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The Victorian range cooker. Kitchen ranges, also known as 'kitcheners', 'cooking ranges' or just 'ranges', were what everyone cooked with in Victorian and Edwardian times - unless of course they were still using the older open fire cooking. Some such ranges were still in use even after electric and gas ovens became available, and a large number ...
The basic arrangement of a Victorian style cast-iron kitchen fire with its limited cooking facilities. The ovens enabled cooking meals that required long, slow cooking, such as meat stews and rice puddings, and the hotplates enabled kettles to be boiled and saucepans to be heated.
Nevertheless, by 1914, the use of the coal burning range in working class homes was rapidly giving way to cooking by gas. It was in sanitary arrangements where the contrast between the working class terraced house and middle class villa was at its starkest. Bathrooms were rare at this social level. Few houses had running water beyond one cold ...
16 de feb. de 2021 · A cast iron range was in most Victorian homes. Here I discuss the different types, how they worked, how to cook on them and their demise.
22 de ene. de 2013 · Some key areas to consider in Victorian Kitchen Design. Kitchen walls: the wall coverings should be practical and easy to clean – brick shaped tiles or wipe clean wallpaper are perfect and very Victorian. Kitchen cupboard handles: these should be functional and unfussy in a matt rather than shiny finish.
In the early 1930s, gas range manufacturers found a way to hide the gas manifold behind the sheet metal body, and cookers on spindly cabriole legs quickly assumed a new marketing persona as the chest of drawers range. Covers that pulled down over the burner left the appliance hardly recognizable as a stove, according to ads.
In the Victorian period, it was universally understood that the kitchen was used only for cooking. Washing-up, scrubbing vegetables and all the messy, low-status activities that involved water were done in the scullery. Even the smallest Victorian houses had a separate scullery, and it was rare for sinks to be installed in kitchens before the ...
