ELECTRICAL COOKING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9643, 19 January 1903, Page 4

ELECTRICAL COOKING.

NO UNDUE HEAT ABOUT FUTURF DINNERS. The very latest application, of electricity is to cooking. M. Moissan, of Pan's has been making experiments m raising hea.t by electricity. He lias succeeded m inventing an electric crucible m which very great heat is generated, and fife most intractable substances that hitherto had defied analysis are driven off into vanor; but more moderate heat can also be obtained for ordiim-ry purposes. In fact, it is a mere mutter of arrangement whether we get light or motion or heat from the electric current. If we choose heat, we can have have it, and we can use it -as- we desire, to smelt metals or to cook our dinner. An electric oven has been invented, m which electricity both turns the spit aoid roasts the joint. The fireplace has been turned into a small electric furnace, from which the heat radiates just the same as if it were «, coal fire. Vessels hare ailso been made for cooking purposes, with an outer and an inner skin, the interval between, the two skins being filled with a white metal which is heated by a, current of electricity. In this way water can be boiled and food cooked. There are three degrees of heat, according to the will of the attendant. The vessels are provided with binding screws that connect them with the current m a moment. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this invention. lav a few years we shall be turning on our room fires for heating just as we now turn on the gas for lighting. Our cooking will be done without dust or smoke ; and by being able'exactly to regulate the intensity of the heat, we shall also be able to cook a. steak to our entire satisfaction. At the break - fast table the coffee may be made before our eyes ; while soups aiid other preparations can be allowed to simmer any needed time, with tliß certainty that the fire will neither become too hot nor go out altogether. There is hope for scientific cookery "under the conditions of the coming time. The housewife's labors will be lightened, and her husband's temper will remain serene. — Chambers' Journal.