Electric Cooking, Heating, Cleaning, Etc; Being a Manual of Electricity in the Service of the Home (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... water urn's or for toasting. The oven is used in the morning for cakes and pastry, and the plates later on in the day for keeping warm soup and other articles. Behind the demonstration counter on the ground floor are three ovens, with extension plates; three single cookers for urns, etc., and two extension discs for keeping soup warm; a 3-gallon and 2-gallon urn for coffee and tea making being used on the plates later on in the day for keeping warm soup and other articles, grilling, toasting, etc. The equipment in the West Room comprises two single ovens heated by extension plates; a single cooker with two extensions for heating soup and in the afternoon for heating urns for tea and coffee making or for toasting. There are five convectors on each floor rated at 2.1 kw., thus taking 2.1 units per hour, and these maintain an even temperature throughout the day, three-heat control being provided. The food lift is operated by a l-hp. B.T.H. motor and the passenger lift by a similar motor of 6 h.p. The total loading with everything in full operation is 120 units, the average working being about 40 units per hour. Middlesex Guildhall Electric Kitchen. An interesting example of installations of electric cooking apparatus in public buildings in London is the electric kitchen attached to the new Middlesex Guildhall, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster. V This kitchen is at the top of the building, and is equipped exclusively with "Tricity" Apparatus, comprising a large grill heated by 4 extension cookers, each taking 850 watts; a hotcloset separately heated, to take 200 plates or dishes, two boiling discs over the closet; a fish and potato fryer heated by two 850 watt discs, 4 ovens measuring 19" X16" X14" with top and bottom heats; a large carvin...