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Thread Number: 71412
/ Tag: Small Appliances
Knapp Monarch Redi-Baker |
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| Post# 944938 6/23/2017 at 22:19 (2,492 days old) by Michaelman2 (Lauderdale by the Sea, FL) | ||
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Decided to make some homemade biscuits tonight. Did not want to heat up the large oven and decided to get my grandmother's small oven out. Many batches of perfect biscuits were prepared using this little workhorse.
Hans, I bet a dollar you have one of these?
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Post# 944955 , Reply# 1 6/24/2017 at 00:43 (2,492 days old) by tolivac  (greenville nc) |
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What a neat little machine!!Never seen one of these. | ||
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Post# 945022 , Reply# 4 6/24/2017 at 12:34 (2,491 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 945029 , Reply# 5 6/24/2017 at 13:10 (2,491 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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Hey, that's pretty cool. Looks a lot more solid than a Toast-r-Oven. | ||
| Post# 945060 , Reply# 6 6/24/2017 at 15:48 (2,491 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Yep I have one and the larger Redi Oven, these bake biscuits as good as any oven. | ||
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Post# 977320 , Reply# 8 1/7/2018 at 13:25 (2,294 days old) by spacepig (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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We found one of these at a thrift/antique store yesterday. It's cute and it does work. Haven't dried baking anything in there yet as it still needs a good cleaning.
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Post# 977329 , Reply# 10 1/7/2018 at 14:37 (2,294 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Same issue with my vintage Westbend "Ovenette"
Have said for ages the thing and similar portable ovens would never pass muster today. Far to many safety hazards, especially for burns.
With the Ovenette once it comes to temp the only "cool" bits are the knob and feet. Everything else including the dial are far to hot for touching without a pot holder or something. | ||
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Post# 977356 , Reply# 11 1/7/2018 at 19:01 (2,294 days old) by spacepig (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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Thank you Mike and Launderess for the comments. I'm anxious to try it out for curiosity's sake. I appreciate the reminder about how hot these things can get, so I'll be sure to have a potholder or oven mitt handy.
Mine came with one small tray and one large tray. Does anyone know if there was another smaller tray, or was it just the two? | ||
| Post# 977417 , Reply# 13 1/8/2018 at 00:00 (2,294 days old) by Michaelman2 (Lauderdale by the Sea, FL) | ||
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Small Video on the larger Redi Oven Jeannine...could not edit my posting above, however this is a small commercial showing the Redi Oven. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Michaelman2's LINK | ||
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Post# 977421 , Reply# 14 1/8/2018 at 00:22 (2,294 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Keep in mind you may have to adjust temp and time
For whatever you are baking, roasting, cooking...
Unlike large ovens you aren't heating up much air with these units. Find cakes are done a bit faster than when using regular oven, and often may have to lower the temp just a bit to prevent over browning. To keep energy use down have a huge piece of "oven insulation" (can't recall where I bought it from) to keep some of that radiant heat from escaping. Originally bought the stuff to use with my Maxim countertop convection oven that has NO insulation what so ever. But works well enough with the Ovenette as well. | ||
| Post# 977453 , Reply# 15 1/8/2018 at 11:12 (2,293 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
glad to know these work well I enjoy looking at vintage small appliances on ebay and always see several of these Redi Ovens for sale, It figures if they sold a lot of them then they must do a good job. Maybe I'll get one. I don't like heating up a big oven for something small for a meatloaf There's a space under the sink in the guest bathroom to keep it. The kitchen filled up long ago. | ||
| Post# 977473 , Reply# 17 1/8/2018 at 14:23 (2,293 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
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Mike... You last comment is an excellent one.
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Post# 977502 , Reply# 18 1/8/2018 at 17:21 (2,293 days old) by spacepig (Floridas Emerald Coast) |
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Thank you all for the helpful information.
Mike--in all the pictures I could find, I never saw a smaller square pan, so it's probably correct that it came from something else. Also, thanks for the link to the video, it was fun to watch. Launderess and Mike--those are great ideas about adding some insulation. Better to be safe than sorry. While I think both my husband and I have common sense, we are both a bit klutzy, so that extra protection may help prevent some inadvertent burns! Joe--will try and cook something in it this weekend and give a report on the results. The person we brought it from was the original owner, and he said he and his wife used it often, and that it cooked a mean cornbread. He was prior military, and he and his wife collected stuff from their travels all over the world. Upon retirement, they realized they had way too much stuff, so decided to empty their storage units and open a thrift/antique store to help get rid of some of it. I bought a vintage beehive hair dryer from them also (turquoise of course). | ||
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