KITCHEN COOKING MARPELS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2803, 22 June 1916, Page 3

KITCHEN COOKING MARPELS

9 THE HOSPITAL SALAMANDER. ■ When it ' was decided' to improve the big kitchen at the Wellington Hospital it was also. decided that the faith of the Hospital cook .should "henceforth repose in a Salamander. The" public has heard from Mr. Boberts of his Salamander stove before; how it gives mora heat for less fuel consumption, behaves itself under .all sorts of conditions, and returns a handsome' dividend in saved money, and .unruffled-tempers. There are all sorts of Salamanders, from the little fellow that brings a smile to the Rood wife in the home kitchen, to the creat giant Salamander that feeds hundreds at a sitting in camps, hosnitals, hotels, etc. And ■ the - big fellows"' have made a great name for themselves, which is one reason why. when the architect to the Hospital' Board "(Mr. IT. de J. Clere) designed the alterations to the big kitchen from whence are delivered dainty dishes for delicate nalates, a place %vas found for a big Salamander of the newest type.

■ Everything about a hospital. kitchen must be the ouiutessence of 1 spotless cleanliness, and'in that respect tHe new cmarters for the hospital cook and his staff are everything that human resource could accomplish under the circumstances. The trouble about most stoves is the chimney, from which sportive smuts' are ant to; take unlawful flights about the kitchen. /So Mr. Boberts, the inventor, of the Salamander, said that in this case there would be no chimney. 4nd so there it stands in the hosoital kitchen—a great, new shining Salamander, full of business and good, ,reli'nble, heat, riuht in the centre of the floor, "approachable from, all sides, and no chimney in sight!

How is it done? Obvinnsly a stovo musti have a chimney. Where is this one's chimney? The plan of the kitchen is 'unrolled, and the mystery is laid liare. The; main flue of the" stove goes down, not up—down through tho floor, and along ■ underneath till the nipe nierces the exterior wall of the building. Then it turns upwards, and is carried along the wall and dear of the roof, its low* stack making, the magnificent draft which gives the milse to the big Salamander in tho kitchen. .Visitors ,to the Hospital should eerfninly pee this latest creation from the Salamander -foundry in Holland Street. Its appearance seems to reflect the spirit of the hospital—cleanliness, quick action, waste cut down to nothing, reliability— always ready. The Salamander Foundry, says Mr. Roberts, has all it can do to keep 'abreast of the orders in hand, for these stoves are beginning to be talked about. Nearly every hospital in the country is now equipped with one. There are dozens in our training camps. Big works contractors on railway extensions, roads, and other undertakings, requiring an organised commissariat- for tho small army of labour employed, have found that their : .troubles—and those'of their cooks—have been solved by the Salamander. When the next draft' of soldiers from Featherston. Camp march over the Kimutaka to get their final polish before going to the front, a military field-Salamander, complete. and of the very latest design by the inventor, will be seen at the Summit. delivering on time its contract of food for the hungry draft. It is the boast of the inventor that almost anything burnable is fuel to the" Salamander, which makes it a good proposition for getting rid of odds and ends' of fuel wastes. The Salamander is prepared to do business either on a wood diet or a course of coal. The remarkR We thing." about it is the astonishing rapidity with which it gets up its heat. It takes less fuel to get ui> a given quail- : tity of heat, says Mr. Eobcrts. than any other stove, and the' reason'of this lies ill the arrangement of the heat-flues by which the pvens and boilers are literally enveloped in heat payments. The Salamander is well named.