If one knows this lot it certainly will not be, *LOL*
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The Last Word In Automatic Dishwashing
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firedome
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It's great to see one in action again!
In 1953 our new neighborhood just N of Baltimore had several homes that had those Youngstown Electric Sink units installed, including our next door neighbor, and my best friend Scott's house across the street! I spent many an hour watching that Jet Tower do it's thing! They were so primitive... no detergent dispenser, no drying cycle or cycles of any kind, and with such a limited capacity, it was a very good thing that the wash took only 9 3/4 minutes! Still, I was so jealous, because at home we still washed by hand until a KDS-15 finally arrived in 1965!
In 1953 our new neighborhood just N of Baltimore had several homes that had those Youngstown Electric Sink units installed, including our next door neighbor, and my best friend Scott's house across the street! I spent many an hour watching that Jet Tower do it's thing! They were so primitive... no detergent dispenser, no drying cycle or cycles of any kind, and with such a limited capacity, it was a very good thing that the wash took only 9 3/4 minutes! Still, I was so jealous, because at home we still washed by hand until a KDS-15 finally arrived in 1965!
Love my Youngstown!
Tower dishwashing is the only way to go for drama and hand scrubbing!
That is a great commerical video, very well done I think.
Tower dishwashing is the only way to go for drama and hand scrubbing!
That is a great commerical video, very well done I think.
Louis
this was the video I was going to convert for your television years ago!!
this was the video I was going to convert for your television years ago!!
westingman123
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Oh, my.
I'd sell a body part for those YK cabinets. I have the electric sink in the garage awaiting attention. I should be out there instead of in here, huh? *LOL*
I'd sell a body part for those YK cabinets. I have the electric sink in the garage awaiting attention. I should be out there instead of in here, huh? *LOL*
Jon
For my television?
IIRC I posted this video years ago. There must be a video too on the Prelinger Archives of a choir singing the praise of Youngstown kitchens!
For my television?
IIRC I posted this video years ago. There must be a video too on the Prelinger Archives of a choir singing the praise of Youngstown kitchens!
Really enjoyed that video. Love the opening music and it's always interesting to hear the speech pattern and words used by the narrators etc in those old films.
Yes Louis
but I'm also talking years ago when I was burning DVD's.
I was going to send you a copy.
but I'm also talking years ago when I was burning DVD's.
I was going to send you a copy.
Looks like a fairly effective machine. Its a pity though that the 180F water isn't as hot once the machine gets under way, from the cold tub. If I were them, I'd have used a little "mister" styled spray that sprayed around the top ring of the tub to heat it prior to the drain shutting and the machine running the washing cycle.
By the way, is the spray just at the top of the dishwasher, and splashback from the glasses on top used to wash down the plates/saucers in the lower rack, or am I missing something?
By the way, is the spray just at the top of the dishwasher, and splashback from the glasses on top used to wash down the plates/saucers in the lower rack, or am I missing something?
By the looks of it the rectangular spray tube fits onto the bottom of the tub and extends upwards of the top rack with small wash jets (or just holes) along each of its 4 sides side top to bottom, so everything on both racks is in a horizontal line of fire.
vintagekitchen
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Looks like it was actually a very good design, and should have done a good job cleaning as there really was no way for the dishes not to be loaded properly to be in the path of the jets of water. Unfortunately that also helped limit its capacity from what I could see. Anyone else notice that square inch for square inch, round racks just don't hold as much?
Side note, but interesting that rather than using a detergent dispenser, or simply chucking the detergent in, they show you to put it into one of the coffee cups.
Side note, but interesting that rather than using a detergent dispenser, or simply chucking the detergent in, they show you to put it into one of the coffee cups.
Tower dishwashing is the only way to go for drama and hand s
Jon, was the hand scrubbing done before or after the dishes were washed in the Youngstown?
Jon, was the hand scrubbing done before or after the dishes were washed in the Youngstown?
Tom
BOTH!
BOTH!
dishwasherfan
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Love the old videos
I enjoy the old videos that influence the public behavior to change it's household habits & embrace technology. Teaching the mechanics of the machine, scientific studies of the results....so 1950's. And it's a sales pitches....love it.
I enjoy the old videos that influence the public behavior to change it's household habits & embrace technology. Teaching the mechanics of the machine, scientific studies of the results....so 1950's. And it's a sales pitches....love it.
One Saw "Her Indoor's"
Loading that DW by merely scrapping the dishes and was thinking "oh yes, that's really going to work". *LOL*
Don't know if automatic dishwashing powders were out at the time, otherwise it was powdered soap to do the work and all the problems that presented.
First without a supply of *HOT* (>140F) and soft water it probably was going to be a mess of mineral deposits and food gunk in there. Secondly one cannot imagine glassware coming out "sparkling" from such a brew.
Loading that DW by merely scrapping the dishes and was thinking "oh yes, that's really going to work". *LOL*
Don't know if automatic dishwashing powders were out at the time, otherwise it was powdered soap to do the work and all the problems that presented.
First without a supply of *HOT* (>140F) and soft water it probably was going to be a mess of mineral deposits and food gunk in there. Secondly one cannot imagine glassware coming out "sparkling" from such a brew.
Marketing 101 Hasn't Changed In Over 50 Fears! *LOL*
Film is all about selling the benefits of the unit to Madame rather than just getting her to purchase a dishwasher. Since His Nibbs would have to fork over any salesman had two potential customers, and the guy who held the wallet was often then as how the hardest sale.
A few other points:
That is quite allot of food the lady is scrapping down that disposer, especially for the 1950's. There might have been a post-war boom going on but many still wouldn't throw that much food basically into the garbage.
Without a near boiling hot rinse and perhaps rinse agent those dishes may have been washed in 9.5 minutes but they weren't likely to be dry. One supposes you had to put things onto a towel, drying rack or hand dry them if you wanted to do another load quickly.
Film is all about selling the benefits of the unit to Madame rather than just getting her to purchase a dishwasher. Since His Nibbs would have to fork over any salesman had two potential customers, and the guy who held the wallet was often then as how the hardest sale.
A few other points:
That is quite allot of food the lady is scrapping down that disposer, especially for the 1950's. There might have been a post-war boom going on but many still wouldn't throw that much food basically into the garbage.
Without a near boiling hot rinse and perhaps rinse agent those dishes may have been washed in 9.5 minutes but they weren't likely to be dry. One supposes you had to put things onto a towel, drying rack or hand dry them if you wanted to do another load quickly.
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You can see the link at the end of the OP Youtube post for the Youngstown DW.
You can see the link at the end of the OP Youtube post for the Youngstown DW.
Well if you turned on the heat booster
when the lid popped the dishes did dry quickly. I saw that in Roberts machine. But clean in 9 minutes is even a stretch for me.
when the lid popped the dishes did dry quickly. I saw that in Roberts machine. But clean in 9 minutes is even a stretch for me.
mrcleanjeans
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Yes it dried fast with that 180-185 degree heat boost. And dishes did get clean if you did not let food soils dry onto them. There were 3 detergents out back then. Calgonite, Electrosol,and Chat-which was used in the Keiser. The 1st two detergents were relatively good, but detergents got much better as time advanced.Cascade debuted,as did All and Finish,later in the 50s.
