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PAGE TWELVE foods are cooked in half the usual time. Yet this heat, up to 1650 degrees, is always under thermostatic control. This results in cooler cooking since radiant heat travels in a straight line, like light, and is concentrated on the object to be cooked. For infra-red cooking, incidentally, it is claimed that it retains natural juices, gives even browning and keeps meat tender. THER new appliances for home and com- ' mercial establishments undergoing labora- tory research and testing are different types of gas-fired refrigeration systems, a direct gas- fired baseboard heater for homes and public buildings, built-in double ovens with upper sec- tion for roasting and broiling and lower for : ONTARIO TODAY hours, the control keeping the heat at 140 de- grees. This also permits quicker thawing of frozen foods. Recently approved are a variety of incin- erators which permit automatic odor-free gar- bage disposal. These gas-fired incinerators can be installed almost anywhere inside the.home where there is an air outlet, thus doing away with some garbage cans. Being tested are radiant heat cooking sur- faces for kitchen ranges. These use a ceramic burner perforated with hundreds of tiny heat outlets. When heated, the ceramic surface gen- erates infra-red rays so intense that even frozen A second room in your basement . « « With Natural Gas With natural gas, there's no need to set aside basement space for fuel storage . . . no need to cramp your plans for a really big recreation room, a downstairs den, a games room, or any other basement project. Natural gas furnaces are space-savers, too . . . just about the size of an office filing cabinet, and available in harmonizing finishes. Have that second room. Make your basement wide open for new ideas. See your local gas company. TRANS-CANADA PIPE LINES LIMITED SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961 Automatic light, baking, and fuel cells for con- verting the chemical energy of natural gas into electricity. With regard to this latter de- velopment, some gas officials explain that in future years fuel cells may power the blowers: in home heating systems, making natural gas forced air heating systems completely independent of electric power interruptions. Natural gas furnaces even now provide at least' some heat in the case of electric power failure. The approvals laborator- ies are .part of the gas indus- try's safety policy, to make the use of natural gas as safe as humanly possible. T the Canadian Gas As- sociation annual meeting at Banff late in June, S. F. Wikstrom of the American Gas Association stated that there were about one half million gas lights in existence today, more than ever before. He forecast that in the next decade dependable high in- tensity gas street lights will be in use in towns, cities and villages throughout North America. Looking to the home of 1971, Mr. Wikstrom pointed that gas lamps for the home will "give us the warm, nos- talgic, soft-as-moonlight glow no other type of light: has ever duplicated. If you want a brighter light for arriving guests, for example, these lamps will give us almost double the illumination, with the mere flick of a switch." Other features of the 1971 home which he prophesied in- cluded kitchens which will vanish from sight, bathroom mirrors which will never fog, swimming pools which can be used all year round and wide use of infra-red gas heaters.