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Post by cinnabar on Mar 20, 2012 15:31:26 GMT -5
Here is a video of my Dainty Lady in action. She was purchased in 1934 , restored in 2008. Grandmother's stove still going strong. (These burners rock!) cinnabar
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Post by karitx on Mar 20, 2012 16:25:16 GMT -5
I love, love, love Dainty Lady! Thank you for sharing the video - it gave me a much better idea of the size. Even though I've read the measurements, those long legs always make me think it is smaller than it really is, so I imagined the cooktop area to be much smaller. If one of these beauties ever turned up around here, I would probably have to buy it and hope that sporko doesn't divorce me for becoming a stove hoarder.
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Post by ronruble on Mar 20, 2012 16:47:31 GMT -5
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Post by 58limited on Mar 20, 2012 18:01:12 GMT -5
Thanks for the vid. Now I'm hungry for the chicken/rice/cream of mushroom concoction and I can't go to the store - severe storm. This was a "fancy" meal back in college 'cause it wasn't microwaved.
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Post by karitx on Mar 20, 2012 19:20:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the vid. Now I'm hungry for the chicken/rice/cream of mushroom concoction and I can't go to the store - severe storm. This was a "fancy" meal back in college 'cause it wasn't microwaved. It was the biscuits that got me, but I was too lazy to make my own tonight.
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Post by pooka on Mar 21, 2012 5:44:17 GMT -5
That's cool to see Dainty Lady in action. I'm envious of her simplicity, practicality & stylish looks. There's nothing old fashion about a stove that works so well & with so much style. ;D I must say that your Dainty Lady is certainly the "Belle of the Ball". ;D Thanks for sharing that snapshot of your life. It's like watching history in action. Your Lady reminds me of my grandma's stove, although it wasn't a chambers. Your "chicken fryer pan" is identical to my moms & the one pan she wouldn't give me when she let me have her old Wear Ever pans. I had to get my own. It's the pan she used the most while I was growing up. I was just looking up your post called "Top of Range Roasting" where you cooked a whole meal in the one big Wear Ever pot. I just found a set of the half moon shaped pans last week at a thrift store for fifty cents a piece. ;D chamberscommune.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cookware&thread=1840&page=1Simmer for 2 hours and 15 min. Yes I peeked once in a while. I,m going to try to get motivated to throw my own feast together a la your posted method now that I have the half moon pans that I lacked. My little model 74 won't look as stylish doing it as your Lady though. Again, thanks. Your an inspiration.
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Post by cinnabar on Mar 21, 2012 21:15:36 GMT -5
pooka, Score! on the the half moon pans. Found another one here last week too. You will be able to use them in the large roaster.
I was just trying to explain some of the feature of the stove as I made dinner and my son filmed.
karitx, The biscuits were baking powder from scratch. They are so good with honey on them. Really should make them more often.
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Post by pooka on Mar 25, 2012 13:16:39 GMT -5
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Post by cinnabar on Mar 25, 2012 14:40:09 GMT -5
The other wayround, pooka. The #1295 pans were from before WWII. The #801 is in the 1952 Wear ever Literature and is most likely the one shown in the Chambers ad. The trade mark on the one you refer to from eBay is before 1937 however. There are marks and #'s that crossover, which can make identification confusing. Sometimes the mark changed and the numbers did not, and vice versa. Some makers didn't mark them either. In the 1920's-70's there were dozens of manufacturers of alum. cooking utensils. A few slipped by getting and missed getting stamped at the factory. They(wear evers) are the same size pans. I have 4 of them myself. cinn
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Post by pooka on Mar 25, 2012 15:52:36 GMT -5
Thanks cinnabar, I was just curious. The only difference I could see in the marks was that the 1295 pan had a short dash under the o in "No." but my 801's don't. Other than that, they looked identical. I guess the short dash is a sign of on older pan. I'll have to remember that for future reference. Here's a pic of the different marks for the record.
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Post by cinnabar on Mar 25, 2012 16:35:10 GMT -5
A perfect example, same mark...different #'s.. These are hard to date because of this. A crossover of ID of sorts. All one can do is pick a general chunk of time where these pans were made. Not an exact science.
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