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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I've had the privilage of cookin on a wood stove one time. And if all of em have as small of fire boxes as this one had, I can see how they didn't burn things, you hafta keep feedin it wood. I wasn't bakin tho, cookin on top. It was the only source of heat....and it would burn out about every hour, and I'd hafta crawl myself outta my sleepin bag and start the fire again.
Well twice, but other time was pizza. LOL yes pizza. We had an ice storm and no electricity for 4 days with temps around 16 degrees......Wood heater stove with two eyes....put the pizza on a cookie sheet sittin on top for a while, then underneath to brown the top for a few minutes.
 

sw

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Hey Cowboyup, I have those books somewhere around here, I'll have to go look for them.
My great grandmother used her wood stove to cook with till the day she died, would not think of using electricity. She was amazing. Every year for Christmas she would make all kinds of candy, all on the wood stove, and she was getting so blind she had to hear your voice to know who you were but she kept on using the wood stove.
 

Faster horses

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Funny how those old stoves were; they got to be your friend. The
cooks in those days knew just what to expect from their stove.

I kinda had the same experience only mine was with a 1972 Frigidare electric stove. I had bought a gas stove and it was awful. Wonder it didn't burn the house down. On branding day it would get so hot from the oven, that you couldn't turn the burners off on top. Had to cool the oven down to turn the burners off. It scorched the metal cabinets it sat next to. You didn't dare touch it because of the heat it produced. It must not have had any insulation.

I traded a person for a Frididare electic. Hers was the same age as mine, but hers was the coppertone color and mine was white. She didn't cook much and she wanted white to match her kitchen. That was probably the
best trade I ever made. That Frigidare stove baked so nice that the 4-H
kids would come to our house to bake their goods for the fair. It had
a self-cleaning oven, so it was very well insulated and heavy as could be.
I got so I could go outside when I was cooking and know when to come
back in to turn something that was frying on the stove. It had a timer, so
I could put food in to cook when we were riding and it would be done when
we got home. It was really my friend.

Then when we moved here, our daughter said we needed a new stove.
When my mother-in-law came to visit however, she said, "You've still got the old stove." After all it had been through 2 moves 18 years apart. The chrome part was peeling off the back and it did look like it had done
it's share of work. I hadn't noticed. This was my 'friend', after all. But after her remark I started noticing and pretty soon, I wanted a new stove.
So I got one. Glass top, convection oven, self-cleaning, digital congrols. The whole bit. I have burned more stuff on this stove in a year than I did that old one the whole time I owned it. This stove bakes wonderfully, but there is something the matter with the burners on top. On the main burner I have no leeway on heat. I have to keep it turned down as far
as possible. Of course, I wouldn't dare go outside while something is cooking. Now I have had this stove for 7 years and I still don't like it. as well as the Frigidare. It was 27 years old when I sold it to a lady in ND.
Should have kept my old friend...

Maybe there is a lesson in this somewhere. Ya' think?
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I use the timer on my stove for all kinda things besides cookin. If I start a load of white clothes, and need to add bleach, if I walk off, I'll forget....so I set the timer for 5 minutes...just long enuff for the washer to fill and then I can add bleach.
If I'm fillin up water barrels to haul out to the heifers, it takes ruffly 15 minutes to fill up a 55 gallon barrel with the water hose...I haul two at a time.....if I forget to set the timer....they are gonna sit out there and run over.
My coffee maker crapped out here while back so I"m usin the old perkilator aluminum pot on the stove top.......I set the timer for about 10 minutes, burner on high.....that way I don't boil the coffee forever.

Even tho I use that timer for all kinda things this stove has NEVER been my "friend" bought it new about 18 years ago. It's electric. None of the burner elements will stay level in their slots.....the oven racks are crooked..so cakes always come out lopsided. It will take a notion ever now and then to suddenly go from 350 degrees...to the temp of hell.....burned a turkey year before last.... I would like another stove but I don't want anything that's new. Computerized touch pads ain't fer me.
I'd really like to find a industrial stove that would fit in the stove slot in my kitchen..one that's all stainless.

My dad's still washin clothes with the old maytag that my mom bought back in 1962. it's had many replaced parts over the years...but man that thing purrs like a kitten...quiet..washes good.....wish they made em like that now.
 

nr

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this is a bit of a switcheroo, but my husband, who doesn't cook a lick, has been urging me to buy a new oven. guess I've complained a few times too often about it being so small it is hard to serve a crowd of folks and about the temperature always running high. But I'm rebelling about getting another one because of the hassle of moving cabinets/ losing cabinets. I'm sort of half thinking of having another one installed in the laundry area which is behind the kitchen and keeping the old one as it is in the kitchen. Everybody tells me that is weird.
So far I'm solving the situation by not making any decision :roll:
 

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