Odd Sunbeam frypan find..

[norgeway]

It might or might not be rare, and I havent cleaned it yet, but Don called me and asked me if I wanted a small Sunbeam frypan , he had gone by a thrift store in Statesville when he got off work,,,,I said sure, it was 3.50!, when he got home with it my eyes about popped out...I had never seen one this small.

 

[norgeway]

Here it is

Next to my daily driver, which I thought was the small model!!

 

[norgeway]

It is

Dirty, but in great shape.

 

[launderess]

Have Seen Those on FleaPay

IIRC those were the first early models of Sunbeam electric frypans.

All cast alumimum and IIRC did the job.

 

[norgeway]

I have..

Three sizes bigger than this one, I never even knew there was one this small, They really are good, even heating pans, the largest sized one, has a roaster cord!

 

[rp2813]

I've seen small ones like that at thrift stores, but can't remember if they were Sunbeams.  I do remember that one was a Hoover.

 

Just last week I saw something that had to have taken some work:  A Faberware electric buffet pan that had been stripped of all electrical components, even the clad heating element on the bottom of the pan, which I always thought was inseparable.  You could see the outline of where it was.  Why anyone would go to all of that trouble, I don't know. 

 

[gansky1]

Good find!!

My grandmother had the petite Sunbeam frypan, used it constantly. It was handy for she and my grandfather, just the right size for many small meals. I recall her using it for re-heating dinner rolls, frying a few slices of bacon, etc. especially in the summer when the gassy Tappan would have been a waste.

 

[launderess]

There you go

Nice and compact

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sun...847?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25794a5e1f

 

[launderess]

But Wait There's More

For that "mod" seventies look:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sun...all_Kitchen_Appliances_US&hash=item4d08330626

 

[polkanut]

It's definitely a cutie, and perfect for 1 or 2 people.  Some people have all the luck! humpf!!!  The only interesting item I saw yesterday when I stopped at one of the thrift/charity shops here in town was an ancient gray enameled SAVORY brand double-walled roaster.  I didn't buy it as I already have 4 of them in various sizes.  The price on the one I saw yesterday was $18.00 which I think is a bit high, $10 would more realistic.  It is in fair condition.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ralph:

I've seen that stripping of a Farberware buffet pan myself, and there was actually a reason for it.

The buffet pan is a 12-inch pan, but it is deeper than the regular 12-inch Farberware skillet.

If you strip off the leg mounts and the heating element, you have a deep saute pan capable of holding 5 or 6 quarts of food.

I could also see a thrifty soul with a Farberware skillet whose heating element had gone bad stripping it, so as to get more use out of it. Farberware electric skillets, except for the buffet pan, are the same basic body as the stove-top skillets - Farberware made its entire line out of as few basic parts as possible.

 

[danemodsandy]

Oh, and Hans....

....If you had enough mortar, I think you could build a house out of electric skillets!

* ducks and runs *

 

[maytagbear]

Ma and Dad

got the large Sunbeam for a wedding present, and it ran perfectly until it didn't, about 25 years later.

I have never come across one in my resale shopping. I hear tell that they are out there, but.....

I LOVE the petite one. That model would be a nice addition to my collection.

Don't understand it, I truly do hate electric cooktops, but I have something of a passion for electric skillets. Well, perhaps being in Rental Hell might have something to do with it, and using clapped out rental electrics.......

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[westie2]

I remember my great geandparents having that skillet.  Got it one Christmas in the 50's.  Grandma used it everyday and every meal was easy to use for her and did not heat house up like her gas stove did.  She also had two elecric sauce pans.  Those worked good too.  She is the one who showed me how to make biscuts (pinch) She made then for every meal.  She used 2 cups of selfrising flour a spoonfull of lard or crisco (abut 1/4 to 1/3 cup used two knives to blend it in then a cup of sweey milk stired to form then greases her hands and pinched off about golf ball size od dough a quick shap in her hands and ploped in well greaded and heated pan fliped pjoled the biscut in the grease and finished filling the pan then tooker her knuckles and pressed down each one to flatten some.  In the oven 425 about 15 minutes.  She had an old Dixie stove.

 

[tomturbomatic]

What is the width of this pan? I have only see the three larger ones.

 

[dynaflow]

Hans

I have one myself

 

[launderess]

Width

IIRC these small Sunbeam fry pans measured about 10" across.

Sunbeam must have sold/made these by the thousands given the numbers you see at thrifts, estate sales, flemarkets and fleaPay. If you are really lucky one will turn up NIB which would be my choice for aluminum pans like this.

 

[stan]

I have

The reg/large size, works beautifully, but have been Leary of cooking in aluminum, never heard the jury's verdict about this?

 

[norgeway]

It Is..

9 inches across....Looks tiny, for a frypan that is!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks

The other models were 10, 11 and 12 inches. I don't ever remember seeing ads for the smallest one.