, 20 Friday, January 12, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli Kitchen Revolution Marked by Updated Appliances By SYBIL ZIMMERMAN From World Zionist Press Service revolutionary .What changes have taken place in the Israeli kitchen during the past 30 years? The changes in the Israeli kitchen can probably be Right in Your own Driveway! THE TUNE -UP MAN Certified by the National Automotive Institute of Excellence Comes to your home or office with the "garage-on-wheels." Valet service that doesn't cost one penny extra . • Expert diagnostic tune-up ■ Electronic analyzer.- all engine - systems • Professionally trained mechanics -• Perfect results assured Expanded Services Call Sanford Rosenberg for your car problems 398-3605 6-cyl. cars $31.50 includes EVERYTHING: Labor AND Parts. 4 and 8 cy. comparatively low Masterharge and BankAmericard summed up in three ideas: from p'tilia and primus to gas or electricity; from ice box to refrigerator; from wonder pot to oven. Most newcomers to Israel in the 1930s and 40's were introduced to kitchen "appliances" that were familiar to those already living in the new country, but certainly primitive by today's standards. The primus was a single burner kerosene portable stove; after you lit the wick, you pumped it to get a higher flame. Small ones were used for cooking, large ones for boiling laundry. P'tilia comes from the Hebrew word, ptil or wick. This, too, was a single burner portable kerosene cooking stove. What hap- pened when you wanted to bake a cake? You used the wonder pot (sir pelle in He- brew), a top-of-the-stove baking pot. The pan would bake a cake in 45 minutes to - an hour. By the 1950s, people began to buy two- or three-burner gas hot plates, but continued to bake in the wonder pot. For other baking, there was also a portable oven EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY! 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The real revolution in the Israeli kitchen took place between 1960 and 1967. With more money in many pockets and a large con- struction boom with build- ing of larger apartments, more space was allotted for the kitchen, giving more room for appliances. Refrigerators gradually began to replace iceboxes. Today, regular, push- button defrost, automatic defrost and frost-free re- frigerators are readily available in Israel. By the late 1960s, people were beginning to buy gas stoves and ovens combined. The most popular combina- tion was and still remains gas burners with electric oven. Less popular are stoves with both gas bur- ners and gas ovens. Electric stoves are the least popular because of the high con- sumption of electricity which is extremely expen- sive in Israel. Undoubtedly the first small appliance Israeli women began to buy were hand mixers or mixmasters. Even so, this still appears to be some- what of a luxury. Accord- ing to the Central Bureau of Statistics, in 1962, only 9.2 percent of all Israeli families owned a mixer; by 1968, this had more than doubled to 21.8 per- cent; today 43.1 percent of all families own a mixer. The trend toward time- saving kitchen devices has not yet really reached its peak in Israel. Juicers, toas- ters, and blenders, as well as toaster ovens and waffle irons, are not yet common property. Many Israelis do have the locally-made table-top grill, similar to a waffle iron, but for toasting sandwiches, fish, hambur- gers, etc. appliance Electrical stores in Israel carry a wide variety of appliances. How many Israelis actually own these appliances due to their very high cost is an- other question. In the kibutz, one of the most indigenous forms of "There must not be one law for the Jews and another for the Arabs. We must stand firm by the an- cient principle enunciated in the Torah: 'One law and one manner shall be for you and the stranger that sojourneth with you.' I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish state by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people as a whole will be judged by what we do, or fail to do, in this state." —Chaim Weizmann living in Israel, the kitchen has gone through a revolu- tion as well. Today, kibutz kitchens are highly moder- nized and efficient opera- tions with gas, electric and steam stoves and ovens, large room for food prepara- tion and storage, huge freez- ing and refrigeration facilities and capabilities for serving meals to hun- dreds and even thousands of people including those on special diets. Each kibutz apartment usually has a small kitch- enette fitted with electric kettle, sometimes one or two gas or electric bur- ners, a small electric re- frigerator, kitchen sink and minimal facilities for cooking. It is not uncom- mon to find toaster, toas- ter oven, hand mixer and waffle iron in the indi- vidual's kitchenette. 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