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Skriven 2014-10-31 11:54:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: changes  was: Sugars
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-28-14  16:36 <=-

 NB>> New construction is almost always easier done than retrofit...  :)
 NB>> Most times a retrofit calls for giving up something in order to get
 NB>> the new item in, whether a ramp, an outdoor lift or an indoor
 NB>> elevator... and sometimes there's safety issues around that as well.

 RH> Even something simple as an extra railing on outside steps isn't as
 RH> easy as it looks. VA said we needed one to get the house loan so Steve
 RH> is building it. Had to figure how to fasten it in to the house, angles
 RH> for everything, etc, etc.

Yup, that can be an issue.
 
 RH>>> He put in an electric stove similar to the one you've described
 RH>>> in your house; I learned how to cook on that one.
 NB>>> They were the fancy stoves of the day...  :)
 RH>> They were, but Mom had cooked on nothing but gas so had to learn
 RH>> a whole new technique. A couple of her favorite features were the
 RH>> plug in griddle and coil in a well that could be used for deep
 RH>> frying or brought to the surface to use as an extra unit.
 NB>> I've got those... not that they are usable anymore, but they were
 NB>> originally part of the design...  :)  Having two ovens was nice,
 NB>> as long as they both worked, too....  ;)

 RH> Mom's stove only had one oven.  If all the hook ups are there, I
 RH> wouldn't mind evnetually changing out the stove in the new place
 RH> for a gas one with 2 ovens, like my grandmother used to have. I'm
 RH> not sure if one was more of a warming oven or a baking oven but the
 RH> other was full sized. 

Mine, the second one is half-height, since the well for the deep fryer
is above it... otherwise it was a full working oven/broiler... we've
scavenged the coils from it for the other oven already... ;)  So now
it's just storage.. 

 NB>>>>   So all the potato peelers
 NB>>>> are on their last legs and/or gone missing...?  ;)
 RH>>> All are on their last legs except maybe the one we bought a few
 RH>>> years ago. Dad doesn't throw out the bad ones either so you've
 RH>>> got to be careful to know what one to grab unless you want to be
 RH>>> very frustrated.
 NB>>> Sounds like you should have marked the new one in some obvious
 NB>>> way so as to be able to identify it easily...  ;)
 RH>> Probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Or, toss all of them and get a
 RH>> new one. Dad isn't cooking any more so he wouldn't really know
 RH>> at this point.
 NB>> You might get away with it now, true... :)

 RH> Probably could; I might give it a try. (G)
 
Yup, worth a try...  ;)   If he does notice, you might catch it for it,
though...  ;)

 RH>> They got some good paring knives after I was gone (some Rada cutlery,
 RH>> some others) but put them in the dishwasher, thus pretty much ruining
 RH>> the handles and dulling the blades. Can't win up there!
 NB>> There's a few brands that state that one can even wash them in the
 NB>> dishwasher without dulling the blades...  but I don't recall which at
 NB>> the moment...  Might have been something being shilled in a BJ's at
 NB>> some time or other, maybe...  :)

 RH> They got the aluminum handle Rada stuff; it really reacted badly with
 RH> the dishwasher detergent (pitting and other corroding).

Ah.

 NB>>> And the roasted one provides leftovers...  and the the smoked
 NB>>> one, future meals along with leftovers...  :)
 RH>> So we can have our choice. I think Steve prefers the roast turkey for
 RH>> sandwiches--that's about the only time he will put mayo on a sandwich.
 NB>> Choice is good.  :)   Smoked might be good in a sandwich if the bread
 NB>> was less hearty than usual...  ;)

 RH> Most of the time our bread is my home made so it is a hearty one.

True... and even Steve's homemade is also hearty... ;)

ttyl        neb

... "...and never, never invoke anything you can't banish!"

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