Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household EquipmentsPeyser, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose)
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Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
Peyser, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose)
Home economics; Household appliances; Kitchen appliances; Kitchen utensils
The iceless refrigerator is an ice saving and remarkable device which
“works” on the old evaporation cooling principle. The two earthenware
crocks, which fasten together, are submerged before filling in clear
water. When kept in a draught or in a moving vehicle or in a window, the
evaporation process cools the food within. This device saves ice, the
cool air doing the work.
The other refrigerator boxes are excellent, too, with their fine
installations and vents for melted ice. These are generally leather
covered and zinc lined.
COOKING OUTFITS
Campers use cooking outfits that motorists do well to copy. For example,
the cooking outfits made of hard seamless aluminum, for from two to six
persons, include, in the smallest set, one frying pan, two cooking
pots, one coffee pot, two plates, two cups, two soup bowls, two knives,
two forks, two dessert spoons and two teaspoons, all nested together in
the big cooking pot, and weighing six pounds six ounces. The outfit
measures 9¹⁄₂″ × 8³⁄₄″, all wrapped in a canvas case.
The nest for eight includes: three cooking pots, one E cooking pot, one
large coffee pot, two frying pans, eight dessert and eight teaspoons. It
is only 11″ × 12⁷⁄₈″ nested, and weighs 18³⁄₄ pounds. It can be attached
in canvas case to rear or side of running board racks, or carried in the
car.
If aluminum is too expensive, there is always the very same kit in
steel, heavier, of course, but just as compact in size. All are seamless
and best quality.
There are also pocket kits which weigh about 31 ounces and measure 2″ ×
3¹⁄₈″ × 8¹⁄₂″ and include a folding broiler, racks which thrust into the
ground, two frying pans with detachable handles and which when fitted
together make a perfect roaster. All fold neatly together and there is
room for knives, forks, etc.
If this list of accessible accessories does not fire your desire to take
to the open road, nothing will.
CHAPTER XLII
THE FIRE HAZARD
The chief underlying reasons for fires in civilized communities are:
carelessness, ignorance and panic.
The immediate causes are: kitchen stove and range maladjustments;
heating stove and furnace pipe lapses; trouble in chimney flues and
pipings; carelessness with lamps, gas, oily rags, cleaning fluids; soot
deposits of soft coal; spontaneous combustion; bad insulation; no
insulation; cigarettes, etc.; no means to put out a fire when it starts;
and, topping it all hidden electric diseases cause almost more fires
than any other one cause.
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