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title: Your Cooking Range ... family meals depend on it (gas range burners)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-cooking-range-gas-burners-1943/
description: Instruction sheet with three blue-toned photographs of hands lifting out, wiring clear and brushing the burners of a gas range, with bullet-point steps.
section: Collection
---

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# Your Cooking Range ... family meals depend on it (gas range burners)

Instruction sheet with three blue-toned photographs of hands lifting out, wiring clear and brushing the burners of a gas range, with bullet-point steps. The persuasive technique is faint here; the closest honest label is plain-folks, since ordinary hands in a home kitchen model the task and the headline ties it to 'family meals'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Your COOKING RANGE
... family meals depend on it
If it's a GAS RANGE
keep the burners clean
• Lift out the surface
burners for thorough
washing
• Wash.... then
clear clogged
openings with
a fine wire
• Use brush to clean
inside burner tubes
and air shutters
[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. 2
For further details see Folder AWI-8
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

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