A DOMESTIC TALK.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1924, Page 2

A DOMESTIC TALK.

THE ECONOMY OF (OOKING

BY GAS

(Continued from Previous Issue;. The first illustration of this that comes to mind is the lighting of tt house. Consider this: you do not

“build tiif a light, either gas or electric. so thal it shall he ready when you need it. No! You turn it on and then turn it off.

It is exactly the same with cooking. What housewife does not know t!ie necessity for stoking up the kitchen file when she wants to hake.-' Keeping great files going so that they mnv lie used for hut an hour or so is

about the most illogical tiling that can he imagined. Now consider tile gas cooker. There it is, ready to serve you at a moment’s notice. When out nf iim.* il costs you nothing. You simply spend money on fuel when it i- yielding you returns in the -hain- of looking the food.

With a gn- cooker von can regulate t It., heal exactly. No waiting for the old-style oven lo get hot enough nr to cool down for your purpose; Dm gas cooker heat i- exact and never varies. Therefore there is no risk of food tiring spoiled through the vagaries of an an oven yon cannot control. Then take into consideration the fact that ga> cookers arc so cleanly. No raking out of ashes in the cold of a winter’s morning, no laying the lire and waiting for it to Imru up. A\ith a gas cooker you start without delay and without any preliminaries.

Now as to the actual cost of cooking by gas. A series of scientific tests made a little time ago revealed the fact that a complete dinner foi

eight persons could he cooked by gas at a total cost of a few pence. And this dinner included a 7J11) joint, two soles grilled. Albs potatoes roasted, nearly 21bs of rice pudding, tart and puff pastry! The practical housewife well knows ti e amount of stoking that a coal fire would need to cook that dinner, and this actual figure of twopence for cooking by gas could not be approached hv coal heating.

From the standpoints of convenience. cleanliness, comfort and economv there is no better method of cooking than hv gas. Hundreds of thousands of people are proving this every day lo their great benefit. May wo ask if you, too, are taking advantage of it! Ask your nearest gnsfittor, or the local Gas Depot, for particulars of the Domestic Gas Appliances to meet all local requirements.

(To be continued). .