A portable stove made from a container filled with liquid kerosene, in which a wick was submerged, with a metal frame placed above it.
The end of the wick was lit with a match. The fuel would rise through the wick, evaporate, and burn. Cooking pots were placed on the metal frame above.
The heat produced by the wick stove was relatively low and was generally used for slow cooking or for baking with a “Wonder Pot.”
In the 1930s and 1940s, there was a kerosene distributor named Ben-Zioni who supplied the villages of Herut, Kfar Hess, and Tel Mond.
The kerosene was brought to the center of the moshav in barrels, and he would pump it from there into a barrel placed on his wagon.
Before Passover, he would call the children and send them to their mothers to announce:
“Ben-Zioni has special kerosene today — kosher for Passover!”
Asa Bartov