Speaking of Faberware . . .

[spankomatic]

Pressure cooker and stew

I got the pressure cooker on QVC about 5 years ago. It was a great purchase. When I cooked the stew..... I first browned the stew meat. Then I put it in the pressure cooker with beef broth,sauted onions and garlic,celary,red wine. It was about 4 lbs of stew meat that I got at Costco. I pressure cooked it for 53 min. Directions say 17 min per pound of meat. Then the last additional 17 min I added the carrots and potatos. Came out really good. The meat is very tender!

Jim

 

[spankomatic]

Diswasher and Trash compactor

The dishwasher is a lower end Bosch. It came with the house. Don't really like it.... It cleans very well,is quiet, but does not load well and takes 2 hours each load. There is only normal wash and rinse hold cycles. NO other choices. No place to put long utensils,silverware basket is in the middle which is right where I like to put my pressure cooker insert,it's dishwasher safe. Wish I had a Kitchenaid KDS-18! Easy loading,good cleaning,sani cycle,dryed dishes all in about 1 hour.

The trash compactor is a Kenmore. Seems to work well for a trash compactor.

 

[stevet]

I went west, young man!

GadgetGary, I did actually mail the old Farberware pots to their California address as per their website. I used to send them da Bronx when they were owned by Kidde Industries and they always returned them looking like new. I have sent many covers that had broken studs on them as well as the 12 inch frypan with broken studs for the assist handle and those always lossening screws on the main handles. Always the same fast, FREE service. It cost me to mail them out but free on the return side.
IIRC, it took about 2.5 weeks to turn it around and back to me here in Florida.
It really is amazing how many people DO NOT take advantage of their lifetime warranties! Stop thinking Throw Away and hold on to those things that work forever.

 

[stevet]

Don't shoot the messenger!

Spankomatic,
Would you be mad at me if I told you I have 2 KDS18's? One in our Kitchen and one in the Garage.
If you lived closer....
Gotta love those short cycle times! And yep! The dishes do come out clean! and DRY!

 

[toggleswitch]

Who Luvs Ya baby?

Toggle, and ye shall receive.

 

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Girl .....my finger feels like Jane Jetson's...........

printed: 10/92

 

[toggleswitch]

Sandy,

For a hard-copy please send me your snail-mail address privately.

Ditto anyone else who would like a paper copy!

 

[danemodsandy]

My, He IS a Thoughtful Gentleman...

Toggles:

I am absolutely stunned that you took the time to scan and post twenty pages! Thank you SO much!

I appreciate the offer of a hard copy, but really, by saving this to my hard drive (which I just finished doing) and printing the result, I think I'm good.

Again, my thanks. This made my day.

 

[danemodsandy]

Interesting...

...They warn you pretty sternly not to use any other temp control but theirs.

What's interesting about that was that Farberware developed their probe control in conjunction with Presto, creating an industry standard for probe size and pin spacing. They were designed to work alike, and Farberware was in on it in the beginning.

 

[toggleswitch]

I"l forward the bill I get for bandwidth to you........

I've been called SO MANY things but a Gentleman?
*HUFFS AND PUFFS AND STORMS OFF*
WELL I NEVER.

You are very welcome!

 

[toggleswitch]

I guess you could say that thye are warning you that sticking someone else's temperature probe into your device could cause sparks to fly and some not-so-desirable other issues.

 

[jamiel]

Yes, but Hoover for one uses a temperature probe cast into the pan which is accommodated into a small cast aluminum hole in the temperature control (so there are 3 holes---FFF on a Hoover temperature controller, but only two--and a probe--FMF on a Presto/Farber/Sunbeam). Not compatible and you'd burn out the pan if you tried to use it (nothing for the pan to tell the controller to shut off).