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Just an idea.. Since this knob keeps breaking, perhaps it is on the burner used most often, (we all tend to have a "favorite" burner, that we use more than the others). If that is the case, switching the damaged knob with it's twin from the less often used burner could add years to it's life.

full of water If nothing else, all that water standing in the tub means it still holds water, so at least you know the tub seal and hopefully the inner hoses are still good.

Growing up my grandmother and my aunts taught me to never waste any bit of food when cooking, and to try to save money and stretch the food budget without sacrificing nutrition or taste, so I kept track this week of just how far I managed to stretch a chicken, and what the final cost was...

Quaker corn meal It's carried in all the grocery stores here. Quaker cornmeal is a coarser grind than bagged cornmeal meant for baking. People in this are use it to make cornmeal mush, or to bread items for deep frying.

truly silent The only truly silent fridge I know of ever existing were gas models, either an older servel, or a new model. Pricy, but silent. Available for natural gas or propane. Here is a link to lehmans non electric, the link should take you directly to the page listing their gas...

caloric electric Back to the subject of the thread though, this makes the second electric caloric stove I have seen. I have seen several gas calorics, but my friend Lisa has a sibling of this stove, same control panel, white enamel top, coil burners, solid black glass oven door. Until this...

solid plate burners When I was a teenager, my mother had a stove with those burners. Granted, the stove was worn out anyway, (holes rusted through the oven liner, enamel on the stovetop beat to hell, etc etc.) Her brother and his wife had owned the stove before her, and she only took it...

breaking vs slicing Funny enough, my grandmother always cut her cornbread in wedges, as soon as she removed it from the oven. She said if you waited even a minute all the hot steam would start condensing in the bread and make the bread heavy. However, her flitter bread was always broken...

cornbread.. My grandmother taught me to make cornbread, and it always started with setting the oven to 400 degrees, (425 if you are in a hurry or have a slow oven), and putting about 2 Tbsp butter in an iron skillet, and put the skillet in the upper third of the oven while it preheats...

cornmeal You could steal the needed tablespoon from a box without it making too much difference to your cornbread, or I'm sure in a pinch you could use something else, so long as it's a coarsely ground grain, like whole wheat flour, or possibly even crushed cornflakes. In the chocolate pie...

My brother bought a 19 inch Vizio smart tv at Walmart for about 230 dollars, he loves it, and I have to admit, it's pretty nice that netflix, hulu, pandora radio, amazon prime and so forth are all built in to the TV instead of using a separate box like I use for my RCA floor model It was also...

omg! It's the dream machine! And it's pank! Lol. Seriously, that is pretty much my dream machine, right down to the pricing. Unfortunately shipping it or taking the road trip to go get it is far out of my budget. I suppose you are right, distance is the main issue for most of us. There are...

Speaking of minimal circuits.. In my grandparent house, the ones on my mother's side, 7 rooms, a kitchen, living room, sitting room, bathroom, and 2 bedrooms, all operated on 3 breakers. There was another breaker for the electric stove, and one installed when I was in high school for the...

knob and tube and other old wiring Having lived in houses with about every sort of wiring known, including bojack jobs that would never pass any sort of code, and properly installed wiring of every variety, including knob and tube, I can say from my experience it's not usually the old wiring...

craigslist Believe it or not, I have practically haunted craigslist for months, and the only ones I have found were several hours away and severely overpriced, as in, this ratty old thing from gramma's barn is gonna make us rich, type overpricing. 200 to 300 dollars for a 40 year old washer...

bonus A bonus, actually my own personal holy grail, would be if it's a full skirt model, instead of a half skirt with the empty space underneath, but I don't dare hope for that much. As a side note, does anyone know why maytag never made a full skirt model? All the other companies did back in...

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I'm looking for a wringer washer, and can't find one locally. It seems anyone in my area who has one still uses it and has no intentions of giving it up. (Trust me, I have stopped and asked at random houses where I saw one on the porch or sitting out...

Electric I grew up with the choice of electric or wood, depending on the season and which relative I was staying with at the time, so I suppose I am biased. The times I have lived somewhere with gas, I always hated it. The cabinets walls and ceilings in the kitchen got dirty faster, the...

jiffy cornbread I might use one or two boxes a year of their cornbread mix, to me it is too sweet to be cornbread, so I serve it as breakfast muffins with tons of butter, lol. Their other mixes I use by the truckload. Muffin mix, cake mix, even frosting mix. Cheap, easy, and just the right...