SAVE ON THE FUEL BILL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 19 December 1925, Page 10

SAVE ON THE FUEL BILL.

Long, slow meCLods of cooking are fuel-saving, since less heat is required. A urate piled up with glowing embers is ”no longer necessary; fuel which uurns al a much slower rate may be I substituted. Coke and charcoal are much lower I in price than even the cheapest kitchen I coal. They give out a moderate and I even heat, which makes them particularly adaptable to lengthy modes of cooking. French housewives almost invariablv use either coke or charcoal in their kitchen. Failing coke and charcoal, however, the carefully sifted cinders of the day before, wet slack, and dried fruit and vegetable peelings, if fed at intervals into a kitchen urate, form admirable coal economisers, and maintain sufficient gentle heat to answer all culinery purposes. Gas does its most effective work when it burns a certain percentage of air. This cannot happen if the burners are too high, so that it is much more economical to use one of the larger gas rings, ami keep the gas low, than to liave a smaller ring with the gas turned up as high as possible. A still more economical plan is to buy a square of sheet iron and have it cut to a size that enables a couple of saucepans to stand on it. Place this square on the smallest ring ol the gas stove, and light the burner. The heat travels through the iron so quickly, that the contents of the saucepans are kept on the boil, and me ring does the work of two in consequence. Another simple contrivance, to save on tho fuel bill, is to make every possible use of the power of retention which heat is known to possess. This is particularly noticeable in ovens, which often maintain quite a high temperature at the close of the clay, after the fire has burned itself out. or the gas has been turned off. 'I his heat should never be wasted. Hav Box Cookers are, of course, constructed on this principle. These can now be so cheaply and easily made that every woman desirous of studying fuel economy should have one, at least, in her kitchen.