launderess
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What are good brands and or designs do you lot recommend?
TIA
Madame La Launderess
TIA
Madame La Launderess
Jonesing For Vintage Convection/Microwave Oven
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launderess
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Thanks Westie
Have run across a few older Panasonics, but all looked as if they were run hard and put u wet. Why persons don't clean out the inside of the oven after using it with convection is beyond me. Then to make matters worse they fire the thing up again literally baking all that grease and food bits onto the stainless steel.
Have run across a few older Panasonics, but all looked as if they were run hard and put u wet. Why persons don't clean out the inside of the oven after using it with convection is beyond me. Then to make matters worse they fire the thing up again literally baking all that grease and food bits onto the stainless steel.
Amana
How could a microwave built by a religious sect not be ordained? We had one for awhile and I really liked it but it was old when we got it and over time the clock began to run backward. You had to stand next to it until what ever you were cooking was done and stop the oven.
How could a microwave built by a religious sect not be ordained? We had one for awhile and I really liked it but it was old when we got it and over time the clock began to run backward. You had to stand next to it until what ever you were cooking was done and stop the oven.
panthera
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I don't recall
any decent reasonably priced convection-microwaves from the vintage era except for the Sanyo brand. Everything else which wasn't commercial or nearly so seemed to either be good at microwaving or conventional cooking but not both.
There was a very expensive Sears combi which my parents used until 2005, it actually did zap and grill and bake with convection evenly. But it was for a 20amp outlet, not 15amp and the electronic controls were so complex, even after 20 years we still had to use a cheat sheet.
Cleaning was easy as everything inside was smooth stainless steel and the convection fan cleverly laid out to be easily reached for cleaning but out of the way of the worst grease.
Our neighbors had a Monkey Wards which managed to arc at the slightest provocation but baked pies perfectly in convection mode.
any decent reasonably priced convection-microwaves from the vintage era except for the Sanyo brand. Everything else which wasn't commercial or nearly so seemed to either be good at microwaving or conventional cooking but not both.
There was a very expensive Sears combi which my parents used until 2005, it actually did zap and grill and bake with convection evenly. But it was for a 20amp outlet, not 15amp and the electronic controls were so complex, even after 20 years we still had to use a cheat sheet.
Cleaning was easy as everything inside was smooth stainless steel and the convection fan cleverly laid out to be easily reached for cleaning but out of the way of the worst grease.
Our neighbors had a Monkey Wards which managed to arc at the slightest provocation but baked pies perfectly in convection mode.
launderess
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Panthera Is That You?
Good to see you posting again. Now if ToggleSwitch would turn up we could crack open that bottle of Bolly I've got in the fridge! *LOL*
Funny you should mention Kenmore combi micro/convection ovens, as there are a few locally I have my eye on.
Apparently they came in two flavours, one had the two heating elements (one above and another below), as well as the stirrer located above with the fan. Another model moved the fan and heating element to the back of the oven (true convection?), and ditched the second heating below the floor of the oven. Both used probes to measure temperature, and allowed for "recipe" cooking by pre-programmed and user added.
Good to see you posting again. Now if ToggleSwitch would turn up we could crack open that bottle of Bolly I've got in the fridge! *LOL*
Funny you should mention Kenmore combi micro/convection ovens, as there are a few locally I have my eye on.
Apparently they came in two flavours, one had the two heating elements (one above and another below), as well as the stirrer located above with the fan. Another model moved the fan and heating element to the back of the oven (true convection?), and ditched the second heating below the floor of the oven. Both used probes to measure temperature, and allowed for "recipe" cooking by pre-programmed and user added.
panthera
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Ours
had the fan up above, it had it's own covered heating element, so was true convection as well.
I have read (but never seen) that the ones with the fan in the back were from a different firm.
This oven was fully programmable, you could order several steps, using various heat forms (or together) in a row, with pauses inbetween. Worked a charm, but, gosh oh golly gee - very hard to keep the probe from breaking the cable at the plug. We went through 20 or more - one a year - and I am still on the original for the Amana RadarRange folks here helped me fix up a while make.
The important thing is that the stainless steel shelf be there as well as the 50 pound white ceramic (it might have been glass-ceramic) glass plate for the bottom.
You'll need an instruction manual, believe me.
Oh, and, yup, it's me. I'm teaching six additional classes this semester to pay my colleagues back for their help these last years. Not much time or muse - but I do miss this forum and you folks. There are several summer projects lined up for us including two MixMasters from the mixed-up pre-war era and and a 3C with stainless steel bowl and a capacitor shorted to ground. That'll all be in June or so!
had the fan up above, it had it's own covered heating element, so was true convection as well.
I have read (but never seen) that the ones with the fan in the back were from a different firm.
This oven was fully programmable, you could order several steps, using various heat forms (or together) in a row, with pauses inbetween. Worked a charm, but, gosh oh golly gee - very hard to keep the probe from breaking the cable at the plug. We went through 20 or more - one a year - and I am still on the original for the Amana RadarRange folks here helped me fix up a while make.
The important thing is that the stainless steel shelf be there as well as the 50 pound white ceramic (it might have been glass-ceramic) glass plate for the bottom.
You'll need an instruction manual, believe me.
Oh, and, yup, it's me. I'm teaching six additional classes this semester to pay my colleagues back for their help these last years. Not much time or muse - but I do miss this forum and you folks. There are several summer projects lined up for us including two MixMasters from the mixed-up pre-war era and and a 3C with stainless steel bowl and a capacitor shorted to ground. That'll all be in June or so!
I do have a "vintage" Kenmore micro/convection oven from late 70's/early 80's. Wasn't used much, does work, no turntable, has a meat probe. I'll get some pics if anyone is interested. Hate to discard it.
whirlcool
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We always like Litton microwave ovens. We still have one that is 34 years old and never has had a failure!
launderess
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Pictures?
Show Big Mommy what cha got! *LOL*
Show Big Mommy what cha got! *LOL*
launderess
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Panthera
What were you all doing to break all those probes? *LOL*
I mean one simply pushes the thing into whatever, and plugs the other end into a socket. Since these ovens lack a turntable nothing moves about, well microwave and thermal radiation but that is about it.
L.
What were you all doing to break all those probes? *LOL*
I mean one simply pushes the thing into whatever, and plugs the other end into a socket. Since these ovens lack a turntable nothing moves about, well microwave and thermal radiation but that is about it.
L.
launderess
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Coldspot
Does your unit look like the one pictured above?
L
Does your unit look like the one pictured above?
L
yes...very similar!
panthera
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Good Question
I don't know why they always broke - I think there was a design flaw.
Never had that problem before or since.
Not that I place all that much value on the things, but my mother used them when she set up various programs on the unit.
Which was it's tremendous good point that made all the rest worth it: You could literally program it to take a frozen roast, thaw it, let it rest until it was truly evenly thawed (using a very well designed microwave defrost cycle) then sear it at very high heat (within the limitations of an oven, of course, then roast it to perfection.
I don't know why they always broke - I think there was a design flaw.
Never had that problem before or since.
Not that I place all that much value on the things, but my mother used them when she set up various programs on the unit.
Which was it's tremendous good point that made all the rest worth it: You could literally program it to take a frozen roast, thaw it, let it rest until it was truly evenly thawed (using a very well designed microwave defrost cycle) then sear it at very high heat (within the limitations of an oven, of course, then roast it to perfection.
launderess
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