ROAST CAN BE COOKED INSIDE OUT

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5287, 27 December 1946, Page 3

ROAST CAN BE COOKED INSIDE OUT

LONDON. Talking in the BBC short-wave. service recently on "Science and tlie Industrialist," Ritchie Calder mentioned the dielectric furnace, which some people call inside-out cooking. Apparently, it is theoretically possible for things to- be so arranged that when guests arrive for dinner and press the front-door bell, they could start the dielectric oven and the joint would be cooked by the time they had their hats and coats ofF. This is plausible because, unlike ordinary cooking by which the heat soaks through tc> the centre, dielectric heating simultaneously heats fill parts at once. All the same, it seems an idea likely to cause some confusion in the lcitchen, especially when the wrong guest presses the bell. As it-happens, however, the idea is not really practical, because a joint or chicken consists of various substarices — the lean, the fat and the bone — and all respond differently tothe electric vibrations. You would heave the iean nicely done and the fat still raw. Dielectric cooking seems to be just a scientist's dream-child, but it is good to know that the dielectric oven has more- serious and highly practical uses in making plywood and rayon stockings. v