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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.
16 de feb. de 2021 · For the working classes, small gas ovens could easily fit into their tiny sculleries, allowing them to use their back rooms just as a living space. Some replaced their cast iron range with an enamelled and tiled combination range in the 1930s, which was more compact and took on the appearance of an open fire.
4 de dic. de 2020 · But for the Victorians, the cast-iron fixtures that flooded the market in the 19th century for fireplaces and heating appliances allowed not only for their homes to be kept heated, but for a...
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 ...
The open range. The history of the cooking fire is hundreds of thousands year old and is common to every country and civilization on earth. Since ancient times fires were made on the ground with wood as a fuel and this tradition continued in an almost unchanged form up until the 18 th century. The kitchen range put an end to this tradition and ...
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 ...
