Applainces used for Home Ecomomics in your School & Educational Institutions

[nrones]

What a GREAT thread!

My kindergarten had a 1991 Candy (charme range - similar to my old exclusive) 600rpm. However it broke a year ago, so now I am volonteering and washing everything for my ex. kindergarten in my GO510 (that is in place near kindergarten) - doing a load per day because of it Candy GO510 is a workhorse, and it is now 2.5 years old still perfect

Anyway.. my primary school had first an old gorenje, than they bought new one in 2004 (Goreneje WA543) - no problems as far as I was informed.

Now secondary school has a Candy CN 63 T, from 2003 - replaced a pump in late 2007 because they thought machine doesn"t have a filter (it has a decorative cover so it can"t be seen) and in it they are washing mops they cleaned hallways with it every day - NEVER cleaned filter for 4 years LOL.. now they are cleaning it regularly

I know this is a thread of 20year+ washing machines, but this is my experience (and I still don"t have 20 years ).

cheers,
Dex

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL!!

 

[ozzie908]

Back in the day of high school

It was in the mid 70's and I cannot recall seeing a single automatic washer in HE all I do recall was seeing on the far side of the room a Hotpoint supermatic twin tub boiling away with all the T towels and dishcloths in and the wooden tongs waiting on top of the spinner. There were no dryers either there was a drying room which had the heating pipes from the boiler house running round god it was hot and humid in there...and always there were brilliant white towels as stiff as cards hanging on wooden rails.

 

[sudsreturn]

At my high school we had a Hoover Logic 1600 and matching dryer in the "flat". The flat was built with the school in the 1960's in the home ec block, it was used for child care and household management. They only used to use the washer and dryer for the tea towels used in the cooking classes. Apparently they did have a Keymatic from the the school was built. But that was way before I was there. I left school in 1995.

 

[peterh770]

The home ec classroom was outfitted with GE appliances and Singer sewing machines. I only remember washing a load of kitchen towels once.

 

[solsburian]

I can remember my First School had a grey Hoovermatic twin tub, in Middle School they had late 80's Brown/White Hotpoint that was replaced with a Candy around 2000/2001 when the School was refurbished. I can't remember what they had at High School. All 3 schools I went to had at least one Baby Belling.

In the building I work at in Uni we have a Zanussi ZDF2020 dishwasher in the Kitchen, which replaced a 3-4 year old Beko that flooded the floor (was well used and abused though).

 

[nrones]

curiosity..

Can you share a pic with me of that "baby Belling" so famuos all over the UK? And describe it too..
Looks quite like a legend xD

 

[jakeseacrest]

I was in HS from 89 to 93 and had culinary arts everyday. We had 3 classrooms that had late 80s Maytag and Whirlpool electric ranges, 1 80s GE washer and dryer, and each class had a Kitchen Aid KDI-17A that our class got to use at the end of the day. I got to load it many times over those 4 years. Mostly it was all dish loads as we serviced a small restaurant for the teachers. Fond memories of those days.

 

[solsburian]

@nrones

The Baby Belling is a small tabletop cooker with 2 hob elements and a small oven. Most of the examples I can remember were mounted on a moveable stand so they could be moved to each classroom as required.

http://www.belling.co.uk/baby-belling/baby-belling-321r/

 

[appnut]

HIgh school Sept. 1970 to May 1973

My high school was brand new when I started (our class was the first class to go trough all 3 years).  I never had much occassion to go down the hall that had the Home Ec room(s), but I remember they had what looked like GE appliances in the(m). 

 

[autowasherfreak]

My high school was brand new in 78 or 79 I think, and I started in 80, we had either Kenmore or GE electric ranges and a Maytag washer and dryer.  I can't remember what the sewing machines were, I'm guessing Singer.

 

 

[spiceman1957]

It's interesting to see

that a big majority of the appliances used in these readers' Home Ed. were GE as were in my high school in the 1970s. I had homeroom in the Home Ed. department and can remember a built-in GE and a white portable Modern Maid.
John

 

[MaytagA710]

My Junior High had a combination of Westinghouse Self Cleaning Ranges and newer Kenmore ranges. I guess they replaced the older Westinghouse's with newer, cheaper machines. I remember the teacher taught off of a GE Pushbutton cooktop, I remember being fascinated by the fact it was push button. They had a portable GE Potscrbubber II dishwasher, I think it was an Encore. BOL. GE Dryer, and a Westinghouse toploader. Pre-WCI, of course.

As for my High School, all original. Nothing had been replaced. All Westinghouse ranges, and a complete Westinghouse washer/dryer set in white. Same model washer as my Junior High. Plus a portable Westinghouse front load dishwasher too. Again, the teacher taught off of a pushbutton GE cooktop. Again, I was fascinated.

Rumor has it, the Westinghouse laundry pair is still there. I have half a mind to call the school board and tell them I am interested in the set and that I would pay them to have it!

 

[gmmcnair]

Our Home EC Lab in the Early/Mid 80s...

...our home ec lab was outfitted with several new GE self-cleaning electric ranges, one common Litton (???) microwave oven (micros were spendy back then), a common Amana fridge, and a GE filter flo washer and matching dryer. IIRC, it all worked beautifully and everything was built like a tank.