ELECTRICAL COOKING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 201, 24 August 1881, Page 4

ELECTRICAL COOKING.

The forthcoming exhibition of electricity at Paris "(aajf'g ;he Globe) will contain a great number of Curiosities illustrative of the new advances whioh have recently bees made in that fascinating science, and not the least curious of them will be the elecirioal cooking reoge of M. Ssliguac. Tbat ingenious gentlamßn is goiag to fit up his ipparatue id tbe grill-room of tbe restaurant, and intends to furnish forth a {rest variety of meats wbioh have b*ea cooked by heat genaratod from tbe electric current. At the last Paris exhibition M. Mouchot roasted mutton in conrfaosed sunshine, and literally turned his spit on tbe hearth of the sun ; but & hyperbolical American would e«y that M. Salignao had hr eurpaeied thie in broiling steaks by lightning and wafrfiing coffee #lih the fearora borealia. As a matter of fact the eleotric current is just as well fitted to produce beat aa it is to prodace light, if it is treated with tbat end in view, end just aa electricity, will, ia *l! probability, be made to yidd the princpa! artificial light of the future, io will it be applied to household heatiog. The same machines wbich lights tbe bouse by night will beat and cook by day, besides pertorming otber du'.ies, eucb as driving a coffee mill or a sowing maohing. The 6re of coke or coal is well knoivn to be a W6Bt6ful eoureg of heat, and it is a fact that vri.h all our improved furneces 1 and- modes of working,' every ton of tteel rtq.urea eightean times more heat for its manufacture than is absolutely necessary. All the surplus is is waited io tbe process. Some laving ma y ... i?§_ e ffec led in tJLis wide^margi p bv means of aew inventions^ but, iTDr C^fSCjSiemensitfCo^rfcet, the introductiqnvjd<| felictricity as a beating a^tnt will prove a radiaal cure for *uch w.*Sjfca ; ; ;aod; tbsjatec^rio furnace whii h be recently exhibited is a step in ibis dirfcrclion. The ticcperatQio in the of thia apparatus is bj high that esveral pounds, of cold, bird ; ateel were melted down in a very/ few minutes.