POTS AND PANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 267, 1 February 1928, Page 7

POTS AND PANS

A WIDE VARIETY WORD FOR ALUMINIUM WARE When choosing pots and pans—whether a complete set for the Mw home or merely renewals—the toodern housewife has a wide and almost bewildering variety from which to make her choice, and is in a very position to her grandmother, who was forced to choose from a very limited selection. During the last .few years, cooking utensils made of aluminium have be*©me more and more popular, and in «his article it is proposed to consider this variety only. They undoubtedly possess many advantages, and are particularly suitable for gas and oil cook-tag-stoves; they are light—a most important point, especially for larger Pf-ns; they are now comparatively cheap; and they are easily cleaned. One most important point in *u VOUr aluminium utensils is tnat they are very safe, as no injurious salts are formed as a result of cooking food in them. It is, nowevsr, advisab e to buy goodquality pans made of pure alum* •mum, for cheap goods are sometimes made of inferior aluminium *nd may contain other undesirable metals. A £ ew words regarding tho cleaning aluminium may not not be amiss On no account must soda be for hot soda-water acts on the •juminium, gradually dissolving it. Fine s»eel wool cleans aluminium very satis®ctorily. If the pans become discoloured—as they generally do when « S *<l for heating hard water, and specially when used for cooking ep^s—'is a good plan to fill them with some £ harmless acid and bring it to the answers the purpose admiror if squeezed lemon or apple are available, they may be Afd. for. as readers may have noticed, . j ® fruit is stewed in a discoloured saucepan the dark stain disappears. This stain is harmless, but «**• appearance of the pan is hardly r®Proved by it. and therefore most “ousewives remove it.

proof of the Interest the tilington Master Builders’ Associatakes in the classes at the local college affecting the build- « trade has been shown from time to me by monetary grants for prizes by °t encouraging the students in neir work, and in other ways. At ® annual meeting held recently it as unanimously resolved to donate a u m °f £7 7s to provide prizes for j*j? ren tices attending the carpentry ‘p joinery and building construction r ‘asses at the college.