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[mixfinder]

Lucky Find

An older woman was downsizing and she just " knew" the buyers would not keep her range and she wanted to be sure it was adopted.  It came with an extra large and small burner because she was afraid a day would come when she couldn't get parts.  She was asking $100.00 which the stove is well worth.  I traded the Flair to the carpenter working on the house for labor hours.  The top had some rust damage and it wasn't pristine.  Easter made me realize I needed a bigger workhorse and two wide ovens would work better.  The clock was working when I removed it from her house but it hasn't started up here.  After a loving bath and a warm house I thought it might be coaxed to take off.  If not I'll be sending a timer motor off to the midwest.  The quest for a GM refrigerator is still on.  I called the ad for the $40.00 brown bottom freezer until it Roselle but no response yet.

 

[launderess]

Just Luvvvvvvvve That Whirlpool Convection Microwave

So minty and so new! You lucky dwag!

All the ones I've been able to find are used and the SS insides are coated with so much splattered and baked on grease they are beyond BKF.

 

[tlee618]

Oh Greg, you are so right, can't you just imagine a nice big tri-tip roast going round and round on that rotisserie???

 

[kevin313]

Simply awesome!! That Frigidaire is a masterpiece! It has it all - congratulations on such a beautiful stove. I hope it brings you years of enjoyment!

 

[mixfinder]

Years of Enjoyment

A bitterwsweet adoption for any appliance that comes into my kitchen.  It will be treated like royalty and work its wires to the bone.  I love to cook and find any excuse to entertain or donate foods to charity and auction.  Its a shame there isn't a scales to record the tonnage of raw ingredients that cross the threshold.

 

[kevin313]

So wonderful to see these appliances IN USE! That's what they were made for - it's always great to see them up on a shelf, but I think we can really appreciate the craftsmanship, engineering and wonder of these old machines when they are fulfilling their function - Bravo!

PS - that chrome Mixmaster is spectacular.

 

[rickr]

Frigidaire double oven range

Congratulations on your new find Kelly! I am sure you will love this one.

We have the same range in our rental house. Like the vintage Maytags at the house, the tenant loves this vintage range too!

I always wondered what year it was... Now I know. 1969. I thought it was from the early 1970's.

 

[mixfinder]

Two of a Kind

Rick your rental is amazing and spotless like everything you touch.  I love the heft of these old ranges coupled with enough new technology to make the cooking and clean up easier.  The only thing better than a stove that lights up is one with the controls behind glass.  It makes cleaning the bacon grease and cooking splatters a breeze.

 

Kevin, we need to plan a cooking week for interested culinarians of the Forum, sharing the combined knowledge and heritage of food we enjoy.  Your video work with the Italian food was splendid and we could video our work and offer them up as CD to offset transportation and food costs.  The chrome 10 is among the rarest of mixers made before the model change to 11 which was still in final development.  Hamilton Beach did a cosmetic redesign with the model H and it was hitting the market with spectacular success.  Sunbeam chromed a few model 10 in the final run of the model to go toe to toe with Hamilton Beach.  Like the auctions we fuss about here, someone on WACEM lead the owner to believe she was sitting on a gold mine with her grandmother's mixer and so she put up for sale on ebay classifieds for $1,600.  The sparks flew on Wacem as the seller might be a sham and she re-entered to politely tell them off and it was soon forgotten.  Several months went by and I ran across the listing.  Turned out she lives in Washington State.  I mentioned working out a horse trade plus some cash in getting her the mixer she wanted (Bosch) and I'd get the Sunbeam.  Sure enough, she owned horses and thought I was serious with the offer and she wasn't interested.  After a few more emails we settled on a price and I met her Spokane to pick it up.  The remarkable piece is that the mixer is cosmetically flawless, not a scratch, the decal is perfect and the lettering bright and white.  Inside was evidence it had seen lots of cookies.  The rear bushing is the Achilles tendon of Sunbeam mixers and it was fine so someone had been oiling it.  I put in a new switch and the 10's have always been the quietest mixer Sunbeam made and this one is no exception.

 

Laundress, if one were so inclined, one might accept an invitation to come and experience this master piece first hand.  One would, love to have you as a guest but fearing my Western informality might stretch your sensibilties one would acquiese to being a constrained host.  Polish your spurs and come on out.  Then we'll really test our laundry prowess with some nice road apple stains.

 

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Three in One

I prefer the lack of excessive radiant browning in a Frigidaire range.  Cakes come out perfectly level without any darkened crust, perfect for a cake decorator.  Three 9 inch layers of the famed 1 2 3 4 cake in 22 minutes at 350 degrees.

 

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Foolish People

On the WACEM Forum I was eaten alive for saying dough hooks worked perfectly in the earlier Sunbeams and told I was dead wrong.  I found a cheap model 9 Sunbeam on shopgoodwill for 4.99 and bought it to prove my point.

 

[mixfinder]

Cheesy Victory

The dough ended up in cheese pinwheels which gave a chance to try out the small oven.