150 Of the Management of Fire 



In order that the motion of the vessel might not 

 derange any part of the apparatus used in the process 

 of cooking at sea in my roasters, the form of the roaster 

 should be that of a perfect cylinder; and the dripping- 

 pan in which the meat is placed should be a longitudinal 

 section of another cylinder, less in diameter than the 

 roaster by about an inch, and suspended on two pivots 

 in the axis of the roaster, in such a manner that the 

 dripping-pan may swing freely in the roaster without 

 touching its sides. The roaster should be placed in the 

 brick-work, with its axis in the direction of the length of 

 the ship; and, to prevent the gravy from being thrown 

 out of the dripping-pan when the vessel pitches, its 

 hollow cavity should be divided into a number of com- 

 partments, by partitions running across it from side to 

 side. 



It remains for me to give some account of the kitchen 

 which I fitted up in the house of the Dublin Society, 

 as a model for private families; and also of a cottage 

 fire-place, and a lime-kiln, which I constructed as models 

 for imitation, in the courtyard of that public building. 



With regard to the kitchen, it is necessary that I 

 should remark, at setting out, that it was not intended 

 so much to serve as a complete model of a convenient 

 kitchen for a private family, as to display a variety of 

 useful inventions, all or any of which may at pleasure 

 be easily adopted, in kitchens of all kinds and of all 

 dimensions. I thought this would be more useful than 

 any simple model of a kitchen I could contrive. 



It is, however, a very complete kitchen ; and though 

 there are some contrivances belonging to it which might 

 have been omitted, yet they will all, I am confident, be 

 found useful for the different purposes for which they 



