Modern Living: Part Fourteen

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electric chafing dish

#86 mentions "electric chafing dishes" in the ad. Did they mean electric mixers like the KitchenAid? Never heard that term before.
 
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Roger,

An electric chafing dish would have been similar to an electric frying pan.  A chafing dish is used for the last minute preparation and heating of dishes table side such as cherries jubilee, crepe suzette, bananas foster or steak diane.  I haven’t ever heard before of electric chafing dishes going back as far a  1919, but apparently they had them.

 

I would imagine that only the very well off people in 1919 would have owned such a luxury.  And if they could afford an electric chafing dish they probably weren’t worried about having to plug it into a light fixture socket, they would have probably had wired wall plugs.

 

Eddie
 
Connecting an electric chafing dish in 1919

There were all kinds of electrical gadgets by 1919 but I don’t think any houses had electrical outlets. They were very few and far between almost everything was connected to an overhead light fixture, because electric lights were the first thing that came into homes when electricity arrived.

Even the early electric wringer washers and even refrigerators were often plugged into a light fixture with a cord draped across and down to the Appliance.

John
 
I’m fairly certain that the homes of the well to do had wired electrical wall outlets in 1919 and the occupants didn’t fool around with plugging lamps and appliances into their overhead light sockets.

 

 Granted, the homes with these kind of outlets were probably few and far between.  But think about the homes of the wealthy that were built new at that time and wired for electricity as opposed to the homes that were pre existing and then wired for electricity.  

 

The latter had the wiring attached to the walls instead of in the walls, which meant that the overhead light fixtures would have been the only place to connect that electric toaster or percolator.  I’ve been in homes built during the very early 1900’s that had floor and wall outlets and they were original to the home.

 

Eddie
 

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