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A KITCHENETTE STOVE We hunted for some time to find the proper stove for this playhouse, for just as the sinks would give our backs unnecessary bending, so would most of the small stoves, in which the ovens are set below the cooking surface of the stove. Our present stove fills the bill nicely in having a high oven for baking as well as a broiler frying has no legitimate place in a kitchen- - THE POTS AND PANS EACH HAVE THEIR HOOKS.
Fitting Shelves to Space and Service ette apartment - but it is unnecessarily large, fitting in without an inch to spare.
Two burners instead of four, with the simmerer and the oven four to six inches shallower, would serve the needs of a kitchenette cook just as well and leave the extra space for other uses you have to count the inches in so small a kitchen. Some day stove manufacturers will build kitchenette stoves which will exactly fit our needs as well as our space, but not until they are convinced that we women really don't want to break our backs any longer. The shelf under this stove comes in very handy to carry the bread box, scales, and pressure cooker. The small ice box, which ordinarily needs refilling but every other day, stands on a cement base set into the floor from which a pipe drains off the drip of the melting ice. Contrary to rule, the milk bottle takes its place beside the ice as does the lettuce washed and placed in a cheesecloth bag. The floor of the ice box holds the butter, cheese, eggs, and cream; the first shelf contains the half-a-can portions in glass jars and any cooked foods, while the top shelf is reserved for the fresh fruits. It is surprising how much food the little box will hold.
KITCHENETTE DISH WASHING Stretched from one faucet in the sink to the other is a little wire rack which holds the soap, cork knife polisher, and the dish mop, a tinseled one. The flat suction sink stopper and rubber dish scraper hang above the sink. Sievelike cups cover the faucet ends to prevent the water from splashing. - No dishpans hang on these walls and why should they? -for the always abundant hot water of the modern apartment makes both teakettles and dishpans merely hangers-on of other days, when all the water had Fitting Shelves to Space and Service to be heated and sparingly used. A paper towel or paper napkin wipes off the plates which under the fall of hot water from the hot-water faucet are automatically washed, or at most need but a switch or two with a dish mop to take their places in the wire dish drainer. The rack is then lifted into the sink for a moment, and the scalding water poured over the dishes, which are soon as dry and shiny as any you would wish to see. Only the glasses and silver need to be wiped with a tea towel, which is quickly washed right in the kitchen sink on a little aluminum washboard that you slip over the left hand, one of the newest devices found in the house-furnishing stores. Modern kitchenette dish washing has several strong points of which to boast:
No greasy dishwater - for it all runs down the sink as used.
No smelly dishcloth or dish towels, for it takes but one tea towel for glasses and silver.
No horrid pots and pans, for you can not so dub lightweight utensils.
No manicured hands ruined by dish washing, for your hands scarcely touch the water.