AHI in AR Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Oven, that is. The house had been owned by an elderly bachelor. He bought it in 1987 and NEVER used the oven. Racks and instructions were still in plastic. I can't confirm it, but the cook top and vent hood looked similarly pristine as though they'd never been used. In a related story, the original built-in microwave was absolutely worn out... Click to Enlarge 45.86 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Having drawn them in with a racy subject line, a collective sigh of disappointment is heard throughout HI land as the realization that it's only an appliance sinks in........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI in AR Posted July 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Kurt... Sorry to disappoint anyone, but the post was in the interiors and appliances forum. Just exactly what were you expecting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Better check the serial number. If it was built by the big W, it might never have worked to begin with.[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Damn that Kevin with his bait and switch! [:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Kevin ... You could have a part-time job writing headlines for newspapers, but then there are getting to be fewer of them around much anymore. Darn good eye catcher for sure !! [^] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 I knew a girl named Virginia. We called her Virgin for short but not for long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allseason Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 My neighbor had a similar situation only the oven dated back to 1954. The family built the house with two kitchens. The owners lived primarily in the basement as the first floor was for looks only, plastic on the furniture, etc. Their second cousin and his wife, much younger than the owner's, bought the house a few years ago and the first floor was like a time capsule, including the the unused appliances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 Kevin's new career? Writing agent property descriptions!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Nice gest here.. This reminds me of the bachelor-pad condo I inspected once.. the owner-guy was there.. (30-something, no decor, nothing..) and as we got near the electric range, he said.. "I do a lot of 'grilling' in there..". I nod and open the oven chamber... He had been using the SHELVING as grille-surface for years... literally putting the meat on the shelves.. Grease-pit city in there.. totally ruined.. : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Nice gest here.. This reminds me of the bachelor-pad condo I inspected once.. the owner-guy was there.. (30-something, no decor, nothing..) and as we got near the electric range, he said.. "I do a lot of 'grilling' in there..". I nod and open the oven chamber... He had been using the SHELVING as grille-surface for years... literally putting the meat on the shelves.. Grease-pit city in there.. totally ruined.. : Hey, I've used that technique for years. Although, I put a large water-filled pan on a shelf below the meat to catch the drippings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 I cooked a steak where we made a small fire out of cherry, let it get down to something resembling coals, then put the meat right on the coals. Didn't even tamp the coals. Best steak I've ever had. Stuff doesn't stick to the steak and I don't know why. Maybe the extreme searing effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 I cooked a steak where we made a small fire out of cherry, let it get down to something resembling coals, then put the meat right on the coals. Didn't even tamp the coals. Best steak I've ever had. Stuff doesn't stick to the steak and I don't know why. Maybe the extreme searing effect. Did you turn it? If so, did you place the other side on fresh coals or the same ones that had cooked the first side? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Yeah, a few minutes per side. Placed it on fresh coals on the other side of the mound, same effect. A perfect medium rare. Perfect, w/the most incredible flavor from the cherry knobs. Someone told me about it, they raved and exclaimed, seemed interesting, I forgot about it for a couple years, on an impulse tried it, and have since done it whenever I've had easy access to a fire. No clean up; it's just ash when it's all done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 One I inspected where a batch lived had a Jenn-aire downdraft exhaust at the range top in a peninsula. The exhaust duct had one 90 degree turn through a base cabinet partition and stopped there, open. Not a speck of grease and no outlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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