantities now. This is gently done by the coaxing electric strainer and colander device. One “mixer” is also accompanied by a cabinet if desired. It is finished in white and is made especially for this device and houses comfortably all its attachments. It has an enameled metal top and does not add much to the total cost of machine. Another power unit advertises two speeds and has all the above attachments. It comes with a metal table with a shelf (open), on which all the work can be done with comfort. SMALLER CRAFT If you don’t want a machine that can do so much, there is one on the market electrically driven, which beats eggs, mixes mayonnaise, angel cake and light batter, mashes potatoes and fluffs them if mixed with butter and cream, mixes custard, soufflés, etc. It has a small ¹⁄₂ H. P. motor of fine construction designed for 110 voltage. It is necessary in this case to state whether your current is direct or alternating (DC or AC). This motor can run on either direct or alternating if the speed control device is not to be used. But the speed control in this instrument is its crowning glory. That is, you can mix rapidly or slowly, a performance the older type of mixers small or large could not do. It was racing speed or nothing. All cooks know that some things take rapid beating or stirring, some other things slower agitation. The cook or housewife can in the course of her experience with these new comers into our kitchens find new uses continually for them. For example, this small motor has a speed regulator which ranges from 4800 to 8000 revolutions per minute. This motor takes from 25 watts (extra load) to 60 watts (heavy load). It is well to have a detachable motor as in this one, for when cleaning is necessary the motor remains--due to its hydrophobiac (fear of water) elements--unharmed! The beater itself here is the ancient and honorable Dover type, so you see it is not so foreign to your ken. TIME AND THE MIXER