roger’s pick-up: dead kitchen appliances
July 12, 2011 by admin
Filed under Kitchen Accessories
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roger’s pick-up: dead kitchen appliances
Image by greenhem
ok, i think these are sexy because they are being salvaged, i.e., re-used.
i met roger when i moved onto this street. he found me a great plant stand for my window, nice & rusty! he collects metal from among the stuff, er, consumer goods, that folk leave on the sidewalk. he makes a few bucks selling it as scrap metal. i found out that he lost his home in a fire years ago. i suppose like all our stories, that’s only part of his.
there was recently an article in the local paper saying residents are complaining about pick-up trucks parking overnight with "stuff" in them – an eyesore they say. i guess they’d rather see it all in the land fill that is now overflowing. oh wait, they never SEE the landfill.
“Country Charm” stove in our kitchen
Image by litlnemo
IF YOU ARE SEEING THIS IN A CRAIGSLIST AD, PLEASE BE AWARE:
This is NOT the stove that is being advertised. My stove is NOT for sale. The stove being sold on Craigslist may look like this one, but it is not the same one. People keep using this photo without permission.
Here’s the "new" stove we got! Not really new at all… The walls behind it aren’t completely finished yet, but at least now we can cook!
More about the stove… this stove was made by House of Webster. They don’t sell appliances anymore — they sold them from the late 1950s to the early 2000s. This one, I think, is 1970s-vintage. However, it is made of cast iron from an 1875 pattern. It is electric, though, not a wood stove. The "coffee grinder" on the top is actually the clock/timer! The controls for the burners and oven are behind the doors on the left. It works beautifully, except the thermometer on the front door isn’t accurate — it shows about half of the actual temperature. So there is a little hanging thermometer inside the oven. The oven also has an internal thermometer somewhere that works correctly, because it preheats to the correct temperature. Not sure how, but it works…
The "warming ovens" at the top don’t actually stay all that warm since this isn’t a normal wood stove. Right now the right one contains hot pads (especially needed since the iron handle on the oven door gets HOT!)
