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Old 03-15-2013, 03:39 PM
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Kamakiri, sorry the stove was a bit of a bust. Cleaning up vintage kitchen grease is the worst. Too bad it didn't rust-proof the stove better. On your comment about the inefficient use of space on the range top, my mother loves to talk about growing up in the 40's, and the intense lack of kitchen space in most homes (well, at least in the area where she grew up). Her mother had a similar stove, and that large slab of porcelain on the right side was the food prep area, given that they didn't really have any counterspace. Just a long sink that had been adapted from a hand pump, and the accompanying tilt board for the dishes to dry on.

As for horrible vintage appliances, there were plenty of them, especially the crummy off-brand stuff that came from drug stores in the 30s and 40s that were copies of name-brand appliances. I'm thinking of smaller stuff like sandwich grills, toasters, etc. Where the plating was thinner, flimsy sheetmetal, fewer heating elements, less insulation, etc. We don't see much of that stuff today since it worked so poorly right out of the box, it was tossed in the following decades.
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