ISSUE 77, BEGINNINGS, Part 3: The Coming of the Cook Stove
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The Coming of the Cook Stove We’ve all heard of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of a stove. Perhaps you presumed that the device he created was intended for cooking. No—it was a heating apparatus, a metal lined fireplace that consumed fuel more efficiently that an open fireplace and projected heat into rooms. The metal cook stove did not emerge until the 1830s in the United States, and when it did it caused a seismic change in home cookery.
ISSUE 77, BEGINNINGS, Part 3: The Coming of the Cook Stove
ISSUE 77, BEGINNINGS, Part 3: The Coming of…
ISSUE 77, BEGINNINGS, Part 3: The Coming of the Cook Stove
The Coming of the Cook Stove We’ve all heard of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of a stove. Perhaps you presumed that the device he created was intended for cooking. No—it was a heating apparatus, a metal lined fireplace that consumed fuel more efficiently that an open fireplace and projected heat into rooms. The metal cook stove did not emerge until the 1830s in the United States, and when it did it caused a seismic change in home cookery.