COOKING BY GAS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2154, 22 September 1875, Page 3

COOKING BY GAS.

At tho Melbourjo Exhibition great im« proveiiients are noticed iu gas stoves, which aro rapidly coming injo uso. for cooking purposes. Tho Argus says

, Cooking ranges and gas stoves form an , important feature iu this' department, i where they may bo found of all sizes - ' from tho small yacht stove, No, 2,23<1, to tho largo improved' paragon kitchcner, No, '2,214, exhibited by Whitney, Chambers, and Co. Cooking ranges arc, however, very much aliko, so that with regard to this and to tho adjoining exhibit, No, 2 256, tho improved domestic paragon kitchener, it may bo sufficient to may that tho first is adapted to got through tho cooking required, iu a first-class liotol, aud that tho second is suitable for a largo house; that they are fitted up with every appliance aud convenience; aud that they aro unexceptionable articles of workmanship, Tho samo remarks also apply to tho kitchen rango (No, 2,220) exhibited by Mr James McEwau and Co. . Tho number of exhibitors in gas stoves affords tolerably clear indication of iho strides this, even now, novel method of cooking is making in popular favour, no less than five manufacturers exhibiting in this class, one of whom (Mr A, E. Walker, of Latrobo-streel) informs us that sinco tho last exhibition of 1872-3, when tho gas cooking stovo was exhibited as a novelty by tho lato Mr James Ellin, no less than 2,000 have been supplied from his factory alone. Messrs Hongson and Co,, 164 and 156 Smith-strcot, Colling. wood, exhibit a collection of all sizes (Nob. 2,212-3), from that which will cook for a family of six persons at a cost of about 5s a-month,up to that which claims to bo ablo to cook for 100 persons iu two hours and a-half for tho sum of 2s. This stove, tho most important exhibit in tho class, is constructed upon what is known as Stock's patent, fittod with two ovens semicircular in plan, by which means it is asserted that no heat is lost, tho boiler and hot-chamber in tho upper portion being heated by tho heat which rises from below. This stovo claims, as a novelty, that it is tho first patented iu which tho <neat can bo grilled over a glowing coal, tho heat for this purposo being communicated to an iudestrucliblo clinker of pumice-stono, held in its. placo by a coarse net-work of copper wire. Mr A. K, Walker, of 40 Latrobo-sti'cot, who was, wo bcllovo, tho first manufacturer of those goods, in connection with tho lato Mr James Ellis, by whom thoy wero introduced into tho colony, exhibits six, of various sizes, suitable for households of from six to twenty-five persons, Two of these aro of tho kind known as the reflector, in which tho operation of roasting is dono below the burner, whilst baking is carried on in tho oven abovo. Tho burners on tho lo[) of theso stoves for boiling aro of a now and peculiar design, and it is claimed for them.by their invontor that they will boil a given quantity of water with less gas than with any other form of burner yot introduced, and in their design a special adaptation has been mado for heating laundry irons. Mr Walker's stoves can bo had either vjith or without boilers for hot water.