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Post by ronruble on May 16, 2015 13:32:00 GMT -5
Interesting article about thermo cooking (with pic’ of Pre-A stoves) If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots? Link to Thermo cooking article
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Post by nana on May 16, 2015 19:00:16 GMT -5
Everything old is new again!
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Post by nana on May 16, 2015 19:00:29 GMT -5
Everything old is new again!
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Post by Chuckie on May 16, 2015 20:38:21 GMT -5
Everything old is new again! You can say THAT again!!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by pooka on May 17, 2015 13:00:54 GMT -5
I ran across this some time ago. I don't remember if I posted it or not, but I may have at least mentioned it. I found it while spending many hours searching anything on Chamber stove or ranges. I seem to remember pointing out that the caption for the one picture of the woman taking something out of the model 3942 says; "Image above: A Chambers Fireless Cooking Gas Range from the 1910s." It should say "from the late 1920s" since that model was made from about 1927-1930. Of the nineteen pictures & graphs, four are of Chambers stoves or are from one of their ads in the case of the "Photograph of a woman cooking dinner for six". Energy or step saving is nothing new. I remember reading the short biography of John E. Chambers that was published in INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT, Vol. 3, By Charles Roll, A.M., The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931. It says things like;"for the past thirty years conservation has been an idea growing yearly more potent", or "more economical utilization of heat". This has been a topic that come up whenever fuel is either expensive or in short supply. Today, we might sell it as a "Greener" way of cooking. It's always been a smarter way to cook, but it only becomes more popular when our pocketbook is pinched. We Americans are notorious wasters. The richer you are, the more you can afford to throw away. But American ingenuity has also been fertile ground for building a better mousetrap too. John Chambers got rich selling his idea. It make you wonder why someone isn't making a modern version of our stoves. They'd probably over-engineer with motherboards & processors that would make it as unreliable as other stoves. As we all know, "new & improved" doesn't necessarily mean better, it's just different. One stove I looked at getting before I discover Chambers was a Premier Pro Gas Range. One selling feature is minimal electronics. During a power failure, it can be match lit.
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