AUNT PRUDENCE

The Cost of Fuels

I hear people saying everywhere: "Oh, we don't bake our own bread any more. Fuel is so high it doesn't pay." But they don't know just what it will cost them to bake their own bread. No one ever has known. We are getting these figures for you ab- solutely for the first time they have ever been obtained on a common comparable standard.

The Portland Railway, Light & Power company and the Northwestern Electric company guarantee these figures for electric heat, the Portland Gas & Coke company for gas, and the Holman Fuel company theirs for both slabwood and first-class fir.

First we give the exact figures of the cost of heating a cold six-burner electric range, to the right heat, and baking six loaves of home-made bread in 45 minutes.

Next we give the figures for exact- ly the same conditions on a gas range.

Then the Holman Fuel company gives us the cost of heating a cold six-griddle stove or range and bak- ing six loaves of home-made bread 45 minutes with slabwood fuel and with the best fir wood. This is a definite, fixed amount of heat (a moderate fire) and can be used as a standard of measure and comparison.

Second, we asked them for the cost of a hot oven fire, taking a biscuit baking fire as our standard here, and third, we asked them for the average cost of a top burner fire, averaging their lowest and highest flame. This it to get a standard comparison. We shall need to know each price later when we figure the cost of cooking on top of our ranges.

FUEL COSTS

The following statements arranged way, so it is not fair to ask you to

for comparison and reference: charge your recipe with full heat.

Oven Heat. _,, , . .. _, ,

Electricity as a Fuel.

Cost to bake not more than 6 loaves , . , . .,

of bread at once, for 45 min: Jth%d ™n* peoplf guess «» the,

With electricity $0.0164 costt of .bakm* S1X+ loaves of br*ad

With gas .. .0220 electrically and got guesses all the

With fir wood ........!!.!!! '. !o340 way from 5 cents up; most people

With slabwood 0310 guessed about 10 cents. Now you

Cost of medium (as for bread) fire people who say you don't do your

per hour: own baking any more because fuel is

With electricity $0.0171 so high, what do you say to these

With gas 0255 figures. What do you think of

™}}£ flr. wo° d 2oaa 1 64-100 cents for six loaves of bread,

WCoV1o%brt°dfire7oVbaki-ngbisS or lew than 1-3 of a cent per loaf

15 min. (10 min. to heat oven): to bake bread?

With electricity $0.0141. To" maLsay ll can t be d°?e\.,If

With gas 0190 s°i both the companies would like

Wiht fir wood '!!!!!!.'!!!."!!!! !0230 to demonstrate it to you.

Cost of hot (biscuit) fire per hour: While these figures were being pre-

With electricity $0.0244 sented this week, we thought it would

With gas 0470 be more interesting to you than any-

With wood 0552 thing else to let each of these people

Fuel for Top Burner or Stove. speak for the fuel they represent, giv-

Cost ing some factors that enter into a

per hour. real working comparison of various

Electricity, average heat $0.0013 fuels, other than the absolute cost

Electricity, low 0006 Next the Portland Gas & Coke com-

iS average heai 0114 pany wiU present t0 y0U the COSt °f

Gat on oife-thirdO '. '. .' '. '. '. '. '. '. \ '. '. !o070 bakinS and other cooking with gas,

Gas, simmering 0040 under the same given specifications

Fir ' wood '. ............ '. !0408 as the electric companies present to-

Slabwood 0286 day, and will also state many other

(Figure % use of wood). advantages in the use of gas besides

Important Notice. price. Those of you who have elec-

D„„„,„ „«.!„.„ ,.. * *•_ „ _». . trie or gas ovens can test them now,

inr?n,%UeSffesWredreSerfoerneSiethf; «* if £»/ ^T^^e 'SoSoSSS

baking or using top griddle heat in ^ VneP', And ??}n£?m thC companIes

wood stoves please figure half heat, what 1S the trouble-

according to the tables. This time of When I think of what may be in

year, and especially at meal time, you store for these big corporations along

are sure to have a fire in your stove tnis line- J am &lad tnat J am only

and be cooking something else, any- AUNT PRUDENCE.