My small but growing collection...

[polkanut]

Today while helping clean out my grandmother's house (69yrs. worth of stuff), my Dad gave me her Dormeyer electric percolator. She's had this pot as long as my Dad can remember, he's 62. Can anyone give me any history about the Dormeyer Co.. She also has a Dormeyer mixer that has been in the basement for at least 20 years. I'm slowly acquiring more percolators. Nothing beats the sound of one of these babies pounding out great coffee on a cold Wisconsin winter morning. My best find to date was a chrome w/ harvest gold trim GE Coffeematic, complete. Found it at Salvation Army for $2. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

P.S. I also have a Universal, Westinghouse, and a Royal-Matic, by Robeson-Rochester.

 

[petek]

Polka...have you got pics of those percs? In my other thread I just mentioned about a Dormeyer perc today at the flea market, I hope to grab it next week if the folks selling it are back. I don't know anything on the company really. I have one Universal I found earlier this year, then the Westy I found last week and another one I can't remember right now what it is or where it is.

 

[polkanut]

Sorry,

I don't have a scanner, I barely know how to get on-line without breaking out in a cold sweat

 

[Versatronic]

Dormeyer

I can't give you a full history of the Dormeyer Company, but I know they have been around since at least the 1920's. They made some beautiful stuff through the years. I have a beautiful 50's chrome dormeyer mixer and also a cool hand mixer.

 

[kenmore1978]

pictures

Use a regular film camera, and simply have the pics put on CD when developed. You can them use your cmputer to edit them, and upload or send them anywhere you want.

I'm holdingonto the past, just bought a new Olympus Stylus Wide Point and Shoot FILM camera, rather than a digital camera. To save on developing costs, I just get the pictures on CD and the negatives, and them get only the prints I need if I need prints later.

 

[Kevinpreston3]

Dormeyer Fun

What do you guys think of this. Mixer with meat grinder and, from what I am told, the original tools.

 

[petek]

I hadn't seen a Dormeyer mixer before. I've seen some of their appliances at flea markets etc.. but don't ever remember seeing them for sale in any store. Maybe they weren't sold in Canada and people bought them in the US or brought them when they moved here.

 

[toggleswitch]

Dormeyer who?

Funny, I too remember the brand-name, barely, but can't recall seeing their stuff.....

 

[retromom]

The many faces of Dormeyer.....

Great Dormeyer mixer Kevin! Have you tried grinding meat or making sausage in one? If you have, is it pretty easy to do? Did they also make a juicer attachment?

Heck, and I thought they only made fryers!

Venus

 

[Kevinpreston3]

Venus...

thanks. Actually, we have never used it. I think I fired it up once. I believe this one also allows the entire "tower" to snap into another position to allow stirring close to the edge of a bowl...at least I think it does, would have to look again. If I remember correctly we got this years ago very cheaply.

 

[scott55405]

Yep, that's how it works Kevin, you snap the whole arm over to set the bowl control. Dormeyer has been gone since about the late sixties, but they were a big name in the years prior to that. They made a full line of kitchen appliances and also made power tools!