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rinso

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Looking at the rotisserie thread, brought back memories of my Sunbeam dominated childhood. When I was growing up, our houshold had the following Sunbeam equipment:
Baby Bottle Warmer
Egg Cooker
Percolator (Yuck! :P)
Vaporizer
Toaster
Cap style Hair Dryer
Electric Dutch Oven (was sort of wok shaped)
Electric Fry Pan
Two Electric Blankets
Rotisserie
Flat Iron
and believe it or not, a Lawn Mower
My parents owned a mom and pop supermarket and were able to get these items at cost from their warehouse. Since they had 5 kids, I always wondered if Sunbeam made "marital aids."
 
Love the Sunbeam electric twin-blade 18" lawnmowers! I see them on eBay all the time; sometimes under the Black & Decker name as well. Wasn't there also a single-blade version?

One of these days I'll have to grab one just for fun!
 
Percolators...gag.....Mom's friend had a Sunbeam Vacuum Coffee maker that made much better coffee..."That's funny, Ray never has a second cup of coffee at home." Our Sunbeam lawn mower was a reel type mower. Left a very well-groomed lawn, and had a handle that would disengage the drive to the wheels when pushed all the way up or all the way down. Very handy when mowing around trees or other objects. I also forgot our Sunbeam Electric Toothbrush. Now if I could just remember who made that wee-alert buzzer thing that always woke me up much too late. I don't think it was a Sunbeam.
 
Rinso:

I am reasonably sure that Sunbeam did not offer muzzles and and restraints for children. LOL.

any-hoo:

Have an aunt who has a Sunbeam brand electic lawn-mower of the single blade variety. Here is where it gets weird. There was a revolving cord-reel on top that was somehow counter-balanced and would seek to gather-up the line-cord ("flex" => UK). Of course, this meant there was a certain technique that needed to be followed in actual mowing. Auntie would tie the cord to the machine and just by-pass this annoying "feature".
 
Sunbeam

Only Sunbeam I have is a Mixer from the 70s. It's actually the one like the Brady Bunch, so I'm happy.

The ONLY way to make coffee is a vacuum pot or a french press. For some reason, water coming right out of a kettle at just below boiling makes perfect coffee. Drip machines are close enough because the water is at the right temp. Percolators BOIL the coffee, over and over again giving it that rightly burnt taste.

and of course, the only coffee for me is Community New Orleans Blend. Coffee & Chicory. Hmmm and a Starbucks Frappucino.
 
You are right Scott, the one Sunbeam appliance we didn't have was the Mixmaster. Ours was a Dormeyer, which is now an extinct company, I believe. The Sunbeam hairdryer we had was excellent for defrosting our old Westinghouse refrigerator because you could take the cap off the hose and spray hot air into the freezer.
 
Percolators

Anyone that thinks a good percolator can't make good coffee doesn't know how to clean it. Put just a tiny bit of soap in the doby scrub pad, and almost rinse it out. Rinse the heck of the pot afterwards. Twice a year, clean it with "Dip It".

I always get compliments on my coffee, I use a 1950s percolator, and Chock-Full-Of-Nuts Columbian.

The coffee stays hot and tasty for hours without getting nasty. No other type of coffee maker can do that.

Ken
 
Hi Ken, I have never heard of "Chock-Full-of-Nuts Columbian. I wonder if it is something just in your area. Would love to give it a try. Terry
 
Quote: Anyone that thinks a good percolator can't make good coffee ....

It has been said that coffee even touching metal changes it chemically and alters its taste.

Ida know..I have an "average" palate / sense of taste....I can't tell.

Others heave a "super-charged" palate and can give you every ingredient in a dish and go on incessantly about how life is all about the flavor of food. [They tend to be heavy].

Those who are "hyper-tasters" and have such a huge number of active taste-buds that ordinary tastes (to you and I) such a a tomato or an onion are hugely acidic or overpowering and and this condition makes eating anything but the blandest foods literally "painful". [They tend to be thin].

[Another intersting tid-bit is that people perceive pain and feelings such as contact with their skin differently, which is why some need a feather to touch them and others could be nailed to the side of the buildng before perceiving the sensation.]

Personally, I dont like my food touching plastic (which eliminates modern drip-makers) or aluminum, so I have gone back to a vintage pyrex stoeve-top 9-cup coffee maker with SS guts and a glass top on the cap. [techincally plastic too but does not come into contact with the acidic coffee.]

14 minutes to get a boil and 5 to perc. Twice the time, but twice as nice!
 
Thanks so much Ken, I am going to have to start checking around at different stores and see if I can find this. Terry
 
percolators

I get excellent tasting coffee from my 1960 Kenmore (stainless steel body, aluminum basket and stem), and my 70's vintage Corning Electromatic (stainless stell basket and stem)
 

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