Appliance company Home Economists???

[norgeway]

RE Kerosine stove..

Believe it or not, a distant cousin of mine used a oil range up until about 10 years ago, they also had an outhouse! not that they could not afford to modernize, they just did not want to, this I will say, she could bake as pretty a pound cake in that thing as you have ever seen.Now a wood stove, if you learn how to fire it, bakes BETTER than anything,but you really have to know what you are doing or you will have a mess!

 

[retromania]

Hans,

That is correct. I made the mistake once of saying to my mother that the cakes that were baked in the wood stove at the house she grew up in must not have been all that great and she said I was wrong that some of the best cakes and breads she ever tasted came out of that old wood stove. She said as much that you did that one had to know how to bank the coals, etc, etc. I was telling her today about this website and about how I relayed the information that a home economist from Duke Power came out to the new house to show Grandmama how to use the new appliances. She said that is was true our grandmother had never cooked on an electric stove, but by the time they built the new house the old kitchen had three stoves in it: The wood stove that was still in use until they moved. The oil stove which grandmama no longer used and a fairly new gas stove that grandmama used some of the time. Seems there were certain things she liked to cook on one stove, but not the other. I left out the gas stove.

 

[retromania]

Bob

What is that behind you in your profile photo? Looks like a central vacuum unit.

 

[paulg]

Irma Harding and some other stuff

" Irma Harding" was the alleged " Home Economist " for International Harvester.
Now... I JUST WONDER about the following:

A) How long did it take International Harvester to find a home economist whose initials just happens to also be I and H?

B) How do you tell a prospect that they have no chance at getting the home economist job if their name doesn't start with I and H?

Of course I am just being silly. I am sure Irma Harding was as real as Betty Crocker.

I'm surprised HAMILTON didn't have a home economist named " IMA DREYER "

Regarding Hotpoint's Virginia Francis. I don't know if she really existed or not. Dad isn't around to tell the tale.
I was in the test kitchen at 5600 Taylor Street and I DO KNOW that the home economists would bake things sending really great smells throughout the area. WHO did the work I do not know.
I was very young at the time. I recall that it was very little, almost like a galley kitchen. Something the size of a motorhome sitting on the factory floor. Had to go up ramp or stairs to get to it. Inside it was a cool 1960's modern, which was about the time I was there.

And as for me, I have worked with a home economist for a major appliance company. It'll be interesting conversation when we all meet in person some day. Overall rewarding and a bit challenging at times.

 

[hydralique]

Ima Dreyer . . .

I am laughing my tail off at that one!