Does anyone recall if either of the consumer testing organizations tested the Preway Gas dishsmasher? I know that it used a spark plug to ignite the gas. Heating the wash water to 160F before the washing begins sounds not so good for proteins and starches. Seems like a prewash or a wash that is heated to 160F would be better, but I guess the combustion tube had to be covered with water during the heating, maybe. Maybe it could have washed for a few minutes and stopped to heat the water to 160F.
POD 12-17-2024 Preway Dishwashers
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Wasn't this dishwasher placed on the Beverly Hillbillies set kitchen?
Early 60s Preway gas dishwashers
I never saw any testing magazine test this dishwasher. I don't know how many years it was available picture of the day said it was a 1963 model. It probably wasn't available too many years thereafter based on the few that I've ever seen.
We still have one with a bunch of spare parts from others that I stripped the one we have needs a good bit of restoration. I do plan on getting it working and installing it in the wall of dishwashers at the museum it should be a fun machine.
My brother Jeff and I used to use a pre-weight gas dishwasher to clean parts in never washed dirty dishes in one. It will be interesting to see how it does.
John L
I never saw any testing magazine test this dishwasher. I don't know how many years it was available picture of the day said it was a 1963 model. It probably wasn't available too many years thereafter based on the few that I've ever seen.
We still have one with a bunch of spare parts from others that I stripped the one we have needs a good bit of restoration. I do plan on getting it working and installing it in the wall of dishwashers at the museum it should be a fun machine.
My brother Jeff and I used to use a pre-weight gas dishwasher to clean parts in never washed dirty dishes in one. It will be interesting to see how it does.
John L
Bob, I think you're right. If I remember, the American Gas Association was a sponsor of the show.
Yes I frequently saw that sponsor too---at least in a lot of the early black and white episodes that showed the kitchen...
So no doubt the dishwasher would have been a Pre-Way gas, which I'd like to think Granny would'a used that new-fangled scrubbin' box for doing the dishes...
-- Dave
So no doubt the dishwasher would have been a Pre-Way gas, which I'd like to think Granny would'a used that new-fangled scrubbin' box for doing the dishes...
-- Dave
Beverly hillbillies appliances
Yes, they had a pair of Preway gas wall ovens, and two Preway gas cooktops, they also had two RCA whirlpool, frost, free, gas refrigerators, no doubt with ice makers as well as the Maytag washer and gas dryer that you could see in many of the shows.
At the end of the show in the credits you could see that the American gas association was a sponsor
John L
Yes, they had a pair of Preway gas wall ovens, and two Preway gas cooktops, they also had two RCA whirlpool, frost, free, gas refrigerators, no doubt with ice makers as well as the Maytag washer and gas dryer that you could see in many of the shows.
At the end of the show in the credits you could see that the American gas association was a sponsor
John L
This was the era of the AGA trying to fill the kitchen/house with gas-fueled appliances and muscle out those knaves from the Edison Electric Institute and their Gold Medallion program.
Yesterday I ended up going down a bunny trail of the Caloric Disposer.....incinerator from the early 60s.
Yesterday I ended up going down a bunny trail of the Caloric Disposer.....incinerator from the early 60s.
Gas Incinerators
When I was a child, friends of ours who were a retired couple had a gas incinerator in their basement. It vented into the chimney of their old house that originally had a coal furnace. Caloric made an incinerator and I remember a brand by the name of Calcinator. When we visited, I loved to follow Grandpa Petersen with the bag of garbage down the stairs and watch him lift the lid and put it in the incinerator and fire it up. Later, domestic incinerators were deemed to be sources of air pollution. The hospital where I worked had an incinerator for medical waste, but most of what was collected as trash went into a dumpster and we were cautioned to be careful emptying the heavy cloth bags because they could have needles sticking out of them. I think the dumpster stuff went to the county incinerator.
When I was a child, friends of ours who were a retired couple had a gas incinerator in their basement. It vented into the chimney of their old house that originally had a coal furnace. Caloric made an incinerator and I remember a brand by the name of Calcinator. When we visited, I loved to follow Grandpa Petersen with the bag of garbage down the stairs and watch him lift the lid and put it in the incinerator and fire it up. Later, domestic incinerators were deemed to be sources of air pollution. The hospital where I worked had an incinerator for medical waste, but most of what was collected as trash went into a dumpster and we were cautioned to be careful emptying the heavy cloth bags because they could have needles sticking out of them. I think the dumpster stuff went to the county incinerator.
