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Old 01-10-2010, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
They also showed me the original Hotpoint electric stove in the kitchen from 1946. It had the factory deep-fryer option complete with deep-fryer pot. You lifted the back left burner up and then lowered it in it's tub and it became the burner at the bottom for the pot that would drop in to the space. I had to show them how it worked. Of course the original manual is there.
My parents had a Bendix brand electric stove (from around 1952 or so), and it had the deep fryer pot feature as well. That stove is long gone, but we kept the deep fryer pot, and it gets used to boil spaghetti. But the sauce is done in another pot. We sit it atop a regular burner. It's made of aluminum and I think my mom once cooked something with tomatoes, and tomato sauce will etch aluminum. So lots of little pits in the bottom. Oops. Heard it said that you really don't want aluminum compounds in the food.
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