All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

--
Best
Greg

In article . net>,
"Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:

> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
> from the gross to the sublime:
>
> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Fun pictures, Greg. Thanks. One on the fifth page brought to mind a
friend who once did the food styling for a Land O'Lakes butter photo
shoot. She had something like 20 packages of frozen peas from which to
select the *perfect* ones for the pictures. One by one,
--
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com, updated 2-11-2006, Sausage Roll Ups

"Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
> from the gross to the sublime:
>
> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought it
in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good. I've
tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no one
really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

--
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"wff_ng_7" > wrote:
> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>
> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>
> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting board
section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so the burners
are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is flush with the
remainder of the stove.

--
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On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it wff_ng_7?

> "Gregory Morrow"
> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat
>> stuff, from the gross to the sublime:
>>
>> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
>
> Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
> look in the not too distant future.
>
> Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
> unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
> it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled
> the kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for
> good. I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years,
> but no one really understood what I was talking about.
>
> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>
> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>
> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>

Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of Bewitched.
Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in their home.
It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day it was
installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished stainless
steel. Quite a nice unit!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

wff_ng_7 wrote:
> "wff_ng_7" > wrote:
>> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>>
>> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>>
>> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>
> Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
> board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
> the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
> flush with the remainder of the stove.

I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the market
I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a space-saver like that
(mine included!)

Jill

"wff_ng_7" > wrote in message
news:5EyHf.1074$Lr.848@trnddc01...
> "Gregory Morrow"
> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
>> from the gross to the sublime:
>>
>> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
>
> Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
> look in the not too distant future.
>
> Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
> unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
> it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
> kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good.
> I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no
> one really understood what I was talking about.
>
> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>
> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>
> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>
> --
> ( #wff_ng_7# at #verizon# period #net# ) ===============

Wow!! What an amazing range! I would kill for that (in working
condition...) right now!

--
Syssi

"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
28.19...
> On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it wff_ng_7?
>
>> "Gregory Morrow"
>> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>>> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat
>>> stuff, from the gross to the sublime:
>>>
>>> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
>>
>> Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
>> look in the not too distant future.
>>
>> Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
>> unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
>> it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled
>> the kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for
>> good. I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years,
>> but no one really understood what I was talking about.
>>
>> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>>
>> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>>
>> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>>
>
> Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of Bewitched.
> Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in their home.
> It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day it was
> installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished stainless
> steel. Quite a nice unit!
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright o¿o
>==========

Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy just
about killed me.

--
Syssi

On Sun 12 Feb 2006 12:40:04p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Syssi?

>
>
> "Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> 28.19...
>> On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>> wff_ng_7?
>>
>>> "Gregory Morrow"
>>> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>>>> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat
>>>> stuff, from the gross to the sublime:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
>>>
>>> Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads
>>> will look in the not too distant future.
>>>
>>> Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
>>> unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they
>>> bought it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents
>>> remodeled the kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was
>>> gone for good. I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over
>>> the years, but no one really understood what I was talking about.
>>>
>>> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>>>
>>> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>>>
>>> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>>>
>>
>> Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of
>> Bewitched. Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in
>> their home. It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day
>> it was installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished
>> stainless steel. Quite a nice unit!
>>
>> --
>> Wayne Boatwright o¿o
>>==========
>
> Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
> neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy
> just about killed me.

Uh, yeah, I think you're right about Bewitched. My friends was definitely
like this one. Oven envy? Envy goes right out the window when I think of
manually cleaning an oven. <g>

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

"Syssi" > wrote:
> Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
> neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy just
> about killed me.

You are indeed correct. I was intrigued so I went looking on the net for
pictures of the studio set for Bewitched. I found some good pictures and the
stove in Bewitched is not the Tappan one from the advertisements that I
mentioned being the exact same as my parents' stove. It is similar though.
It is one with lift up oven doors rather than swing open oven doors. Also,
the burner configuration is different. On my parents' stove, the four
burners were all in a straight row, with a cutting board in front. The
burners are completely concealed when the section is pushed in and the
cutting board remains exposed. The Bewitched stove has the two end burners
to the back, and the two center burners toward the front, with no cutting
board.

Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Funny how I watched every episode of Bewitched when I was a kid, but never
remembered the stove. I guess I wasn't interested in such things. On the
other hand, I remember my parents' stove very well, even though I only saw
it a few times while visiting. My mother, who actually used it daily, has no
memory of its configuration at this point.

I get the feeling things such as kitchen stoves were a lot more varied 40-50
years ago then they are now, with a lot of interesting features. Now even
with the professional style stoves, the variation isn't as great as it once
was. Needless to say, there are dramatically fewer stove manufacturers today
than there were 50 years ago, in spite of a lot of the brand names still
being around for marketing reasons.

--
( #wff_ng_7# at #verizon# period #net# )

jmcquown wrote:

> wff_ng_7 wrote:
> > "wff_ng_7" > wrote:
> >> A picture is worth a thousand words:
> >>
> >> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
> >>
> >> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
> >
> > Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
> > board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
> > the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
> > flush with the remainder of the stove.
>
> I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the market
> I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a space-saver like that
> (mine included!)


Yup, it's a very neat design Jill...I could use it my own kitchen.

It's interesting that while many other consumer goods have radically
changed in the last 50 years, kitchen appliances are still pretty
"mundane", e.g. the basic ones at least are the same kinds of white
boxes that they always have been. There have been technological
improvements (self - defrost fridges, microwaves, much better energry
effeciency...) but someone transported from 1955 to the Magical Space
Age Future 'o 2005 would I think be fairly underwhelmed by modern
kitchen appliances...

--
Best
Greg

Syssi wrote:

> "wff_ng_7" > wrote in message
> news:5EyHf.1074$Lr.848@trnddc01...
> > "Gregory Morrow"
> > <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
> >> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
> >> from the gross to the sublime:
> >>
> >> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
> >
> > Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
> > look in the not too distant future.
> >
> > Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
> > unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
> > it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
> > kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good.
> > I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no
> > one really understood what I was talking about.
> >
> > A picture is worth a thousand words:
> >
> > http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
> >
> > Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
> >
> > --
> > ( #wff_ng_7# at #verizon# period #net# ) ===============
>
> Wow!! What an amazing range! I would kill for that (in working
> condition...) right now!


Ebay is your friend :-)

--
Best
Greg

On 12 Feb 2006 15:48:03 -0800, Gregory Morrow wrote:

>
> jmcquown wrote:
>
> > wff_ng_7 wrote:
> > > "wff_ng_7" > wrote:
> > >> A picture is worth a thousand words:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
> > >>
> > >> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
> > >
> > > Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
> > > board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
> > > the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
> > > flush with the remainder of the stove.
> >
> > I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the market
> > I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a space-saver like that
> > (mine included!)
>
>
> Yup, it's a very neat design Jill...I could use it my own kitchen.
>
I don't need a space saver, but I'd love one of those in my kitchen
too.... in fact one apartment my family rented around '67 had one and
I loved it then. The design was perfect for us because my brother was
a toddler at the time, so we didn't worry about hot coils. Mom loved
the two ovens because she could do a turkey in the big one and rolls
in the small one. It was very convenient!
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

wff_ng_7 wrote:

> Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
> Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>
I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke one
piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts, but
they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
use those coffee pots?
Goomba

On Sun 12 Feb 2006 08:24:55p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Goomba38?

> wff_ng_7 wrote:
>
>> Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
>> Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>>
> I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
> glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke one
> piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts, but
> they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
> diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
> use those coffee pots?
> Goomba
>

Was this a Pyrex percolator or a vacuum pot? I collect the glass vacuum pots
and several made by Pyrex. I often use them to brew coffee.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Was this a Pyrex percolator or a vacuum pot? I collect the glass vacuum pots
> and several made by Pyrex. I often use them to brew coffee.
>
Yup, the Pyrex percolator that worked on the stove, made entirely from
glass. Does it make good coffee??
Goomba

On Sun 12 Feb 2006 08:58:38p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Goomba38?

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> Was this a Pyrex percolator or a vacuum pot? I collect the glass
>> vacuum pots and several made by Pyrex. I often use them to brew
>> coffee.
>>
> Yup, the Pyrex percolator that worked on the stove, made entirely from
> glass. Does it make good coffee??
> Goomba

Yes, it does. I have two of the percolators, both are Pyrex, one is 4-cup,
the other 4-6 cup. I have to say that I am partial to coffee from the vacuum
pots, however.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:24:55 -0500, Goomba38 wrote:

> wff_ng_7 wrote:
>
> > Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
> > Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
> >
> I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
> glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke one
> piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts, but
> they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
> diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
> use those coffee pots?

If I look at the back of a deep cabinet, I might even find one. I
didn't use it for coffee though, I used it as a tea kettle.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

Goomba38 wrote:

> wff_ng_7 wrote:
>
>> Bewitched Kitchen and Stove:
>> http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
>> Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>>
> I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
> glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke
> one piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts,
> but they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
> diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
> use those coffee pots?
> Goomba

Horrible bloody things, though we thought they were terrific at the
time. They stewed the coffee, but. The plunger pot was a godsend - we've
still got one of those.

Christine

wff_ng_7 wrote:

> I get the feeling things such as kitchen stoves were a lot more varied 40-50
> years ago then they are now, with a lot of interesting features. Now even
> with the professional style stoves, the variation isn't as great as it once
> was. Needless to say, there are dramatically fewer stove manufacturers today
> than there were 50 years ago, in spite of a lot of the brand names still
> being around for marketing reasons.


IMO the last big stylistic advance in kitchen appliances was
Frigidaire's "Sheer Line" (squared corner) styling of the late 50's,
nothing much has changed since. June Cleaver's big "Sheer Look"
fridge c. 1960 would be perfectly at home in today's kitchens...

Frigidaire was a division of General Motors and GM back in the 50's was
in the forefront of future "prognostications". GM had wild show cars
with gas turbine engines, plexiglass tops, and they predicted that cars
would be driven automatically by radar on superhighways. For years in
the 50's the GM "Motorama" shows brought these dreams to the masses,
and these dreams included Jetson - style kitchens...

GM didn't *quite* put tailfins on appliances, but it surely wasn't for
want of trying ;-)

Here is a bunch of fun stuff I found about "future" kitchens:


I like this kitchen:

Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, 1957

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor021.htm

---------------------------


You can view a Frigidaire 1957 promotional film he

http://www.archive.org/details/Frigidai1957

Frigidaire Finale 1957

"The Sheer Look" was Frigidaire's tagline for its 1957 line of
refrigerators, ranges and washer-dryers, and refers to their
straight-line, square-cornered, "flat" styling, which was an innovation
at a time when major appliances were all rounded and bulgy-looking.
They were the first of their kind, and spelled the end of the
traditional blimp-like 1950s refrigerator. The ad campaign featured
models in evening gowns and elbow-length gloves, holding their arms in
an odd position so that their fingertips met at right angles
(symbolizing "sheer" square corners). An eBay search for Sheer Look
will turn up examples of these. When I was a kid we had a 1957 Sheer
Look refrigerator -- a white Frigidaire Imperial with turquoise
interior.

"A dancing couple caress appliances instead of each other. A woman in a
party dress leads a man in a tails in an energetic dance around a group
of stoves, washer-dryers and refrigerators. Instead of being set in a
house, the film takes place on an obvious stage set. Only in the
fifties were household appliances seen as such objects of glamour as
they are here. The appliances carry a hint of intrigue, particularly
the black refrigerator which the woman climbs up on in a moment of
triumph. Maybe the film's message to women consumers was that once
their kitchens were stocked with "Sheer Look" appliances, it would
free them up for dalliances with dapper, tuxedo-wearing men who are not
their husbands. The woman in this film leads a life very different from
the women who would have been the audience for this film. She has a lot
of new appliances without actually having to be in a kitchen. She wears
a pretty, impractical dress. She has an attentive man (who's also a
great dancer) who follows her around in a state of devotion. She even
gets to wear a tiara. Given how drab most womens' lives were then, this
film encapsulates their longings for recognition and escape. But the
last scene in the film, where we see a woman holding her arms in a
square shape that echoes the "Sheer Look" shape of the appliances,
puts the woman back in her lowly place. The woman and the object sold
are one and the same."

------------------------------


More comment on the _Frigidaire Finale_ film:

http://gopher.well.com:70/0/Art/Expe.../rainbow.yours

FRIGIDAIRE FINALE

Jam Handy Organization for Frigidaire Division of General
Motors, 1957. 4 min., faded Eastmancolor, 16m
This film fragment is a surviving
segment of the gala
industrial show mounted to roll out the 1957 Frigidaire
kitchen appliance line to retail dealers at the national
sales meeting.
Futuramas, Motoramas and Kitchens of Tomorrow, like many
"utopian" ideas, often seem to recall the past rather than
predict the future. The utopia of the late thirties linked
the advent of a better world to the success of cars,
refrigerators or ball bearings. These visions were often
invoked when few people could actually afford to buy
expensive products, and it seemed safer to speak of the
future than the present. Wars and the attendant shortages of
materials and goods intervened, temporarily shifting
futuristic schemes back into the marginal realm of science
fiction.
But in the second half of the Fifties, advertisers once
again felt confident to invoke the future, and filled the
mass media with utopias, fantasies and dreams. Conservative
corporations proposed new, futuristic and sometimes fanciful
needs to a society abandoning dirty, old-fashioned cities
for the new suburbia. Images of national mobilization, duty
and scarcity disappeared from advertising in favor of images
of gracious living, seductive housewives and, always, a
choice of several colors.
Frigidaire, a division of General Motors, marketed its
appliance lines just like automobiles. All that had become
associated with automotive marketing -- the annual model
change, high-pressure pitches, and especially planned
obsolescence -- was applied to selling the home and its
contents. New models were introduced with great fanfare
every year. Three distinct product lines -- the Imperial, the
Deluxe and the Super Deluxe -- were designed for different
levels of purchasing power. Buyers were encouraged to trade
up to top-of-the-line models, loaded with options. Oddly,
these spanking new washers, dryers, ranges and refrigerators
seemed almost ornamental in their detail. Unlike ads just a
few years earlier, these glamorous late Fifties
representations shunned any mention of time-saving,
convenience or even housework. Smiling women in formal
dresses danced their way through magazine pages and TV
spots, untroubled by the actual operation of their "sheer
look" appliances."


More vintage appliance videos:
http://automaticwasher.org/vintage_video.htm

-----------------------


This is a fun site with lots of "future" food and kitchen stuff:

http://www.davidszondy.com/future/Li...encomputer.htm

"This isn't a food making machine, but it is an example of pure
technical daftness. We present the Honeywell Kitchen Computer of 1969.
For only $10,000.00 you too could have a machine in your kitchen that
can store recipes, tell you which dishes you can make with the
ingredients on hand, and (all together now!) balance your cheque book.
Mind you, it had no user interface except for a small row of buttons
on the front, you had to take a fortnight's course on how to use it,
and it cost as much as a house, but it's progress. And who can argue
with that?"

--------------------


http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/...t-kitchen.html

Today's "Kitchen of Tomorrow"

The first in a series of visionary tales inspired by the great
corporate marketing films of the 1950s and 1960s.

From: Issue 102 | January 2006 | Page 39 By: Paul Lukas

"In the 1956 film _Design for Dreaming_ -- a promotional trailer
produced by Frigidaire--a housewife in the "kitchen of tomorrow" feeds
a recipe card into a slot, triggering a series of appliances that
automatically bake a birthday cake complete with lit candles. Other
films of the era promised that future kitchens would include . . . a
transparent cylindrical refrigerator! A robot butler! And an oven that
cooks a roast in minutes "by electronics."

Fifty years later, none of that has materialized; really great espresso
machines represent the current apex of home gastronomy. But the vision
of a high-tech kitchen remains tantalizing. "Historically, technology
has entered the home through the kitchen," says Ted Selker, an
associate professor at MIT. who runs a lab dedicated to exploring what
tomorrow's kitchen may actually look like.

The 1950s version of the future focused primarily on labor-saving
gadgetry with a "gee whiz!" factor. Selker's lab has its share of this:
dishes that can be custom-stamped from acrylic disks, a "smart sink"
that recognizes what you put in it and adjusts the water temperature
accordingly. But he's more interested in improving the quality of how
we eat and interact. "Everyone talks about fresh, fresh, fresh," he
says. "But what is fresh food? The freshest food is alive." So his
kitchen lab includes a hydroponic cupboard with an ultrasonic
evaporator, which allows leafy vegetables and herbs to thrive like cut
flowers.

"And why should a refrigerator just be a cold place?" Selker asks.
"Eggs don't need to be refrigerated; butter, if you use it soon enough,
doesn't need to be refrigerated.

So why not have a warm compartment, maybe with a nitrogen atmosphere,
so you don't worry about oxidation? What if we want apples to ripen?
Throw some carbon dioxide in there."

Kitchen research is also progressing at Microsoft, where Jonathan Cluts
oversees a team that projects what might be brought to market in the
next 5 to 10 years. "What I try to focus on," he says, "is
demonstrating what will be possible and then gauging people's
reactions. So it's great when we develop something and people say,
'Yeah, I'd love to have that.' But it's also useful when someone says,
'No, don't make that.' "

Among the things people seem to like: recipes projected directly onto
countertops (no need to fuss with index cards or cookbooks), an oven
that can be remotely programmed from a cell phone, and a microwave that
reads a product's bar code and knows how long to cook it for. And
that's just the start: "We basically assume that anything in your house
that has power can be part of your home network," says Cluts.

But even in this vision of the future, the feeling of home is more
important than bells and whistles. "The kitchen is the social nerve
center for the family," says Cluts. "So we do a lot of stuff involving
scheduling, using touch-screen displays, and putting computer monitors
in the kitchen so kids can do their homework there and the whole family
can stay together." So ultimately, this kitchen of tomorrow may be more
about preserving the domestic values of yesterday".

</>

Gregory Morrow wrote:

> Here is a bunch of fun stuff I found about "future" kitchens:
>
>
> I like this kitchen:
>
> Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, 1957
>
> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor021.htm
>
Hey!! Its Rachel Ray's "magic cupboard" in the back there! Cool
picture, thanks
Goomba

"Goomba38" > wrote in message
. ..
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
>> Here is a bunch of fun stuff I found about "future" kitchens:
>>
>>
>> I like this kitchen:
>>
>> Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, 1957
>>
>> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor021.htm
>>
> Hey!! Its Rachel Ray's "magic cupboard" in the back there! Cool picture,
> thanks
> Goomba

In the background where you mention the 'magic cupboard, the white wall
cabinets in the background. We bought a house in California that had these
looks-like-cabinets, but it was a hanging refrigerator. One door side was
the refrigerator (right side) and the other door was the freezer.
Underneath it were cabinets just as you see in the picture. We bought the
house in 1975 and wanted to preserve the refrigerator. We had to laugh when
the repair man came and said, "I've already condemned this refrigerator 3
times." We used it a few more years before we got another refrigerator. But
it was a conversation-al piece. I liked it -- no bending over and just the
right height for me -- 5'2".
Dee Dee

On Mon 13 Feb 2006 08:20:32p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Michael
"Dog3" Lonergan?

> Goomba38 > hitched up their panties and posted
> :
>
>> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a bunch of fun stuff I found about "future" kitchens:
>>>
>>>
>>> I like this kitchen:
>>>
>>> Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, 1957
>>>
>>> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor021.htm
>>>
>> Hey!! Its Rachel Ray's "magic cupboard" in the back there! Cool
>> picture, thanks
>> Goomba
>>
>
> Great Pic!!! I would kill for that kitchen.
>
> Michael
>

Who would you kill? I've got a list!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

Gregory Morrow wrote:

> IMO the last big stylistic advance in kitchen appliances was
> Frigidaire's "Sheer Line" (squared corner) styling of the late 50's,
> nothing much has changed since. June Cleaver's big "Sheer Look"
> fridge c. 1960 would be perfectly at home in today's kitchens...

[...]

Terrific post.

Pastorio

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:44:18 GMT, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:

> We have this nasty pot. It's probably 4 quarts with all kinds of gadgets
> that fit on the top. I'm not sure what it actually was. It was not a
> pressure cooker but had several (I think 3) things on top. I'm pitching
> the gadgets and keeping the pot. I'll make soup

Do you have a digital camera? Take a picture of it! I'm sure more
people than I would love to see this nightmare.

LOL
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:54:31 +1100, Old Mother Ashby wrote:

> Goomba38 wrote:
>
> > wff_ng_7 wrote:
> >
> >> Bewitched Kitchen and Stove:
> >> http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
> >> Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
> >>
> > I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
> > glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke
> > one piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts,
> > but they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
> > diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
> > use those coffee pots?
> > Goomba
>
> Horrible bloody things, though we thought they were terrific at the
> time. They stewed the coffee, but. The plunger pot was a godsend - we've
> still got one of those.
>
It has a plunger? You're talking about a "french press'? They make
decent coffee if you use the correct method. You pour boiling water
over the grounds, let them steep for a while and then "plunge" to stop
the brewing when the coffee is as rich as you wish.

--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

sf wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:54:31 +1100, Old Mother Ashby wrote:
>
>
>
>> Goomba38 wrote:
>>
>> > wff_ng_7 wrote:
>> >
>> >> Bewitched Kitchen and Stove:
>> >> http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
>> >> Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>> >>
>> > I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
>> > glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke
>> > one piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts,
>> > but they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
>> > diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
>> > use those coffee pots?
>> > Goomba
>>
>> Horrible bloody things, though we thought they were terrific at the
>> time. They stewed the coffee, but. The plunger pot was a godsend - we've
>> still got one of those.
>>
>>
>>
>It has a plunger? You're talking about a "french press'? They make
>decent coffee if you use the correct method. You pour boiling water
>over the grounds, let them steep for a while and then "plunge" to stop
>the brewing when the coffee is as rich as you wish.
>
>
>
That's it. One of these days I'm going to come across something that
Americans don't have a different name for! :-)

Christine

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article . net>,
> "Gregory Morrow"
> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>
> > All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
> > from the gross to the sublime:
> >
> > http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
>
> Fun pictures, Greg. Thanks. One on the fifth page brought to mind a
> friend who once did the food styling for a Land O'Lakes butter photo
> shoot. She had something like 20 packages of frozen peas from which to
> select the *perfect* ones for the pictures. One by one,


IIRC peas were one of the first and most popular vegetables to be
available frozen; they also had a certain photogenic elan which lent
themselves to food advertising during this era...and natcherly they
were ALWAYS shown with a big pat of yellow butter.

--
Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> wff_ng_7 wrote:
>>> "wff_ng_7" > wrote:
>>>> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>>>>
>>>> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>>>
>>> Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
>>> board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
>>> the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
>>> flush with the remainder of the stove.
>>
>> I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the
>> market I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a
>> space-saver like that (mine included!)
>
>
> Yup, it's a very neat design Jill...I could use it my own kitchen.
>
> It's interesting that while many other consumer goods have radically
> changed in the last 50 years, kitchen appliances are still pretty
> "mundane", e.g. the basic ones at least are the same kinds of white
> boxes that they always have been. There have been technological
> improvements (self - defrost fridges, microwaves, much better energry
> effeciency...) but someone transported from 1955 to the Magical Space
> Age Future 'o 2005 would I think be fairly underwhelmed by modern
> kitchen appliances...

If anything, the trend has been bigger stoves with more burners and grill
tops and separate built-in ovens which take up much more space. My grandma
Mc's kitchen was smaller than mine is and mine is small! She had room for a
sink, a oven/stove and a small refrigerator. Very little counter-space.
Cupboards over the sink and stove. She did have a small table and a couple
of chairs. Somehow she made due. The rest of the house was very, very
roomy but the kitchen was like an office cubicle. She'd probably cringe if
she saw some of the kitchen layouts these days with cooking islands with
built-in stovetops, hanging pot racks, double wall ovens *and* room for
eating in the kitchen! She could have used a stove like this one.

Jill

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:

> sf > hitched up their panties and posted
> :
>
> > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:44:18 GMT, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> >
> >> We have this nasty pot. It's probably 4 quarts with all kinds of
> >> gadgets that fit on the top. I'm not sure what it actually was. It
> >> was not a pressure cooker but had several (I think 3) things on top.
> >> I'm pitching the gadgets and keeping the pot. I'll make soup
> >
> > Do you have a digital camera? Take a picture of it! I'm sure more
> > people than I would love to see this nightmare.
> >
> > LOL
>
> No, I have lost my last digital. I think I buried it last year while
> gardening. I have not bought another one. I think the last pic I took was
> of a gladiola which I sent to Margaret Suran. Then I lost the camera. I
> think this was my 4th camera lost in my perpetual digging.


This is why I've put off getting a digital, they are just too damn
expensive to lose; fragile too...I am still in the disposable camera
age.


> The pot is not really a nightmare but I'm thinking it is from the 60s. I'm
> not really sure it's not some kind of steamer basket thingy on top or what.
> It has 3 separate divisions, like you would put 3 foods in. I suppose you
> would have to boil water underneath them. We threw out the steamer thing
> and kept the pot. It's a nice pot. No name on it but I'm thinking it's
> stainless steel.


Ask Barb Schaller if it's some kind of pressure canning kettle...

--
Best
Greg