1908. 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
470 
Use and Abuse of the Gasoline Stove. 
As warm weather approaches we all 
consider ways and means of cooking 
without heating the house. Many here 
in the West have what is called a “Sum¬ 
mer kitchen” or shed detached from the 
house, in which the cooking is done. In 
this way the house is kept cool, but, oh, 
the amount of steps taken back and forth 
to this shed in preparing even one meal! 
Besides, we have the cost of wood used 
to consider, also the time and cost of 
preparing it for the stove. Therefore 
for comfort and economy I have a word 
to say in favor of the gasoline stove. 
When I tell you that we have used a 
three-burner gasoline stove that cost 
originally $3 for 10 years, and never 
put one cent’s worth of repair on it, 
you will at once see its economy. If 
one uses ordinary judgment and care 
there is absolutely no danger. In all 
the accidents from using gasoline of 
which we read, if the cause is known 
and given it is carelessness pure and 
simple. Not often ignorance, because 
people have generally read or been told 
there are certain things they must not 
do, but they are in a hurry or naturally 
careless, and so resolve to risk it. It is 
very generally known that the tank must 
not be filled while a burner is lighted, 
but many risk it, with usually fatal re¬ 
sults. It is safer and little trouble to 
turn out the flame, and after filling the 
tank strike a match to the burner again, 
this being all that is necessary. An¬ 
other careless act is to spill and not 
carefully wipe up any oil spilled before 
lighting the match. Never use a stove 
that leaks even a little bit, and if a 
burner blows out and oil escapes wipe it 
up carefully, and do not light a match 
until the gas has escaped, else there will 
be an explosion. 
By using judgment one can economize 
considerably in the use of gasoline. A 
fact not generally understood is that 
when water is boiling it does not cook 
any more rapidly by having it boil 
furiously. When potatoes or other vege¬ 
tables begin to boil, watch them and ad¬ 
just the fiame so as to keep them boil¬ 
ing. Never light a burner until ready to 
use it, nor leave it burning a moment 
longer than necessary. If your family 
requires a quart of coffee do not boil 
three pints or two quarts of water. Put 
a quart (or a little more to allow for 
evaporation) of fresh water in the tea¬ 
kettle, and when it boils have your coffee 
measured and ready, and immediately 
pour water on and set the coffee pot 
over the burner to boil. Plan so that 
the water may not boil two, three or 
five minutes while you grind and meas¬ 
ure the coffee. Following the same rule 
have your potatoes ready in the kettle 
as soon as the water you have put on 
for them boils. In making tea I measure 
the water the same as for coffee, and 
when it boils and you pour it in the tea¬ 
pot turn off your fire and put your tea¬ 
pot on this hot burner. 
When buying our stove we did not 
purchase an oven, as I had heard they 
were very unsatisfactory. Later our 
hardware merchant offered to let me try 
one for a week before buying. It is a 
common sheet-iron oven, large enough 
to cover two burners, and docs very 
good work. I do not hesitate to bake 
anything in it. A year or so ago wd 
covered it with asbestos paper, put on 
ourselves, which retains the heat, and it 
requires less gasoline to heat the oven. 
It is not necessary to start your fire 
for baking until almost ready to put the 
things to be baked into the oven, 
as it heats so quickly. Let 
me tell you how I hake a batch 
of bread—five large loaves and 
a pan of biscuits in 1% hours. Llaving 
the biscuits and oven ready I put them 
on the lower grate for 15 minutes, then 
move them to the upper grate and put in 
the bread, which is done in one hour. 
I he biscuits are nicely browned on the 
bottom in 15 minutes, and the top will 
brown and they will finish baking on the 
upper grate. Plan so that when possible 
you fill your oven when you use it. 
I’y careful planning I have been able to 
do the entire cooking for a family of 
four on a little more than a gallon of 
oil a week, but it requires experience. 
One of these smaller stoves can be 
set on top of tke range, and it takes up 
no room. We will not have a house 
without a stove ready to use in some 
Part.of it, and this usually means the 
cooking range. 1 he gasoline stove is put 
°. n * * n another room when a damp 
chilly day makes a fire feel good. It 
is so light this is no trouble. Once 
you use one you will dislike again to 
1 °°' v and bake with a slower wood or 
coal range. For ironing gasoline cannot 
l)e surpassed. If you are using a kero¬ 
sene stove and like it, well and good, 
nut my neighbor’s experiences have been 
, ia ^ *t J s no safer than a properly 
handled gasoline stove. 
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