Deep Well recipes

[rp2813]

I dropped Greg a line and passed along greetings.  I'll advise if/when I hear from him, or Sandy if he still has your correct e-mail he might contact you directly.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ralph:

Check your private messages.

 

[classiccaprice]

I may eventually replace it. Right now I'm just happy to have a working deep well. I still have the original one that came with mine with the broken brick bottom and I now have an extra thermizer pan that would fit. I'll consider replacing it if one comes along. The problem is I don't know if mine is a speed heat burner or not. It was replaced somewhere in it's life. I'll take a picture when I get home.

 

[circlew]

Another reason deep-wells fell out of favor was that the required space resulted in a shorter oven on the side they were located on. Another was the increasing popularity of 30" ranges during the 50's. The only 30" range I can think of with a deep-well is Hotpoint, and the oven was not full width in these.

 

[classiccaprice]

Nevermind, Tom answered my question with his wire comment.  It's not a speed burner and when I have a chance I'll replace the burner (not the deepwell) when I have a chance.

 

[classiccaprice]

burners from before my ownership...

 

[kenmore71]

Speed Heat vs. Thermiser

Speed-heat was a totally different beast from the Thermizer.

Particularly to the Thermizer with the "Thriftomatic" control.  The highest wattage of the 8" Thermizer was 1600 watts.

 

[akronman]

Chambers Range

I have a 40's Chambers range with a gas Thermowell. For slow cooking recipes, inside that extremely  insulated well, I turn the pilot light up pretty high and use routine 4 to 8 hour crock pot recipes, they always turn out well. No real flame from the burner, just the pilot.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Maytag used the pilot light for slow cooking in an insulated well also. Before Chambers had the well, they had an insulated jacket that was lowered over the vessel. Some early deepwell cookers had kettle covers that were filled with insulation and those covers were not immersible.

 

[58limited]

Here is a link to the Chambers 1958 cookbook, the Thermowell recipes should work fine in your Thermizer. The T-well recipes start on page 41.

 

 

http://www.vintagechambers.com/pdfs/IdleHour1958.pdf

 

[classiccaprice]

Thanks David!

 

[norgeway]

I love my...

Deep Well, my Norge has the raiseable unit, I dont have the original pot, but I do have a Presto deep well pressure cooker I use all the time.

 

[tomturbomatic]

"Another reason deep-wells fell out of favor was that the required space resulted in a shorter oven on the side they were located on."

Personally, I much prefer the shorter, but wider companion oven rather than the tall, narrower oven that came on the ranges with the 21 or 23 inch wide master ovens. With two equal width ovens, you can easily fit a cookie sheeet, full size broiler pan or a Bundt pan in the companion oven. We did briefly have an early 50s Frigidaire 40" range with two full height ovens in the collection, but it only had one 8 inch and 3 6 inch surface units on the divided cooktop. Seems like if you cooked enough to need 2 full size ovens you could use another 8 inch surface unit.