NOT A DISHCLOTH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 4

NOT A DISHCLOTH

NEW WASHING UP PROCEDURE. Housewives may well envy the great kitchens which are now part of Britain’s war factories, serving substantial meals at Is 5d and washing up in one hour 12,000 plates, cups, saucers, knives, forks and spoons without a single dishcloth. Here is one of their meals: —Scotch broth 2d; roast lamb, mint sauce and two l vegetables, 9d; apple tart, 2gd; roll and butter, lid; coffee, 2d. The new kitchens which prepare these meals are themselves factories in miniature, with ovens as high as 5 feet. Into one machine goes the potatoes which are peeled at a speed of 561bs. a minute; another machine njashes the potatoes; a third rolls out the pastry for the apple tart. When they are all cooked, the din-, ners go into a vast hot cabinet, 180 at a time; and 7,000 workers sit down to this good hot meal little more than ten minutes after they have knocked off work. •

Anything left over is tipped into a bin and a warm spray is played upon each side of a line of empty plates as they pass along a conveyor belt. The plates are then dowsed with cold water, a hot spray is turned on them and they dry at once as they meet the cold air.

And not a dishcloth is used in the washing up of this dinner for a famof 7,000 workers for the war.