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Invention
The first cooking stove was invented in 1735 by the French inventor François de Cuvilliés, It was mostly brick with iron sheets.The bricks were made into a holder for a heat source then slotted iron plates were put over it to hold the pots over a fire.
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Innovation 1
This change to the original stove lowered the cooking pot close to the heat source so it would cook more evenly and faster.
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Innovation 2
Benjamin Thompson contributed to the stove with a change to the classical chimmney he changed the ammount of airflow in chimmneys to make greater updeaft leaving to a more effecient cooking system.
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Innovation 3
The first gas stoves that James Sharp developed were a massive step forward making cooking faster, easier and safer. These first brought stoves into many houses and they became a very common appliance.
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Innovation 4
This Innovation added the use of piped gas to stoves where as previously they were closed systems like modern grills. This made it overall cheaper and slightly more efficient.
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Innovation 6
An AGA Cooker is a heat storage stove invented by Gustaf Dalén it works by storing heating in a heavy material like cast iron which can be heated by low intensity consistently burning heat source to cock food with residual heat.
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Innovation 5
The electric stove was invented by Thomas Ahearn the electric stove was a way of using electricity to power there cooking instead of gas or wood.
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