Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XII. KITCHEN. Ventilation—Too much of a good thing—Attic kitchens Stone floors — The blackbeetle — Skirtings — Cooking apparatus — Kitcheners — Open ranges — feas cooking- stoves—Lighting torch—Hot-closet—Circulating boiler— And its jackets—Hot-water cistern—Gas cooking—Eco- nomy_« With care ’’—Erratics—How explosions occur— How to prevent them. A MOST important feature in the arrangement of a kitchen is its ventilation. Thorough provision should be made for carrying off all those culinary odours, a whiff of which is so appetising, but which pall so rapidly upon the affections when the whiff is too long or too often repeated. In the great modern club-houses this difficulty, with some others, is got over by establishing the culinary department in the attic story. But this is hardly practicable in ordinary dwelling-houses.- Where the kitchen is used only as a kitchen, and not also as a servants’ hall, the floor should always be of stone. When it is to be practically the servants’ dining- and general living-room, this is hardly advisable. But even then it is well to have