Your Cooking Range ... family meals depend on it (electric range)

Instruction sheet with four blue-toned photographs of a pan on an electric ring, a hand on the control knob, a brush on the heating coil and a cloth wiping an enclosed unit, under 'guard those heating wires'. The technique is faint; plain-folks is the closest label, as ordinary hands in a home kitchen demonstrate the steps.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Plain folks

Date

1943

Period

Second World War

Made by

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Roosevelt Administration

Leader

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Audience

Domestic public

Purpose

Warn or inform

Themes

Home front, Science and technology

Event

World War II

Regime

Roosevelt administration

Leader

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are

Source

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1136B (NAID 514665).

Your COOKING RANGE
... family meals depend on it
If it's an ELECTRIC RANGE
guard those heating wires
TO SAVE WIRES AND CURRENT
x Don't spill food on open unit
• Use pans to fit unit
• Switch to lower heat when
food starts to cook
• Let spilled foods char on open
units ....cool ....brush off.
• Beware damaging wires with
sharp tools or touching live
wire with metal.
• Wipe enclosed
unit with
damp cloth
[imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
[imprint:] ☆U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—520004
"Make your Equipment last"...No. 3
For further details see Folder AWI-8
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE