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O & M combo?
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Post# 92896   11/8/2005 at 15:46 (6,715 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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I was reading an old Good Housekeeping and there was an article on combos. The mentioned that they wer made by six (I think) manufacturers, then listed them with the sizes.

I was surprised to see that O'Keefe & Merritt was listed. Did they actually make combos, or were they rebadged from some other company (which I suspect)? If they were rebadges, does anyone know who made 'em? D&M? ;)

veg





Post# 92901 , Reply# 1   11/8/2005 at 15:54 (6,715 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Made by O&M, I think John told me they had a 120,000 BTU gas burner which sounds like a lot, but they didn't spin - not at all. They probably needed all that heat to dry the clothes in less than a moon phase. Can you scan the article? What issue of GH?

Any good recipies? Beauty tips?


Post# 93034 , Reply# 2   11/9/2005 at 08:15 (6,714 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

A blurb about the O&M combo in one of the appliance magazines stated that it ran at a constant speed of something like 47 rpm and did not cause wrinkles or creases. It was also marketed under another obscure name, maybe One Minute, the makers of wringer washers. None of their products spun. One Minute, indeed! I guess the advantage of the machine was that if you had a furnace failure during cold weather, you could pull the vent pipe out and get a little heat if you were careful to have adequate fresh air, but that was a BTU rating like a furnace. Gosh, there would be enough waste heat that you could almost use a heat exchanger to heat at least part of the house in the winter. I wonder why there are no test reports on the machine or even articles of shock and awe. Maybe in some back issues of Butane/Propane news? No, it would take a tank per load. Maybe the Gas Manufacturers Association might have had an article about it, unless they were embarrassed by its inefficiency. I would hesitate about installing it on a wooden floor, even though vibration would not be a severe problem. A friend remembers that when they removed his aunt's BIG 33" Kenmore gas combo, the wood floor beneath the flame thrower burner was charred and that was only 37,000BTU. Maybe Fredrik up nawth had reason to wonder about house fires.

I just thought of something. With a BTU capacity like that, you could rig up a convection oven if you used something like a bread box or any unused container that would stand the heat and could be closed and ran the vent into one side, securely baffled to disperse the air flow, and then out the other to the outside. You might have to be careful of the wind velocity inside the oven cavity and would no doubt have to turn things so that one side didn't "overbake." You also would probably not need ever again to dust your baked goods with powder sugar if you dried fluffy white towels while baking. In a Consumer Reports article about some convection ovens, one was rated either last or unacceptable because the fan blew the food around. Obviously the manufacturer of that model did not deem a rotisserie necessary.


Post# 93037 , Reply# 3   11/9/2005 at 08:39 (6,714 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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Greg, I'll scan the article for you. Meant to bring the mag with me to work but forgot. There are some good combo ads, too.

There are some good recipes, but why would you need beauty tips?

Omaha Beef!

Omaha Beef!

Omaha Beef!


veg


Post# 93093 , Reply# 4   11/9/2005 at 17:29 (6,714 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        
Convection Oven Winds

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Self turning pizza rolls! If it came with a book of coupons for Jeno's Pizza rolls it might have been a hit. OreIda could get in on the fun too - no more too-crispy-bottomed tots. Hopefully there was a way to turn off the fan, cupcakes would be a mess.

Veg - I really don't need the recipies, that's for sure! If I keep going on this way, I can do a similar ad to the "Where's the Frigidaire Skinny-Mini?" but with the Bendix Duomatic!


Post# 93201 , Reply# 5   11/10/2005 at 07:40 (6,713 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
Pizza roll

Keymosabe?

Post# 93239 , Reply# 6   11/10/2005 at 13:20 (6,713 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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"I've been meaning to talk to you about that commercial..."

Post# 93249 , Reply# 7   11/10/2005 at 15:59 (6,713 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I guess now they are sold under the Totino's name, I remember them as Jeno's Pizza Rolls. The directions for cooking were a riot - "overheating will cause you to experience loss of filling" and no matter what we did or how we cooked them we experienced loss of filling...

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Post# 93290 , Reply# 8   11/10/2005 at 19:46 (6,713 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Toggle must be asleep at the switch-----I can't believe he didn't jump on that one!

Post# 93332 , Reply# 9   11/10/2005 at 21:49 (6,713 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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HRRRRUMMMPPPPFFFFF.

and I have a reputation around here?
I didnt even THINK of that one.


LOL ROFL LMAO


There will be no jumping on anything for a while. That causes overheating, which.....




Post# 93376 , Reply# 10   11/11/2005 at 06:40 (6,712 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        
Dont bother i'll say it FOR you ......

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Lawd, you just ain't right.

0 :-)

(note halo over head)


who loves ya baby?


Post# 93409 , Reply# 11   11/11/2005 at 11:02 (6,712 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        
For our Hottie, Greg

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(See thread #3937)

Greg, hon, it looks like I brought the wrong copy of Good Housekeeping to work with me, so the article on combos won't make its appearance 'til later.

In the meantime, here are a couple of scans from the copy I did bring to work. Hopefully, they'll tide you over for a while ;)

veg


Post# 93410 , Reply# 12   11/11/2005 at 11:04 (6,712 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        
Last but not least....

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The Combomatic!


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