TABLE COOKING

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1923, Page 12

TABLE COOKING

HANDY ELECTRICAL DEVICES.

There are a great many small electrical appliances now to be obtainedvfor household use. Of these, a special group of great utility are the varieties of portable table cooking implements, by means of which the necessary cooking for one or two persons can be done in a sittingroom or actually on the table. The simplest of these is the disc stove, with

either solid top or open top heating element. JFi-ying or boiling.can be done on this. The more elaborate stoves have heating elements both on top and underneath, so that boiling and roasting or grilling can take place at the same time. By means of such a. stove quite an elaborate meal can be prepared. ' A very useful electrical device is a combined heating radiator and cooking stove. The" appliance can be used equally well in either capacity. The electric chafing dish provides tlie means of producing savoury breakfasts or suppers with the least possible trouble. The chafing dish is particularly useful for Sunday night suppers. If all ingredients, etc., are measured out and placed on a tray in readiness a delicious meal can be prepared in a few minutes. A cooking device which is not sufficiently appreciated in this country is the electric waffle iron. Waffles are a form of batter cakes cooked in a special pan, and make a moat delicious dish for breakfast or an evening meal. They are very economical and a great favourite when.once tried. •

Electrical appliances have a place, too,, in the nursery, where the handiness and quickness of electric heating is much appreciated. The latest nursery device is an electrically heated feeding bottle container, in which the baby's food can be heated to the desired temperature at any moment 'of day or night. The latest pattern of electric toaster is fitted with a swivel reversible rack, so that once the slice of bread is placed therein there is no need to remove it until both, sides

are toasted. The rack ig turned with on« movement, and time is thus saved While an electric kettle is always a boon, the newest type has two particularly valuable features. The first of these is a switch at the kettle end of the flex cord, so that the current can be turned on and off' without necessitating a walk across the room to the. wall nlue Ihe other edition is a safety fuse which is fitted into the bottom of the'ket te, and wnich guards it aga i ngt ; nju ' tvh Wrt* accldentally left connected with the current after the water ha* evaporated. Should this happe^ hroueh and the currents automatically shut off Electric irons too, have addi«fea"onlvM T tyP ue the electric cu ™* only flows through the iron when the operate grasps it firmly. Directly' her and ftV^!? tHe mantis shut off, and there is thus no fear of the'iron arjwork. Another iron has a switch at the lron end 0{ the flex co J rtc^at gieat convenience to the worker, as thY Sv p an n Tbe f egulated v^y a«u : Ss S.* 6 W°rker 1S left "-ith h°*