232 On the Construction of Kitchen 



the numerous other conveniences that will result from 

 them, that my hopes are principally founded of gaining 

 over the cooks, and engaging their cordial assistance 

 in bringing forward into general use the improvements 

 I recommend. I am well aware of their influence, and 

 of the importance of their co-operation. 



When all the ovens and fixed boilers are detached 

 from the kitchen range, then, and not before, measures 

 may be taken with some prospect of success for improv- 

 ing the kitchen fire-place, so as to economize fuel, and 

 prevent the kitchen chimney from smoking, if it has 

 that fault ; and the measures proper to be adopted for 

 obtaining those ends must depend principally on the 

 size, or rather on the width, of the open fire that will 

 be wanted in the kitchen. Where the family is small, 

 and where great dinners are seldom or never given, and 

 especially where closed roasters are introduced, a small 

 fire-place, and consequently a narrow grate, will answer 

 every purpose that can be wanted ; and the fire-place of 

 the kitchen may be fitted up nearly upon the principles 

 laid down in my fourth Essay, on the construction of 

 open chimney fire-places. 



The kitchen of Mr. Summers, ironmonger, of New 

 Bond Street (No. 98), has been fitted up in this manner, 

 and has been found to answer perfectly well. 



But if it be necessary to leave the grate of the kitchen 

 range with its width undiminished, in order that a wide 

 fire may occasionally be lighted in it, this can best be 

 done in the manner that was lately adopted in altering 

 and fitting up the kitchen in the house of the Countess 

 of Morton in Park Street. The range being suffered 

 to remain (or rather the front and bottom bars of the 

 grate only, for the iron plate that formed the back of 



