This Weekend at the Estate Sales!

[norgeway]

Well, this Friday and Saturday were productive...A BRAND NEW NEVER USED Hoover stainless electric frypan, A Vita Craft 2 burner griddle,a Jet O Matic percolator, and a heavy very old Wear Ever tube pan, it weighs about twice what a new one does.And a set of Cutco knives with the wall rack.....for 5 dollars, I did pay 24.00 for the Hoover Pan, but when do you find new ones!!!

 

[petek]

Neat... Have you tried the Jet O Matic yet... it's a deserved name, great sounding perk

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Great Finds!

Please let us know what you think about the Jet-O-Matic perk. Everyone I have known says the coffee is not hot enough or strong enough. It uses a strange & noisy brewing principle of blowing steam and water up the pump tube. It's worth keeping for the strange noise it makes and it does have a neat shape. I have also seen then with white plastic trim.

The griddle looks like new.

I wonder what happened to the market for electric skillets. Except for this crowd, I don't know of anyone who uses one anymore.

 

[norgeway]

Re Jetomatic

I never use a perc except when company comes or to make tea in, I cant stand coffee...I love to smell it, but it tastes as nasty as red wine does!LOL...Im like Ed Sullivan, he put sweet and low in his glass of red wine everyday at dinner!!, If im somewhere and get served coffee, I add about a half a cup of sugar to it, no amount of sugar can make me drink wine...of any kind!! I have another Jet, but this one wasn't but a dollar so I couldn't say no...the griddle was 50 cents!!LOL

 

[maytagbear]

Does the Hoover fry pan

have the warming drawer? NICE haul, Hans!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[lordkenmore]

Nice finds!

>I wonder what happened to the market for electric skillets. Except for this crowd, I don't know of anyone who uses one anymore.

Now that you mention it, it seems like I almost never see or hear signs of people using them, except here. The only exception was the couple who used to be the business managers of the property where I live. They lived elsewhere, and would come here a couple of times a year. Apparently, they found an electric skillet helpful while camping out in an almost empty house.

However, there must be other users, because they are still made. I even see modern electric skillets in Goodwill, often missing the temperature control. (Failed already? Or did Goodwill lose it?) Although I'm not sure those new skillets are very good--they often feel a lot lighter and thinner than what was once made. (Is this news?!?)

 

[jamiel]

I've got that electric skillet in Harvest Gold--was my grandmother's. One grandmother loved her electric skillet and used it every day (an old Sunbeam) and the other never used hers (she believed in cast iron).

 

[gansky1]

Nice finds Hans! I love my Cutco knives, most all of mine came from estate sales, too. Lifetime warranty and sharpening service, just mail them back to NY and they return like new again. Best knives ever!

I've never had one but remember my mother's Westinghouse electric skillet had a broiler element in the lid. She used it all the time. I found her another one NIB at a sale but don't know if she's ever even tried it. We had a Universal gas range so that may be why she liked the small electrics more back then, now she has an electric range

I've found a couple of Jet coffee pots - one branded Saladmaster. They sound like an old heart-lung life support machine but make only so-so coffee.

 

[warmsecondrinse]

@ LordKenmore

With a skillet one needs neither a stove nor a frying pan so I can see why it'd be used if you don't want to disturb where you're working/living.

As an undergrad I lived in a dorm with a 'kitchen' consisting of a 'fridge, huge sink, NO stove, and acres of counter with many, many outlets. All of us had raided our mothers' and grandmothers' kitchens to assemble a collection of almost every counter-top appliance imaginable.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that older ones generally had high sides (making them more versatile) and the electrical components could be easily removed to make the whole thing dishwasher safe. Aren't modern skillets are sealed and dishwasher safe as well? However, wasn't there quite a span of time in between during which neither was the case?

Wouldn't that explain the decline in popularity?

Jim

Jim

 

[philr]

The Hoover electric fry pan is very interesting!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

It could be that with the advent of dishwashers, homemakers would rather use a fry pan that could be washed in the dishwashers instead of having to wash the electric skillet by hand. I think it was Sunbeam that tried to overcome that by having the detachable handles and legs in the 70s to make them easier to fit in the machine.

 

[petek]

that appears to be the Hoover Tri Pan fry pan with the additional burner in the lid for broiling etc.  I'd never use mine for that purpose because of the cleaning aspect and we're not broiler people  LOL

 

 

[lordkenmore]

>It could be that with the advent of dishwashers, homemakers would rather use a fry pan that could be washed in the dishwashers instead of having to wash the electric skillet by hand.

That definitely could be the case.

>I think it was Sunbeam that tried to overcome that by having the detachable handles and legs in the 70s to make them easier to fit in the machine.

No idea about Sunbeam, but I seem to recall that a Presto my mother had used easily removable handles. She got it in the 1970s someplace. She used that pan a lot, but probably never used the removable handle option. (All dishes were washed by hand.)

 

[dynaflow]

our little joke with one another

Beulah, you are the luckiest thing

 

[twintubdexter]

what a find!

I bought one of those Hoover stainless fry pans years ago at a thrift store and like yours it was unused. It reeked of quality, very different than the aluminum Presto I have now. As I recall the handles were removable for cleaning...very Hoover.

 

[norgeway]

My Mother

Had one for years, the control went bad and we couldn't find a new one, but She loved it better than any she ever had., I remember nothing ever stuck and it heated very evenly, the handles do indeed remove for cleaning, it has a warming tray, and a tilt leg.real quality.

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Great finds Hans, as always! That Hoover is fabulous! I have one with the copper lid NIB. I have another one like the one you found, with the broiler lid and kickstand and warming drawer that I use every few months, and we just throw it in the Dishwasher to clean it - they're fully immersable, which was another thing that made it such a great frypan. That and the fact that the cooking surface is Stainless Steel makes the cleanup super easy. Now you can make Hoover Fried Chicken! Yummm!