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Lawrence/Maytagbear

If you want, I have a turquoise covered cassarole dish (oval-maybe 10 inches long or so) somewhere in my basement. If you want it (when I find it that is), it's yours. I have no use for it and just bought it because it was pretty. :)

E-mail me at [email protected] and I can keep your info to remind me to find it.

Heather
 
I'll just pretend that I didn't see a plastic microwave oven sitting on the counter where there should be a Radarange. LOL
Did you have mashed taters a la Sunbeam?
 
Mike, great job on the shelves, was that rust on them? And what did you use to get them so clean? Is the fridge up in the kitchen now?

Dan..The kitchen looks great. What did you mom think of the Flair? Oh, and did you make whipped potatoes in the Sunbeam?
 
Dan and Pete

Dan, as always, I love seeing pictures of your house. Like Pete, I'd like to know what your mom thinks of the Flair. I have a turquoise Le Crueset skillet that weighs a ton.

Pete, I was going to do the shelves myself and I went to the hardware store to rent a sandblaster and stuff and the guy said for what I was going to have to spend to do the job painting it, I could get them powdercoated. So I went to a powder coating guy and he said those shelves are about the hardest thing in the world to powder coat because of all the angles. He said for about the same amount of money, I could get them chromed. Because they just dip the things in acid to burn of the rust and the old coating (which was actually zink) and then dip the shelves in a vat. So I went for it. The estimate was 2 weeks to get it done. When one partnership break-up, one motorcycle accident and one blown up chrome plating machine later, I have my shelves back, in a mere 3 months.

So, I didn't do the shelves. They were professionally rechromed. And the fridge has been in my kitchen since the day I got it. It has been in use, I just haven't had any shelves in it.
 
Everyone

I didn't think I'd have to say this, but...

There was no "boil-in" at my house. I thought that would be obvious, but apparently not. This thread is what you would call a spoof. It's meant to entertain. I stumbled across the unreal tea kettle in the pictures recently and BethAnn said to post pictures of this thing if it actually works and spins the rockets and I said I would.

So, this was a fun way of presenting my "new" tea kettle to the group, by doing a spoof of a "wash-in". Maybe there really is a tea kettle enthusiast group out there somewhere, I don't know, but I just made up whistlingteakettle.org as a spoof on automaticwasher.org. If there was another group like this that was passionate about tea kettles rather than washing machines, what would their names be? Smartboil110, Whistlers Mother, Liptonator, I had a blast coming up with the names.

A tea kettle with a fill cycle, a spin cycle, a warm/warm setting? If nothing else, me pulling the agitator for inspection should have been a dead give-away that I was clowning around? Well, either my sense of humor was way off the mark this time or some of you have been around here long enough that something like a "Boil-in" seems completely plausable. I was only kidding around.

And I never melted Gumby down to Liquid Gumby either, just for the record. Gumby's still alive and well and Bart is just fine as well.
 
Mike:

I for one got it.....
That there was no boil-in.

Love that your vintage fridge does not have an air vent that would push cooled our out of an evaporator coil in the freezer.Here is the WIFM. Must Always tell people of the WIFM.(*What's in it for me*.)

With a little mini self-defrosting U-shaped evaporator coil in the fridge, foods last longer. Less *freezer-burn*. Fewer dried out foods(Editor's note: We KNOW your humor will NEVER dry up.. LOL. Also smell of, say onions or scallions, won't migrate to ice cubes in fridge- two cavites are sealed one from the other. (I REALLY dont' need to explain that one further do I?).

Be prepared, one day Toggle may decided to impose upon you a Regal visit....LOL

YOU da MAN. Response is always: *Someone in this relationship has to be...*

Best regards,
Steve
 
Thanks for the info Toggle

The fridge is a long term project and Phase II is now complete. I see four phases all together.

I'm glad you got the joke. It never occurred to me that people wouldn't question that someone would travel from Iowa to PA just to watch a pot boil! Especially after the guy from Sweden took so much heat for stealing pictures. I figured we had some real Columbos on hand. Heck, I'm not even wearing the same shirt in those pictures. I cobbled that whole fantasy together from different soirees.
 
Well I, for one, really did have a flair-in. It was held last Thursday, and people came from as far away as Iowa and Nebraska, and we cooked a turkey, mashed potatoes, soup, etc, etc, etc.

Oh, wait.... That was Thanksgiving.

Pete, I would love an old RadarRange, but they are so HUGE! Since we don't often use the microwave anyway, it would take up too much space. I wish I could find a smaller one than that one you see in the picture, but I haven't been able to yet.

Potatoes were made with a Ricer and Sunbeam hand mixer (your choice of yellow or Turquoise)

And yes, my mom puts squirt in the gravy. Doesn't everybody? Squirt and Maraschino cherries.

Oh wait....that's her Ambrosia salad. No matter the dinner tasted so weird.
 
Steaming Hot!

Said: It never occurred to me that people wouldn't question that someone would travel from Iowa to PA just to watch a pot boil!

HA.. I went to Nebraska and Arizona to see an agitator or two..And I would have gone to Texas too... (Trade secret: it's not so much the machines --for me-- its the PEOPLE who LIKE the machines).

Now Vera/ Mike. Do you mean to tell me those lovely girls would not travel to see your pot boil (over)? Especially the cutie examining your navel.....Come on now. I get people here to sample my (kithcen) goodies all the time.

Hi Dan! So how does one cook potatoes after they have been riced? Is this a must-have accessory, like my chicken BP?
 
and then there was this thought....

Said: I don’t even want to be present later during the post-shindig activities. That’s why I set up video cameras in all the guest bedrooms.

Did this not tip anyone off that the above was fiction?
 
Also Said: I was very nervous about the virgin run of the Rocket-Strat-o-Matic-Boil-Master 2000. What if it seized up and sent water and oil all over the floor? So many things could go wrong and I was worried that the whole Boil-in would be a big disaster. So, before the party, I pulled the agitator ......

You may have pulled your agitator to calm down before some party, but yet another clue, tea-pots don't usually seize up and leak oil..
 
Perhaps some of us

have inhaled just a bit too much vintage detergent?

I thought it was a spoof all along (and nicely done, too.)

Love and laughter!

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Damn, I think they call it tunnel vision

I will be 100% honest, as I always try to be.

I bought that hook, line and sinker. I figured there was a group into antique kettle collecting. Of course, I thought you were kidding about the agitator and the oil, in context of a real story.

I bought all the names of the people too. I figured many here have intereseting and fun names, why not there.

My wife is a member of a group that is really into Phantom of the Opera. Her interest is mild compared to some of these people, as you can imagine. I won't even go into some of their club names.

The fact that I know nothing about kettles and interests, I was fooled. I do know that there are big collectors of SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERs! not to mention Fiestaware, so I didn't think twice.

That said, MY MOM makes the gravy too, which we just had. My wife's turkey came out awesome, (Kimurkey) but my mom did the gravy. She does that thing in the pan that your mom is doing, and I don't know what they do!

I tried gravy two times. Last time was not bad. The first time I made it, it smelled great, looked great, and tasted exactly like paste!
 
Mike, Mike, Mike!

You we're suppose to post a picture, not form a group. LOL.

You probably had everyone trying to find the thing.

Nobody's gonna trust ya now. HA! Sneaky! Pretty damn funny though. So, does it work right?
 
Prognosis

It does work. Occasionally it got kind of hung up and I just gave it a little push to get it past the hang up and then it went back to its normal revolution. It honestly did scare me a little. I thought it was going to blow up like a pressure cooker. There is steam coming out of the rockets in the picture, but the camera didn't pick up the steam much for some reason.

I'm sorry BethAnn. I guess I got a little carried away.
 
Too Funny!

Mike-

I was laughing so hard as I was reading the "Boil-In" postings and looking at the pictures...

You really had me fooled as well, until I typed "whistlingteakettle.org" into my browser, and came back with nothing.

You're quite good at writing farce. Not sure if anyone's heard of it, but I'm reminded of a local newspaper gone national called The Onion. Their business is 'fake news' and *most of the time* is hilarious--a good break from a lot of the depressing news that fills page after page of regular newspapers. You should consider becoming a corresponeant.. :)

Check it out:

http://www.theonion.com
 

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