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Before the days of washing machines, dryers, electric irons, and BBQ grills, a lot of cooking and washing was done outdoors. It was messy and hot. Very often laundry was such a big job that it was only done one day a week and took up most of the day for an average sized family, which were larger than modern families. That meant a lot of space was needed to heat large tubs of water -often brought from an outside well - plus have space to setup scrub and rinse tubs and clothes lines to hang up sheets and clothes.gardener wrote: ↑Tue. Jun. 30, 2020 8:34 amI suppose something I don't feel like I comprehend is,
for laundry stoves, many were portable, so they would be taken outside?
but for iron heating stoves, they would be setup with their own chimney in the house/hotel? ... cause these three recent photos of small iron heating stoves look ultra portable; would people do the ironing outside?