Drug in another stove today......

[retromania]

That is

So cool! Hans: Did your parents buy their stove thru Duke Power? We had Hotpoint in our house until one by one the appliances were replaced with Frigidaire. The Hotpoints were are bought thru Duke Power Company.

 

[norgeway]

No But..

My Dads Mom did, she had a 63 Hotpoint 40 inch, My Moms parents bought everything for there 1953-54 house remodel from Lowes Hardware in Wilkesboro, before it was a huge chain, Wilkesboro is about 30 miles away and Grandaddy had a 1 ton 49 Dodge truck, so they hauled it on that, The reason we ended up living there is, in 1956 My parents moved in with my Grandparents to save money while they built there new house, meanwhile Grandaddy got sick in the spring of 57 and died in November from cancer at age 57,so Grandmother would not be alone they stayed and never built there house, I still have the plans, the Hotpoint turned out to be a good stove, but not for my cleanliness obsessed Grandmother who kept the buttons messed up by washing them, thereby causing them to stick, My Mom got rid of her appliances which were 1950 Frigidaires, mainly because Grandmothers fridge was bigger, it was a 50 Westinghouse,and her stove was 4 years newer.

 

[retromania]

BF Goodrich

I was at friend Peggie's mother's house in Laurens, SC and she has a BF Goodrich freezer on her back porch. It's old, but still kicking. Peggie says the only draw back is that it has to be manually defrosted. It's a stand up freezer.

 

[westingman123]

manual defrost

Tell her that manual defrost "ain't" a draw back! Well, it can be a bit of a pain, but to me it's worth the effort. Try baking a cake and freezing it in one of those new-fangled frostless freezers with the fan. It's been my experience those freezers dry everything out way too fast.

Grandma used to bake cakes for the county fair way in advance (well, weeks) and they were prize winners every time. Then, she got a new deep freezer... Well, it didn't take her long to find an older one!

 

[retromania]

Well

Miss Adeline is elderly and lets the freezer go so long between defrostings that it is a solid chunk of ice by the time Peggie or her sister tackle it. Says everything pretty much has to be thrown out. We had an old Hotpoint on our back porch when I was growing up. It too was a manual defrost. My mother was OCD about things in the freezer. Freezer paper. Freezer tape. Black marking pencil. Routinely rotated things to the front by date so it would be used. Anderson County where I grew up and live now was mostly rural and in the summer there were vegetable stands everywhere. My mother would buy veggies and we would spend time shelling, blanching and freezing. She never canned. Was afraid of pressure cookers. And I love them. I have canned in mine. Also I cook a mean pot roast in mine.

 

[retromania]

We

Put rice in our salt shakers. Crackers and such were stored in metal canisters that had a glass knob on top with moisture absorbing crystals in it. When the blue crystals turned pink you put it in a hot oven to dry it out. Mom usually never waited unti it was totally pink. That became one of my domestic duties. I would say 'Can I put the knob in the oven and dry it out? Speaking of growing up in the sultry South, we had floor fans. I wish I still had them. They were beautiful and really a work of art design-wise. One in particular had wooden housing with sides that looked like shutters. I was a pine color and heeeeavy. It was really old and by the time I came along is was in a closet in the basement. It didn't work. I used to go down there. Pull it out. Plug it in and flip flip flip the switch and nothing! The basement closet was one of two in the laundry room. I divided my time between pulling that old fan out and holding down the button on the washer to watch the agitator go up and down. Yes. I did have some childhood friends by the way! LOLLL.

 

[norgeway]

this stove...

Will probable end up in storage, I really wanted it because it was like the one we had, it is solid, but not nice enough for the kitchen, so for now the Frigidaire stays .

 

[danemodsandy]

Hans:

I know your Frigidaire has lots of special memories, and I can certainly understand why you're keeping it where it is.

But I would also bet a solid gold locomotive that if anyone could make that Hotpoint nice enough for any kitchen, that someone would be you!

 

[retromania]

I'm sorry

You don't think it will be nice enough to go to the kitchen, but you'll have fun cleaning it up and playing with it. That's the way I am with stuff I get at Good Will and sales. I have fun cleaning them up and trying them out.