Whirlpool stainless steel french-door refrigerator, electric smoothtop range w/ convection and hidden-control dishwasher
Sanitaire commercial vacuum, model SC888
KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer
Carrier Infinity Series 3-ton central AC (not a heat pump) paired to an 80K btu/h NG furnace
Kenmore (LG) front-loading washer, model 41162 and Kenmore (WP) dryer, model 60222
What are your dream machines yet to be found?
Speed Queen rear-control (mechanical) front-load washer with gas dryer
Hobart-built KitchenAid dishwasher
Vintage fans: 1980s Galaxy pedestal fan (with opaque blue blades), green 1970s-vintage Manning-Bowman box fan
All sorts of Eureka F&G/Hoover direct-air uprights through the years--grew up with them
Various 1980s/1990s small appliances: Toastmaster, Black and Decker, Proctor Silex, Hamilton Beach--grew up with them
If room allows:
1980s Kenmore 90-series washer and dryer
Late 70s/early 80s GE Filter-Flo washer and dryer
McCall or Koch commercial reach-in refrigerator/freezer
Lots of vintage window air conditioners.
What are your earliest and favorite appliance memories?
Listening to our late-1980s Kenmore DD washer (and watching the agitation cycle).
Running outside to our Rheem 2-ton (?) condenser every time the AC kicked on.
Tore apart so many things. Toasters, fans, vacuums, if it plugged into the wall, I took it apart, even the home computer. Got grounded for that one. Even took off the front panel of our Rheem furnace off at nine years old. It wasnt all that bad, though. I fixed my moms can opener and the oscillation gearcase on one of the fans. Repaired our Hoover Elite and, later our Panasonic Jet-Flo on many occasions. I never broke anything as a result of taking it apart, which my parents quickly learned.
Loved using our Hoover Elite vac. Grandma bought me my own, a Decade 80 at an auction, when I was seven. Unfortunately I burnt it up by sucking up a sock.
For some reason, I had a slight fear of the bathroom fan until about eight years old. It was a Nutone Scovill, original to the house, which was built in the mid-1980s. It had metal propeller blades, which I discovered when I shined a flashlight up through the grille. Spooked me out and swore it was going to fall into the bathtub and chop me up, haha. Also, Ive always wondered about the very faint rumbling noise up in the ceiling, I learned that we had a gable fan. I timidly went up the attic stairs to peek. Even though I was fascinated with fans (and collected a few of them, at least the plastic Walmart/Kmart/Pamida kind) metal fans scared me for some reason. Seeing its silhouette up in a dark attic was spooky. Looking back, you ought to see the kinds of fans Ive been around in my job!
I thought the range hood over the stove was to cool down hot food that had been cooked, not to exhaust. Mom cooked homemade chili and I couldnt wait for it to cool down, so I told her to turn on the "kitchen fan" (I thought it blew air over the stove, silly me). Learned that it pulled steam and grease away and out of the house at six years old.
The sound of our GE Potscrubber. Mom and Dad said I fell asleep to it when I was a baby.
Brave Little Toaster -- every time I saw the movie, I made sure to show appreciation to every household appliance in my home. I cried every time I saw the air conditioner scene. Even though we had a central air conditioner rather than a wall/window AC, Id go out to Rheem and told him how much I loved him.
What is the history of appliances you have owned?
Nothing too interesting. Circa-2005 Frigidaire kitchen appliances, circa-2000 Kenmore washer and dryer.
