Nancy Young wrote:
> "sf" > wrote
>
> > I think ours cost more like $5 - 10.
>
> That's funny. I grew up, my father had this little
> hibachi, he'd cook outside once in a while. Six
> of us, so you had to wait your turn for a burger,
> how many could fit at one time, 4? So now
> people are throwing around numbers like $100
> for one of those? I don't think so.
>
> Obviously some of us have a different idea of
> a hibachi.

Those $100 units are twice the size and four times the weight of the
hibachis you're speaking of... not truly portable.. but no waiting your
turn for burgers, and they'll last forever. But the little $10 hibachi
you speak of is still available, only now costs more like $25... hey,
burgers cost at least four times as much as they did in the 60s... more
like 8X! I often see those old hibachis at yard sales and thrift
shops, often brand new in the box (marked like $8, and negotiable), or
hardly used for like $3 and a good chance they'll take $1. I had one of
those tiny hibachies during the 50s, they suck. For a small charcoal
grill I'd much rather the little Weber, and I'd get one but I have a
nice Weber gas grill, and I still have one of those collapsable three
legged "pie-plate" grills from my traveling days (60s), still good as
new and cost like $2 brand new... that little $2 charcoal grill cooked
many thousands of dollars worth of food. But for real emergencies I
have a 2 burner Coleman white gas stove, and single mantle lantern...
held over from when I was into camping... haven't had an emergency yet
where I used them but they look very reassuring hanging in the garage.
I figure were I to get rid of those dust collectors next day there'd be
an earthquake or some such.

Sheldon