The Cornell Reading Courses 



PUBLISHED BY THE 

 NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



Beverly T. Galloway, Dean 



COURSE FOR THE FARM HOME, MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER and FLORA ROSE, Supervisors 



Published and distributed in furtherance of the purposes provided for in the 

 Act of Congress of May 8, 1914 



VOL. IV. No. 95 



SEPTEMBER i, 191 5 



FARMHOUSE SERIES 

 No. 9 



THE FIRELESS COOKER AND ITS USES 



Helen Canon and Lucile Brewer 



To any one interested in labor-saving devices the possibilities of the 

 fireless cooker are alluring. 

 Within the last ten or fif- 

 teen years much ingenuity 

 has been exercised in per- 

 fecting the construction of 

 commercial fireless 

 cookers, with the result 

 that at the present time 

 the principles of physics 

 and sanitation are so well 

 observed that the fireless 

 cooker is in many house- 

 holds and institutions an 

 indispensable piece of 

 equipment. 



THE PRINCIPLE AND 

 ITS APPLICATION 



The principle underlying 

 the construction of home- 

 made and commercial fire- 

 less cookers, including in- 

 sulated ovens, is the main- 

 tenance of a constant 

 temperatiire, high or low, 

 by surrounding the food 

 compartment with some 

 good insulator, which 



tends to prevent the passage of heat. The food to be cooked 

 thoroughly heated; it is then placed in the cooker where the 

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Fl<;. 64. A HOMEMADE FIRELESS COOKER IN USE 



is first 

 stored 



