Kitchen Front

The kitchen will soon have its prewar face lifted. Items planned for general postwar distribution:

P: A prefabricated glass kitchen (by Libbey-Owens-Ford) with glass oven, refrigerator, cabinets, etc. (see cut).

P: A one-wall kitchen combination. Most revolutionary feature: a refrigerator with separate drawers instead of a single door, for handier food storage and conservation of cold air.

P: Refrigerators with revolving shelves, sterilizing lamps to kill bacteria, ice-water taps, ice-cube ejectors, food-freezing compartments.

P: A stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat.

P: Fluorescent lighting units inconspicuously recessed in the kitchen ceiling.

P: An electric garbage disposer which grinds the garbage up, flushes it away.

P: A hydraulic dishwasher which also dries the dishes.

P: An electronic device, called the precipitron, which removes all dust and smoke from the kitchen air by drawing it into a duct, where dirt particles are given a positive electric charge and deposited on a negatively charged plate. In smoky Pittsburgh tests the device extended the curtain laundering interval from 2-3 weeks to 8-10 weeks.

P: An electric range, with built-in pressure cooker, broiler, toaster, etc., each with electronic temperature control.

P: A cordless electric iron.

P: Push-button machinery to open & close windows.

P: An electric clothes dryer. CJ Ceramic stoves in any desired color.

P: Plastic dishes in any color which will not break, crack, discolor or absorb.

In the discussion stage is a kitchenless house. The food department, concealed in the living room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken!"

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