Chapter 25
Section 25 of Cheating the Junk Pile. The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by MJ Rodriguez. Cheating the Junk Pile by Ethel R. Pacer. The Kitchen Rotary Club. Are you a culinary Rotarian? Or do you still beat it by hand?
The kitchen rotary club is becoming a real factor in culinary economics. By means of rotary motion, the mixer, the beater, the combination of these two have come to relieve the back, arm and hand, and where electrically driven, cause no waste of time. Electric Rotaries
To begin with, these fairy-like machines are somewhat like and unlike patent medicine advertisements. A like because they claim to do many things, and unlike because they can and do fulfill their claims. For example, they beat eggs, mixed bread dough, mayonnaise,
stir cake batter, frostings, dressings, whipped cream, mashed potatoes, grind nuts, spices, and meat, drive some ice cream freezers, turn the food chopper, have grinding and buffing wheels for sharpening cutlery and polishing silver.
In fact, they are companions not idly to be cast aside. Housewives' bad mixers. This will especially appeal to the housewife mayonnaisely, because many a good mixture has been wasted by inefficient mixings by the mixer being culled away suddenly, etc. Then too, many a mayonnaise is never born at all because the housewife or the cook hasn't the time today.
Where the mixer is electrically driven, time is added onto the menage. And while the mayonnaise is forming, the cook is performing elsewhere. Egg beating, cream whipping, batter beating, all these take time. Now, with the electric machine, the home can revel in souffles and cake. It can buy coffee in the bean and grind it with no effort.
Here is a real epicurean saving. For coffee in the bean and grinding it at home saves the volatile essences of the coffee, which gives to perfect coffee the added aroma and full flavor. These machines grind cutlery and not exceedingly slow, and so can add finesse to a slice of meat.
As with the mayonnaise mixing, these utilitarian investments take the guesswork out of cake, meringues, batters. Improper mixing is an immorality not easily cleansed from kitchens. Yet, these instruments with perfection of mechanical agitation
do the mixing with assurance and become real vice chasers. Imagine all things being right. You can be sure that success will come to your cakes, sauces, breads, rolls, pies, cookies, donuts, cheese dishes, puddings, sauces. Remember that lumpy cream sauce? Well, no more of that.
Your sauces and your mashed vegetables will be lumpless. Removing doubt removes nerve strain in a kitchen. And maybe the cook without nerve strain will be affable and a comforting dweller in your holes. The new machines. Among the best machines is one so made as to effectively chop food and meat,
grind coffee, slice vegetable and fruits, etc., etc. Has with its attachment a hot water and ice container to be used as a bath if stirring must needs be done in a cold or hot medium. soup strainer and colander connection, ice cream freezer attachment, a meat slicer, a great comfort and saving of meat. This motor has three speeds.
You may have never felt the need of these types of workers, but then you never knew the use of the radiogram until you used it. Don't you hate to strain and persuade large quantities? The strain is gone from straining large quantities now. This is gently done by the coaxing electric strainer and colander device. One mixer is also accompanied by a cabinet if desired.
It is finished in white and is made especially for this device and houses comfortably all its attachments. It has an enameled metal top and does not add much to the total cost of machine. Another power unit advertises two speeds and has all the above attachments. It comes with a metal table with a shelf open on which all the work can be done with comfort. Smaller craft.
If you don't want a machine that can do so much, there is one on the market electrically driven, which beats eggs, mixes mayonnaise, angel cake and light batter, mashes potatoes and fluffs them if mixed with butter and cream, mixes custard, souffles, etc. It has a small half-HP motor of fine construction designed for 110 voltage. It is necessary in this case to state whether your current is direct or alternating, DC or AC.
This motor can run on either direct or alternating if the speed control device is not to be used. But the speed control in this instrument is its crowning glory. That is, you can mix rapidly or slowly, a performance the older type of mixers, small or large, could not do. It was racing speed or nothing.
All cooks know that some things take rapid beating or stirring, some other things slower agitation. The cook or housewife can, in the course of her experience with these newcomers into our kitchens, find new uses continually for them.
For example, this small motor has a speed regulator which ranges from 4,800 to 8,000 revolutions per minute. This motor takes from 25 watts, extra load, to 60 watts, heavy load. It is well to have a detachable motor as in this one, for when cleaning is necessary,
the motor remains, due to its hydrophobic fear of water elements, unharmed. The beater itself here is the ancient and honorable Dover type. So you see, it is not so foreign to your kin. Time in the mixer. 1,000 revolutions is all you can affect in a minute, no matter how red you may be.
This machine turns 2,000 revolutions, outrushing the Russians and all Central Europe. Some Evolutions In from 1 to 5 and 10 minutes can eggs, frostings, and mayonnaise be accomplished. Full speed for heavy mixtures, half speed for lighter, a gram of cream can be had in less than 5 minutes. A gallon of oil in relation to a mayonnaise dressing took but 10 minutes to be used up.
Now, can you beat it? Hasn't this phrase lost its slangy significance? This little angel weighs but 2 and 3 quarter pounds, and its lightness is one of its charms. Requirements All these machines should be easily attached to wall or lighting sockets or outlets.
Electric They must be easily cleaned. The motor must be protected from you and foodstuffs, and you must be protected from it. All attachments must attach easily. When easily is used, it is meant to the limit of ease.
All parts must fit, so that the doing of a new operation is not accompanied with dread. It must be a pleasure to depart from coffee grinding to turning the ice cream pale and polishing silver. Now, kitchening is no endurance test. The fatigue is eliminated. Your days may not be so stirring, but at the end of them, you will feel like the theater and whatnot.
The hand-turned cake and bread mixers are better than mixing by hand and spoon. But if possible, the electrically driven mixers, which come in many styles and prices, will give you more than comfort and will outlast many a cook. The hand-turned stoners, buffers, grinders, etc. are very efficient, but not quite the joy an electrically driven unit may be in an electrically conducted menage.
These machines are utopian agitators, agitating for food and helping the kitchen workers of the world. End of Section 25
