Looks like one by the design...
The Aldwash, Aldry, Washette and Tumblette must be a real rare breed, if not extinct. This particular one in the photo is probably running because it's a Huebsch (it has a strong resemblance to one) and many parts are aplenty for those, even 50-60 years later. If it were an actual Cook Machinery product, I'm thinking parts are NLA for pretty much everything they have made and if one minor problem came up it meant a death sentence.
If you think vintage domestic appliances are rare (which a lot of it is) commercial equipment becomes super rare as time goes on because no one collects that kind of stuff.
Case in point: did you know Colt (the gun manufacturer) made dish machines in the forties until Vulcan-Hart bought out their dish machine division? I found that out from an old Hobart service guy I ran into a while back. I bet there's not one single Colt dish machine out there (not that there would be, I don't think that those prehistoric artifacts would meet NSF specification let alone health code, with the wood racks and primitive wash system). Nonetheless, that would be super cool to see, a real treat to see it in active duty.
The other day I was doing an evap changeout and a recharge for a walk-in at an older grade school. As I walked into the kitchen, I was awestruck of an old circa-1950s Hotpoint electric deck oven front and center in the kitchen. Worse for the wear with heavy grease buildup (and smelled like it too) but still on school lunch duty all these years later, cooking chicken nuggets and corn dogs. Everything else in the kitchen was 15-20 years old. Don't know how that escaped the scrap pile, as electric anything will cost a fortune to run versus NG. That will probably be the last time I'd see something like that. Wish I grabbed pictures of that oven but I don't feel right snapping pics on the job.
The Aldwash, Aldry, Washette and Tumblette must be a real rare breed, if not extinct. This particular one in the photo is probably running because it's a Huebsch (it has a strong resemblance to one) and many parts are aplenty for those, even 50-60 years later. If it were an actual Cook Machinery product, I'm thinking parts are NLA for pretty much everything they have made and if one minor problem came up it meant a death sentence.
If you think vintage domestic appliances are rare (which a lot of it is) commercial equipment becomes super rare as time goes on because no one collects that kind of stuff.
Case in point: did you know Colt (the gun manufacturer) made dish machines in the forties until Vulcan-Hart bought out their dish machine division? I found that out from an old Hobart service guy I ran into a while back. I bet there's not one single Colt dish machine out there (not that there would be, I don't think that those prehistoric artifacts would meet NSF specification let alone health code, with the wood racks and primitive wash system). Nonetheless, that would be super cool to see, a real treat to see it in active duty.
The other day I was doing an evap changeout and a recharge for a walk-in at an older grade school. As I walked into the kitchen, I was awestruck of an old circa-1950s Hotpoint electric deck oven front and center in the kitchen. Worse for the wear with heavy grease buildup (and smelled like it too) but still on school lunch duty all these years later, cooking chicken nuggets and corn dogs. Everything else in the kitchen was 15-20 years old. Don't know how that escaped the scrap pile, as electric anything will cost a fortune to run versus NG. That will probably be the last time I'd see something like that. Wish I grabbed pictures of that oven but I don't feel right snapping pics on the job.
