216 On the Construction of Kitchen 



Description of the Kitchen of the House of Correction 

 at Munich. 



Plate X., Fig. 7, and Plate XI., Figs. 8 and 9, repre- 

 sent the plans and sections of this kitchen. 



Fig. 7 represents the ground plan of the brick-work 

 in which the boilers, etc., are set, or rather a horizontal 

 section of the brick-work at the level of the fire-places, 

 and of the canals for carrying off the smoke. In this 

 kitchen the fires are not made on circular iron grates, 

 as in that just described, but the fuel is burned on grates 

 or bars composed of bricks set edgewise, as may be seen 

 by the plans. (See. b, b, b, etc., Fig. 7.) 



The two principal boilers (/, /, Fig. 9) are quadrangu- 

 lar, each being 3 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 1 5 inches 

 deep, furnished with wooden covers movable on hinges; 

 and they are both heated by one fire. That which is 

 situated in the front of the brick-work, and immediately 

 over the fire, is used for making soup ; while the other, 

 which is placed very near it, and on the same level, is 

 used for boiling meat, potatoes, greens, etc., in steam. 

 A small quantity of water (about an inch in depth) being 

 put into the second boiler, the smoke from the first, which 

 passes in flues under the second, soon causes this water 

 to boil, and fills the boiler with hot steam. The steam 

 from the first boiler is also carried into the second by 

 means of a tube about f of an inch in diameter, furnished 

 with a cock, which forms a communication between the 

 two boilers just below the level of their brims. This tube 

 of communication is not expressed in the plates. 



The smoke, having quitted the second boiler, rises up 

 obliquely to the level of the top of the mass of brick-work 



