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If they count too they are my favs.I just bought some vintage woodland brown ones.
they remind me of being at my aunt's house when I was little having poached eggs.
I like the thinness of them and the way they feel.
My dog is not too fond of them.
If you hit them with a knife and it makes that ringing sound, he thinks it is the door bell
If they count too they are my favs.I just bought some vintage woodland brown ones.
they remind me of being at my aunt's house when I was little having poached eggs.
I like the thinness of them and the way they feel.
My dog is not too fond of them.
If you hit them with a knife and it makes that ringing sound, he thinks it is the door bell
It's growing on me.
On the last day of a recent estate sale, the patroness of the sale dumped a huge load of new-in-the-box vintage Corningware on me. (All I wanted was one piece!!)
However, I got to using it (after all, it was new/unused) and actually have come to love it. Esthetically I'm not really fond of the blue flower motif. However TECHNICALLY, vintage Corningware is simply fantastic. Whether I use it on my Wolf smoothtop, the microwave or Electromatic base, the stuff just performs. It is truly amazing how the efficiency of the flat-bottom Corningware mates so beautifully with my smoothtop. My hat is off to the engineers of the time. MADE IN THE USA! I swear most of the good stuff nowadays is vintage.
On the last day of a recent estate sale, the patroness of the sale dumped a huge load of new-in-the-box vintage Corningware on me. (All I wanted was one piece!!)
However, I got to using it (after all, it was new/unused) and actually have come to love it. Esthetically I'm not really fond of the blue flower motif. However TECHNICALLY, vintage Corningware is simply fantastic. Whether I use it on my Wolf smoothtop, the microwave or Electromatic base, the stuff just performs. It is truly amazing how the efficiency of the flat-bottom Corningware mates so beautifully with my smoothtop. My hat is off to the engineers of the time. MADE IN THE USA! I swear most of the good stuff nowadays is vintage.
There are a few of us who have Centura fine dinnerware, at least one of us who has either a banquet service or enough to stock a store. Centura was discontinued because the glaze makes it non-microwave safe.
Corning Ware cook ware is a world in itself. There are all kinds of strange, limited production and experimental pieces for collectors. There is probably enough of the regular shapes and sizes to be recycled to new users for a couple of generations at least. As long as cooks have not put scratches in the glaze, it emerges from a trip through a self cleaning oven looking new. There are so many microwaving tasks for which the various Corning pieces are perfect. You can have real fun if you find some of the Cook Mates pieces with the ground flat bases. With those and a heater base or two from the Electromatic Skillets, or as Corning later named it, the Table Range, you can have thermostatically controlled cooking with very even heat across the base of the pans and even get by without a cooktop if necessary.
While this may be only one step up from a matching set of salad bowls from CoolWhip, I love the 1.5 quart or 1.75 in the P series saucepans for my individual tossed salad. I think the pans show beautiful design work.
If you like coffee or tea, there are too many designs of beverege servers, tea and coffee pots to count, from two cup on up. Just beware if you start looking at this stuff because interest turns to compulsion to addiction if you have the least bit of weakness for cookware or ceramics or modern design or glass or finding neat stuff cheap or finding unopened boxes of merchandise 40 or more years old at estate sales & such.
Corning Ware cook ware is a world in itself. There are all kinds of strange, limited production and experimental pieces for collectors. There is probably enough of the regular shapes and sizes to be recycled to new users for a couple of generations at least. As long as cooks have not put scratches in the glaze, it emerges from a trip through a self cleaning oven looking new. There are so many microwaving tasks for which the various Corning pieces are perfect. You can have real fun if you find some of the Cook Mates pieces with the ground flat bases. With those and a heater base or two from the Electromatic Skillets, or as Corning later named it, the Table Range, you can have thermostatically controlled cooking with very even heat across the base of the pans and even get by without a cooktop if necessary.
While this may be only one step up from a matching set of salad bowls from CoolWhip, I love the 1.5 quart or 1.75 in the P series saucepans for my individual tossed salad. I think the pans show beautiful design work.
If you like coffee or tea, there are too many designs of beverege servers, tea and coffee pots to count, from two cup on up. Just beware if you start looking at this stuff because interest turns to compulsion to addiction if you have the least bit of weakness for cookware or ceramics or modern design or glass or finding neat stuff cheap or finding unopened boxes of merchandise 40 or more years old at estate sales & such.
Before we were married, Cathy bought two pieces of the last Pyroceram French White Corning Ware. Whatever might bake on comes right off with Easy Off MAX Fume Free oven cleaner (the blue can), occasionally followed by Bar Keeper's Friend.
We received an 18-piece box of the fake stoneware "CorningWare" for Christmas and haven't even opened it.
We received an 18-piece box of the fake stoneware "CorningWare" for Christmas and haven't even opened it.
I'm no fan of Corningware other than Corelle for everyday dishes because they're light and long lasting. But then Veg showed a pic of that Electro Matic skillet and I just had to have one LOL Which of course meant I needed the accoutrements to go along with it and so my little collection of CorningWare has begun.
polkanut
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We have 10 CorningWare Grab-It bowls and the plastic covers to match. I love them for reheating soups, and casseroles, etc. Wouldn't trade 'em for the world.
dynaflow
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electromatic
I use my corn flower blue electromatic percolater everyday at home and at work
never can ahve less than one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..LOL
I use my corn flower blue electromatic percolater everyday at home and at work
never can ahve less than one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..LOL
Since it's confession time, I have to admit that I am the one who has the over-active collecting bug for Corning Centura dinnerware. I had the VCCC (vac-club) convention attendees to my house for a wash-in and dinner last September for around 80-85 people and nobody had to eat on a foam plate - there was enough Centura for everyone. Is that too much? Apparently not. ;-) I have about half and half of the Centura Coupe which is plain white and the Cornflower pattern with the familiar blue flowers from the casseroles, etc. I also have been lucky to find much of my standard Corning Ware NIB or in remarkably mint condition. I won't say I have a lot of that, but I doubt anyone would be surprised if I showed up with a Cornflower ring pattern tattooed around my bicep!
Have fun collecting - it's no longer made and although, as Tom said, not all that rare, but it's fun and that's all that matters.
Have fun collecting - it's no longer made and although, as Tom said, not all that rare, but it's fun and that's all that matters.
Grab-it bowls
I forgot that I have two old grab-it bowls. Those poor things have gotten a workout - but are still giving service.
The grab-it bowls are now heaving a heavy sigh of relief as their new Corningware friends are taking over cooking duties for a while.
I forgot that I have two old grab-it bowls. Those poor things have gotten a workout - but are still giving service.
The grab-it bowls are now heaving a heavy sigh of relief as their new Corningware friends are taking over cooking duties for a while.
Dynaflow, you are aware of the safety problem with the glue holding the handle band on the Electromatic perks. To be safe, tip the pots to pour; do not lift them from the counter or table and never carry one across the room by the handle without supporting the weight from underneath.
Loved that smooth variable pitch turbine transmission. Our 63 Wildcat was one of the cars in which I learned to drive.
Loved that smooth variable pitch turbine transmission. Our 63 Wildcat was one of the cars in which I learned to drive.
Spice O Life
I could not stand the stuff growing up, Mother bought every piece available in "Spice o Life" design. I have learned to love it over the years, now when I have people over they offer to buy it??? Don't know what that is about must be collectable?
Now that mother is gone it is that catogory "not going anywhere over my dead body". LOL
I could not stand the stuff growing up, Mother bought every piece available in "Spice o Life" design. I have learned to love it over the years, now when I have people over they offer to buy it??? Don't know what that is about must be collectable?
Now that mother is gone it is that catogory "not going anywhere over my dead body". LOL
The absolute ugliest was that Pennsylvania Dutch pattern called Friendship or something like that with, what was it, two people facing each other in a barnyard rendered in bold primary colors? I like the blue Cornflower and also have a bunch of the all white pans in the A style, the second design with the wider ears and better fitting covers. Although I like the P series a bit more because it was the first, the rubber snap on storage seals for the A series are great.
Then there is the white with the black swirl design that is on certain P-style pans and Electromatics and the green medallion made for Shell Gasoline giveaways with purchase--Buy gas get pans; use pans get gas. The round white pans were originally the buffet servers for the Centura when they had the white pyroceram covers with the black T-shaped knobs and are marked Centura on the base. The covers were designed long before microwave ovens started being sold as countertop size appliances and are not able to be used in them. The same round shapes in white with slightly domed glass covers were sold exclusively by Sears. Then the round pans were offered to all dealers in avocado & butterscotch with the solid Pyroceram lids with matching color round knob, but again, the cement that held the knob in place had a way of failing over time, generally resulting in someone holding the knob and the lid falling and breaking on the floor. If you find the lids intact, it's kinda rare. Corning discontinued the lid design since they cannot go in the microwave because of the metal shaft through knob and the whole cement failure problem. The metal shaft is not a screw. It has a knurled section where the cement was held. If the knob comes off completely and nothing breaks, you can mix up two part epoxy like Bull Dog and put it back together. It will hold very well if you use enough. I like to use the round 10" skillets as pie pans for Crumb Top Apple Pie. They are deep enough that you can really pile the apples high without the syrup boiling over.
Sometimes at estate sales you will see black metal trays with a round recess for the Buffet Server, fake wood grain handles on the sides and a slot along the back. The Buffet Server sat in this cradle and the lid was held upright in the slot during serving.
About the Electromatic perk parts on eBay: People offer the parts since they are not allowed to sell an item recalled for safety reasons, but I am told that sellers generally throw in the coffee pot for lagniappe when you buy the parts.
Then there is the white with the black swirl design that is on certain P-style pans and Electromatics and the green medallion made for Shell Gasoline giveaways with purchase--Buy gas get pans; use pans get gas. The round white pans were originally the buffet servers for the Centura when they had the white pyroceram covers with the black T-shaped knobs and are marked Centura on the base. The covers were designed long before microwave ovens started being sold as countertop size appliances and are not able to be used in them. The same round shapes in white with slightly domed glass covers were sold exclusively by Sears. Then the round pans were offered to all dealers in avocado & butterscotch with the solid Pyroceram lids with matching color round knob, but again, the cement that held the knob in place had a way of failing over time, generally resulting in someone holding the knob and the lid falling and breaking on the floor. If you find the lids intact, it's kinda rare. Corning discontinued the lid design since they cannot go in the microwave because of the metal shaft through knob and the whole cement failure problem. The metal shaft is not a screw. It has a knurled section where the cement was held. If the knob comes off completely and nothing breaks, you can mix up two part epoxy like Bull Dog and put it back together. It will hold very well if you use enough. I like to use the round 10" skillets as pie pans for Crumb Top Apple Pie. They are deep enough that you can really pile the apples high without the syrup boiling over.
Sometimes at estate sales you will see black metal trays with a round recess for the Buffet Server, fake wood grain handles on the sides and a slot along the back. The Buffet Server sat in this cradle and the lid was held upright in the slot during serving.
About the Electromatic perk parts on eBay: People offer the parts since they are not allowed to sell an item recalled for safety reasons, but I am told that sellers generally throw in the coffee pot for lagniappe when you buy the parts.
Pennsylvania Dutch pattern called Friendship
This it?
This it?
dynaflow
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electromatic
Thx tom
I am very aware of the problem but love the pots to much not to use makes wonderful coffee my partner and i are coffe hounds
Thx tom
I am very aware of the problem but love the pots to much not to use makes wonderful coffee my partner and i are coffe hounds
