On Sun, 19 May 2013 00:38:54 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "gregz" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Anytime old stuff is described, I think of my grandmothers coal
> > stove/oven.
> > Summertime must have been murder. Must have been mid fifties when she
> > switched to electric.
>
> That's why most older homes had summer kitchens. Often they were totally
> separate from the house.
>
That was part of it. The other part is that kitchen fires often
burned the entire house down.

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