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perc-o-prince
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That IS cool looking. Looks like it could fly to the table when the food is done 
It was also sold as the
Cory Party Chef.
It is cool, but right now, I have all the electric skillets I can use.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Cory Party Chef.
It is cool, but right now, I have all the electric skillets I can use.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
It's cool, but also extremely hot
I've had a couple of these through the years, and I love the look, but they get so hot that they are not very practical. While I understand it's the natural function of an electric skillet to get hot, I found them to be too burn-prone for my liking.
I've had a couple of these through the years, and I love the look, but they get so hot that they are not very practical. While I understand it's the natural function of an electric skillet to get hot, I found them to be too burn-prone for my liking.
michaelman2
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This does have a cool look to it PeteK..I wonder if Robot, Dr.Smith and Will Robinson are aboard?..ha
frontaloadotmy
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I had one of those too
I wasn't aware that they came with a "buffet" interchangeble
handle. I did love its fanciness, but it was real pain to
clean.
I wasn't aware that they came with a "buffet" interchangeble
handle. I did love its fanciness, but it was real pain to
clean.
kenmore1978
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My Grandmother
had one of these. The "signal light" was actullay a window to view the coils inside.
had one of these. The "signal light" was actullay a window to view the coils inside.
That Cory Buffet thing was nasty. It could not be immersed and was huge to handle and store.
The Westinghouse electric skillet below it is the changeover model. Westinghouse actually pioneered the redesigning of the handles of electric skillets from one long handle with or without a "helper handle" to the matching side handles that they called buffet style or something. Before the advent of the detachable heat control, the WH temperature knob was at the end of the handle by the terminals for the plug on the cord, but they introduced the long open handle style with that one too. Does it seem to any of you that the sales and marketing of electric skillets has declined? Maybe it's because of newer styles of cooking where you don't cook like that, if at all. In the early 70s when I worked in housewares, GE had a line with models in aluminum or harvest or avocado. I think it was Sunbeam that had the stoneware insert to make the skillet a slow cooker..yeah, right. Hoover, Toastmaster and Farberware offered stainless steel cooking surfaces bonded to aluminum for even heating of the pan. Most of the big names in small electrics for the kitchen in the 50s have merged, sold off or been killed like that SOB did to Sunbeam. Microwave ovens probably had a lot to do with it. It's probably also true that the post war period saw lots of new appliances and they were heavily advertised and probably reached a saturation level where they did not need to be advertised much at all to be thought of when buying nice gifts. Now, the only ads for electric skillets are in a Target or Macy's sale insert or circular. It sure is not hard to remember the name of the big department store anymore is it? It's Macy's everywhere, but when you had different stores, they carried different brands. Now it's pretty much the same dismal offerings everywhere and mostly made in a third world country for ubiquitous appliance badges without any domestic heritage like Cuisinart, Krupps, T-FAL, or once domestic brands like Sunbeam (Best Electric Appliances Made)as the cast-in letters read on the bottom of the electric skillet, or KitchenAid which seems to have its name on everything from spatulas and spoons on up through every major appliance, or Farberware. Farberware is not quite so pervasive a line, but they keep putting their name on stuff that suddenly shows up on store shelves and then, just as quickly disappears and most of it is cheap crap. Sic transit gloria mundi and that has nothing to do with little Gloria throwing up on a bus, although it is a sickening downward spiral.
The Westinghouse electric skillet below it is the changeover model. Westinghouse actually pioneered the redesigning of the handles of electric skillets from one long handle with or without a "helper handle" to the matching side handles that they called buffet style or something. Before the advent of the detachable heat control, the WH temperature knob was at the end of the handle by the terminals for the plug on the cord, but they introduced the long open handle style with that one too. Does it seem to any of you that the sales and marketing of electric skillets has declined? Maybe it's because of newer styles of cooking where you don't cook like that, if at all. In the early 70s when I worked in housewares, GE had a line with models in aluminum or harvest or avocado. I think it was Sunbeam that had the stoneware insert to make the skillet a slow cooker..yeah, right. Hoover, Toastmaster and Farberware offered stainless steel cooking surfaces bonded to aluminum for even heating of the pan. Most of the big names in small electrics for the kitchen in the 50s have merged, sold off or been killed like that SOB did to Sunbeam. Microwave ovens probably had a lot to do with it. It's probably also true that the post war period saw lots of new appliances and they were heavily advertised and probably reached a saturation level where they did not need to be advertised much at all to be thought of when buying nice gifts. Now, the only ads for electric skillets are in a Target or Macy's sale insert or circular. It sure is not hard to remember the name of the big department store anymore is it? It's Macy's everywhere, but when you had different stores, they carried different brands. Now it's pretty much the same dismal offerings everywhere and mostly made in a third world country for ubiquitous appliance badges without any domestic heritage like Cuisinart, Krupps, T-FAL, or once domestic brands like Sunbeam (Best Electric Appliances Made)as the cast-in letters read on the bottom of the electric skillet, or KitchenAid which seems to have its name on everything from spatulas and spoons on up through every major appliance, or Farberware. Farberware is not quite so pervasive a line, but they keep putting their name on stuff that suddenly shows up on store shelves and then, just as quickly disappears and most of it is cheap crap. Sic transit gloria mundi and that has nothing to do with little Gloria throwing up on a bus, although it is a sickening downward spiral.
I never really thought about it but now that you mention it they have sort of disappeared from the shelves. My mother always used her GE and I learned at a young age to make pancakes in it. I was gifted a buffet style one back in the 70's and we did use it at the time quite often but I'll bet it hasn't been used now in 20 years. Speaking of Farberware, I saw they again have another line of electric products out called Vitantorio or something like that which look to be interesting but like you say, they'll probably be gone after Christmas.
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