Cooking With Newspaper.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1914, Page 3

Cooking With Newspaper.

'A modest French shopkeeper, M. \ Gloaguen, has just invented a little cooking- apparatus that seems destined to render real service to persons out camping or travelling, ami even to the commissairiat departmeuts of armies. It consists of two hollow metal plates fitting into each other, and when one is reversed fit-ting almost airtight. Each has a removable handle. A small tripod completes the apparatus, which

weighs a trifle more than fourteen ounces. It is intended for rapid cookery. In it, according to its inventor, a chop, a steak or vegetables, may be cooked in from two to four minutes. The material is placed in one of the plates with a little butter, dripping or oil, and covered with the other plate. It is placed upon the tripod. Three torches are made by tearing the pages of a newspaper lengthwise and twisting them. These are lighted one after the other and placed successively under the pan in such a way that the flame licks the whole under . surface. By the time the third torch haw burned itself or.it the cooking is finished. It is.due to the heat retained within the tightly closed vessel and to the steam generated in it that the cooking takes place so rapidly. The French boy scouts are supplying themselves with these rapid cookers.