1930s Eureka Portable Electric Range model AHW-116

[paul]

Online Sale - something I'd heard of but had yet to see until now. I located newspaper ads for it from 1930 to 1939. The attached is from the March 31, 1930, edition of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE. Looking up both design patents using Google's search engine, I discovered that the inventor was Max L. Goldbert, who assigned it to the Electric Trading Corporation of New York. The earlier of the two patents, the design of which was less similar to the range featured in the photos below, was granted to John Fletcher for the ETC.

 

[human]

That's crazy...

And all this time, I thought the Easy Bake oven was strictly a toy. This would definitely be a step up from a hot plate for a cold water flat, but I'll bet it had a great appetite for fuses. The thing looks more like it belongs in a laboratory than in a kitchen.

 

[kirbyklekter]

Self clean?

Since all ovens were considered "self cleaning" back then, meaning "clean yourself" I wonder what people used for the task. I don't think spray oven cleaners were on the shelves yet. Besides scraping what method do you think got the job done?

 

[paul]

I use a baking soda paste, which works very well with some elbow grease and guess that would've been a popular option back in the day. I got the idea from reading an article about the many uses of baking soda. "Hints from Helouise" and other household advice columns and reading materials would have offered other ideas that are now known as hacks.