Cooking box

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Cooking box, late 19th century

A cooking box is a container lined with thermal insulation in which individual pots with heated food can be placed so that they finish cooking for a period of hours without additional energy supply.

Cooking box Danish design 2009
Cooking box from the Frankfurt kitchen , 1926–1930, lid open.

history

The Kochkiste owes its emergence and its spread to the endeavors widespread towards the end of the 19th century to show broad sections of the population opportunities for economical management. It also made housekeeping easier for working women, who could briefly boil the food in the morning and finish cooking it in the cooking box while they were away.

In times of scarce fuel and heating material, the cooking box ensured the preparation of warm meals with a minimum consumption of heating material, which led to its increased use in times of war (shortage). During the First World War, for example, the use of the cooking box was specifically treated in various cookbooks and its use was propagated. And even after the Second World War , the cooking boxes were e.g. B. used during the Berlin blockade to cook food with the electricity that is only available briefly at night and let it finish cooking by noon.

In the Frankfurt kitchen designed in 1926 , the forerunner of the modern built-in kitchen geared towards work efficiency, a cooking box was also planned for economic reasons.

More recently, the idea of ​​the cooking box has been taken up again by means of insulating containers that are adapted to the shape of the pot. Also new is the idea of ​​using a flexible cover for the pot to allow more flexible use of different pot sizes. Such a “cooking sack” is also easier to store temporarily than a rigid box.

construction

Cooking boxes were either self-made (from a basket, a chest or a box that was covered with a blanket and stuffed with newspaper, straw, hay or the like) or industrially produced since 1900. Karl Drais is considered a possible inventor . According to the same principle, rice or the like can finish cooking under the covers.

  • Construction of a cooking box during the First World War. Photos: Marie Goslich
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Cooking sack

One variant is the cook sack . The container consists of two cylinders of different sizes sewn from fabric. The space is covered with insulating material, e.g. B. Wood wool filled.

See also

literature

  • Kurt Versmolt: The cooking box and a rich selection of dishes to go with it . S. Schnurpfeil, Leipzig 1900, LCCN  85-666778 , Open Library : OL2670556M
  • Cook in the box! The cookbook for the cooking box, from practice / published by a country woman . Published by Fr. Bahn, 1904, LCCN  85-666827 , Open Library : OL2670604M
  • Luise Holle : The cooking box; an indispensable tool in every kitchen . H. Hillger, Berlin 1907, LCCN  52-057646
  • Marie Buchmeier: New cookbook for small households. 3 persons. 809 original recipes. Dedicated to young housewives and cooks . Josef Habbel , Regensburg around 1908, with a small treatise on the cooking box .
  • Ida Schuppli, Betty Hinterer: Grabnerhof cookbook - with special consideration of the cooking box - for use by middle-class housewives . Vienna 1913.
  • Ursula Bremm-Gerhards: Chances of solar cooking boxes as an adapted technology in developing countries , Fort Lauderdale - Breitenbach, Saarbrücken 1991, ISBN 3-88156-521-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lore Kramer: Rationalization of the Household and Women's Issues - The Frankfurt Kitchen and Contemporary Criticism ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 6) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hs-zigr.de
  2. ↑ "In the interest of the starving population - the foundation of the district assembly in the First World War" (p. 6; PDF; 4.2 MB)
  3. ↑ Esslinger Ortsgeschichte ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 94; PDF; 545 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / firmenhistoriker.de
  4. ↑ Kochkiste during the Berlin blockade
  5. ^ Cooking in the Box , Die Zeit , March 5, 1993
  6. ↑ Information about cooking bags and assembly instructions (PDF 1.3 MB).
  7. ↑ Hans-Erhard Lessing: Automobility Karl Drais and the incredible beginnings . Maxime Verlag, 2003, p. 456 ff.
  8. ↑ The cooking box and the cooking sack, their practical use and preparation as well as 25 recipes . - Potsdam: Stiftungsverlag, [1910] ( writings by the women's aid agency  ; issue 8).

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