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I love chicken-fried steak.  I like to spice up the flour with some cayenne pepper, paprika, and allspice.  And I always make gravy: 3 Tbs flour into the hot fat for a minute, then 2 cups of milk and lots of pepper, stirred around till thick.   As for the restaurants mentioned above, I agree...

All I know about venting the old Chambers units is what I’ve read, and some information I got from Rich Allen of Antique Vintage Appliances in Tucson, Arizona.  I was considering getting a 7961, but they are expensive from a restoration shop.

I have always liked KFC chicken, and I still do, as long as it comes from a properly-staffed location.  I also like their slaw, but we don’t buy any other sides.  The potatoes in particular are revolting.   I’m kind of proud of myself for coming up with almost everything on that list from my...

I love it when things go off topic.  The links between one idea and the next are often fascinating.   But going back on topic for a while, I’ll add that the Chambers in the picture is a model 7961, one of four models in the ‘79’ or ‘Imperial’ line.  These were intended for “large houses with...

That model is exactly what I remember from childhood, wheat and all.    For a couple of decades, I refused to even look at a crockpot, because they sort of took over the world for a while, and it seemed like there wasn’t a meal on earth that hadn’t been cooked to death in one of those things...

Never used, and never taken care of.

Everything I have found has been through dailylister.com.  It doesn’t save the manual checking every day, but it covers the whole country.  I’m willing to travel a bit for what I want, so it works for me. 

It’s odd looking without the clock on the left.  Is this BOL from 1964?

Wolfgang Puck.  That’s the one we have.   I suppose it’s somewhat noisy, but it’s a lot quieter than the very old salt-and-ice electric that we used to have.  That thing would wake the dead.   In all honesty, I would totally have stuck with that old contraption, but we had to make a special...

We’ve had one for several years and we love it.  I’m at the office and I can’t remember the brand, and I also can’t remember what we paid for it.  It was probably $300, more or less.   No matter how long you run the machine, the ice cream or sorbet never freezes beyond ‘soft serve’...

How I wish I could find a couple of these—a right and a left, to make a mock side-by-side.  Of course, I’d want them in either Sherwood Green or Stratford Yellow.  And preferably the CTI-130.  There’s a reason I’m still waiting!!   One thing I know I’ll never see are the amazing commercial...

The best approach to vintage is to be open to all brands and at least a decade of possible model years.  I languish in sorrow because I want very specific items that may never be available.

Speaking of indoor grills, has anyone here ever used one or even seen one in real life?  I’ve always liked the idea, but the reality of stoking the fire and cleaning the mess and having the residue out in the open in the kitchen doesn’t seem very practical.

I got one of these Brevilles years ago, and I love it. It was my only oven for about 2 years, a period of anger and frustration between the succession of modern ranges that ruined everything I baked and the 1954 Frigidaire RT-70 that is now my pride and joy.   The Breville bakes remarkably...

I noticed long ago on a gardening site that I used to frequent, that my comments were routinely ignored.  I thought I was writing interesting things.  But I also know that, unfortunately, something about me is very off-putting in real life, so I started to think that my strangeness was appearing...

Don’t those look nice?  I’m no fan of avocado, but it looks really good here.

What color are those appliances?  Surely the refrigerator was painted to match.

Off topic, but the Ponce Market transformation reminds me of one my most memorable moments on good ole Ponce de Leon Avenue.  Some years ago, in the late ’90s, I actually saw a hooker ambling down the Ponce sidewalk on her invalid-care, gliding WALKER!!!  And apparently, she was about to turn a...

Tom, the old Sears center on Ponce has undergone quite a shocking transformation.  It’s right at the heart of a very revitalized area, and the building has the great fortune of sitting right on top of the Beltline.  It is now an easy walk from there to Inman Park and the new Krog Market area.  I...

Another irony of this ad is that by the end of 1941—even before Pearl Harbor—large factories across the country were being converted to wartime production, from airplane parts to munitions.  Manufacture of large appliances and similar items essentially came to a complete stop.    That was...