A NEW GAS COOKING APPARATUS.
Mr. Phillips of Skinner Street, Snow Hill, whose "gas bath-boiler" we noticed in the Spectator of the 22d of October 1859, has just intro- duced another adaptation of gas to cooking purposes,—exemplifying its usefulness and economy. The new apparatus consists of a simple gas burner, placed in the centre of a small stand about four inches in diameter, and the same in height. On the top of this stand is placed a round iron frame twelve inches in diameter, so contrived as to sustain a thin sheet iron drum or oven, of equal diameter to the iron frame and the same number of inches in height. The top of this drum is enclosed. On the frame is a sheet of iron, on which is placed the meat to be cooked. Access to it is obtained by a door in the drum. This simple little apparatus, Mr. Phillips tells us, will cook "four pounds of pota- toes, and five pounds of ribs of beef with one pennyworth of gas " ; and for bread and pastry it is "invaluable." The machine can be used any- where, even on the top of a dining-room table, without injuring it. It requires no attention. Bachelors at chambers would almost find a wife in it, and that too at a -coat of 11. 10s. It is called a "gas oven and boiler," and can be made to any size.
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