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COMPACTNESS IN THE
KITCHEN
VY/E who practise the "new" housekeeping
are borrowing from the dining
cars, kitchenettes and restaurants the
idea of compactness in grouping our
Don't Search Through Drawers oron Shelves!
tools within arm-reach of the place
where they are to be used. No more
walking thirty feet on a round-trip tour
every time we need an egg beater or funnel
stored out of sight in the distant
pantry! Once we thought every tool
must be hidden from sight and protected
from dust within a cupboard, inside a
drawer or in that "catch-all", the pantry.
Now we recognize that dust reaches
these places, only we are not looking for
it there! The "open" kitchen is rapidly
gaining favor because it saves steps. To
facilitate compact grouping of small implements
an inexpensive sink rack has
been placed on the market. In this location
it holds the soap shaker, dishmop,
bottle brush and their kindred. It is
equally serviceable on the wall above the
cook's table for meat pounder, longhandled
spoons, funnel, and a dozen
other food-preparation tools. It is of
white enameled slats, shipped knocked
down, with sixteen special, slideable
hooks.
HINTS FOR PRACTICAL PEOPLE 587
SPACE-SAVING CABINET
RANGE
""THE old-fashioned gas range with
oven and broiler beneath the openflame
burners is as efficient for cooking
as any new form, but we are recognizing
now a new point of view, that of
the convenience of the cook. The
invention of the cabinet range with
the oven and broiler set at tableheight
or above it was a step forward,
for it saved the cook much
weary stooping and squatting to
Examine food in the oven. One
disadvantage remained: the great
width of such a stove, for many
^ kitchens are so subdivided by doors
^ or windows as to leave no available
wall space sufficiently wide for
placing a range with its oven at the
side of four cooking burners. This
range has two large burners, one
in front of the other, and the simmerer,
which occupy the usual
position; the fourth is upon a shelf
above them, suited to the coffee pot; the
fifth is in the base of the broiler.
The Compact Gas Range