Test-Bench Kitchen

New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 19

Test-Bench Kitchen

KITCHEN used by 44,000 cooks annually! That’s the aim of the Home Science Extension which you can hear about in the. Extension’s weekly talk in the Women’s Session on the main National stations during the week February 7 to 14. This is the 2000th talk given over the past years, The 44,000 is the number of people who have benefited in some way from the Extension’s services, and the -kitchen, when built, will further help these people in three ways. First, it will be a model kitchen arranged for quick and easy housekeeping. Ags well as*having the equipment placed so that it. saves most work, the Extension hopes to have the latest and best models available that will help answer such questions as, "What can I use a liquidiser for besides fruit and vegetables?" and "How can I make best use of my refrigerator?" Secondly, the kitchen will be useful for testing new recipes, products and kitchen devices. When something new comes on to the market the Extension will suggest the best ways of taking advantage of it; when the market is glutted or in short supply, hints will be given on how to cope; if someone's jams do not kéep 6f pfeserving jar lids buckle the kitchen will be useful for research as to the cause. The third use of the kitchen will be

to demonstrate foods and nutrition. The actual kitchen will be arranged just like that of an average home, but the fourth wall will open out on to a large lectureroom, where visitors can be shown how to ice a cake or the latest methods in preserving, or learn some national dishes from other countries. This service will be in addition to the Extension’s usual work, and no doubt that figure of 44,000 will steadily ‘ncrease over the next 25 years and 2000 talks.