williamr1248
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Just listed my Health Craft cookware set on Ebay.
Very heavy construction for waterless cooking. Made in USA.
Very heavy construction for waterless cooking. Made in USA.
Health Craft Cookware
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davetranter
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Beautiful!!!!
The only question is WHY?????? Why sell an immaculate set like that??
If I had cookware like that, someone would have to pry them from my cold, dead fingers....
I hope they make lots of $$$ for you.
All best
Dave T
The only question is WHY?????? Why sell an immaculate set like that??
If I had cookware like that, someone would have to pry them from my cold, dead fingers....
I hope they make lots of $$$ for you.
All best
Dave T
williamr1248
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Health Craft Cookware
Dave,
The Health Craft is very heavy and very good. The problem is that I already owned a set of Guardian Service from the family. There is nothing to compare with The Guardian Service. You can bake pies,cakes on top of the range. You never have to use a double boiler and you cook all the vegetables water less. They used to sell it by coming to your home and cooking a whole meal for your guests.
I have been using mine for ( I hate to say) almost 42 years. I have had them all like the Revere Ware, Corning,T-fal, Faberware. Once you have used Guardian Service -you pitch the rest.
Even for hard sell people who have owned very expensive cookware like the Saladmaster and Health Craft-you will go back to the Guardian Service once you have used it.
Check it out sometime on the computer . Look under Guardian Service Cookware.
There is one guy who still sells the replacement lids and some new pans.
Dave,
The Health Craft is very heavy and very good. The problem is that I already owned a set of Guardian Service from the family. There is nothing to compare with The Guardian Service. You can bake pies,cakes on top of the range. You never have to use a double boiler and you cook all the vegetables water less. They used to sell it by coming to your home and cooking a whole meal for your guests.
I have been using mine for ( I hate to say) almost 42 years. I have had them all like the Revere Ware, Corning,T-fal, Faberware. Once you have used Guardian Service -you pitch the rest.
Even for hard sell people who have owned very expensive cookware like the Saladmaster and Health Craft-you will go back to the Guardian Service once you have used it.
Check it out sometime on the computer . Look under Guardian Service Cookware.
There is one guy who still sells the replacement lids and some new pans.
williamr1248
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super-sweeper
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cook a CAKE on the stove-top!?
That's unheard of! And coming to your house to make dinner, I doubt they EVER had a sale fall through!
That's unheard of! And coming to your house to make dinner, I doubt they EVER had a sale fall through!
danemodsandy
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Rob:
Thought you'd enjoy this shot - it's from the 1949 film, 'A Letter to Three Wives,' starring Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern and Kirk Douglas, among others.
In the photo, the late great Thelma Ritter is cooking with Guardian Service, on top of a 1948 GE Airliner range.
In the movie, duck is on the menu. You might be interested to know that the house in the movie, which was supposed to belong to Ann Sothern and Kirk Douglas, was intended to be state-of-the-art at the time, with lots of high-end goodies their characters were able to afford because Ann's character was a successful radio writer.
So, Guardian Service has been around as a high-end product for quite a while.
Thought you'd enjoy this shot - it's from the 1949 film, 'A Letter to Three Wives,' starring Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern and Kirk Douglas, among others.
In the photo, the late great Thelma Ritter is cooking with Guardian Service, on top of a 1948 GE Airliner range.
In the movie, duck is on the menu. You might be interested to know that the house in the movie, which was supposed to belong to Ann Sothern and Kirk Douglas, was intended to be state-of-the-art at the time, with lots of high-end goodies their characters were able to afford because Ann's character was a successful radio writer.
So, Guardian Service has been around as a high-end product for quite a while.
williamr1248
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Health Craft cookware
Alex,
Here s a shot of my kettle oven you use to bake the layer cakes or pie on top of the stove. You can see the rack that holds the layer cakes or 2 pies at one time. You can also use this for roasting a large turkey.
When you cook a standing rib roast or rump roast is comes out just like it was dry roasted in the oven. It is not steamed or mushy like it was cooked in a crock pot.
All you will have in the bottom of the pan is the drippings.
Guardian Service was featured on the "I Love Lucy show". It shows her using it on many shots in her kitchen. Also was featured in a "My Little Margie Show" in the early 1950's. The vegetables are cooked with no water and they do not burn.
You start them on low and when the cover gets warm,turn the heat to lowest setting.
Alex,
Here s a shot of my kettle oven you use to bake the layer cakes or pie on top of the stove. You can see the rack that holds the layer cakes or 2 pies at one time. You can also use this for roasting a large turkey.
When you cook a standing rib roast or rump roast is comes out just like it was dry roasted in the oven. It is not steamed or mushy like it was cooked in a crock pot.
All you will have in the bottom of the pan is the drippings.
Guardian Service was featured on the "I Love Lucy show". It shows her using it on many shots in her kitchen. Also was featured in a "My Little Margie Show" in the early 1950's. The vegetables are cooked with no water and they do not burn.
You start them on low and when the cover gets warm,turn the heat to lowest setting.
williamr1248
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Health Craft Cookware
Here is Swiss Steak. Nothing like using a pressure cooker or crock pot.
I think this was one of the meals they made when they came to your home to cook a meal. Long before my time!
You invited several friends. After dinner the salesman made the pitch for the set. It was the last cookware you ever had to buy.
It does not warp and the lids fit just as tight today as they did in the 1940's and the set was new.
Here is Swiss Steak. Nothing like using a pressure cooker or crock pot.
I think this was one of the meals they made when they came to your home to cook a meal. Long before my time!
You invited several friends. After dinner the salesman made the pitch for the set. It was the last cookware you ever had to buy.
It does not warp and the lids fit just as tight today as they did in the 1940's and the set was new.
williamr1248
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health craft cookware
The pan on the left is a double pan. One sits inside the other and you bake meat loaf, mac and cheese in the inner pan. No water needed in the outer pan. Nothing burns and you do NOT add water in the outer pan (like a double boiler). It can also be used for making custard, baked bean etc.
The pan on the right is the chicken fryer. I was making sweet and sour cabbage.
The pan on the left is a double pan. One sits inside the other and you bake meat loaf, mac and cheese in the inner pan. No water needed in the outer pan. Nothing burns and you do NOT add water in the outer pan (like a double boiler). It can also be used for making custard, baked bean etc.
The pan on the right is the chicken fryer. I was making sweet and sour cabbage.
super-sweeper
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great!
Now to get you the vintage oven to match the cook ware!
Now to get you the vintage oven to match the cook ware!
danemodsandy
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Here Is....
A 1948 GE Airliner like the one in the movie pic above - very solid and capable piece of equipment.
And no control board to blow out one day.
A 1948 GE Airliner like the one in the movie pic above - very solid and capable piece of equipment.
And no control board to blow out one day.
super-sweeper
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that stove!
LOVE IT! I'm determined to buy a $100 GE push-button model at a garage/thrift shop of sorts, VERY similar to yours. irronically the oven here just blew it's control board! I'm likely to buy it and hang on to it for that 'nasty old abandoned bomb-shelter house' down the street that I'm in love with.now, how to get it home!
LOVE IT! I'm determined to buy a $100 GE push-button model at a garage/thrift shop of sorts, VERY similar to yours. irronically the oven here just blew it's control board! I'm likely to buy it and hang on to it for that 'nasty old abandoned bomb-shelter house' down the street that I'm in love with.now, how to get it home!
danemodsandy
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Alex:
That beautiful GE Airliner is not mine - it's a photo from a Craigslist ad that I saved because I love that model.
My own range is from the '70s - a 1972 GE J 370 30-inch freestanding model. As you can see, my kitchen would not have room for a 40-inch range like the Airliner.
That beautiful GE Airliner is not mine - it's a photo from a Craigslist ad that I saved because I love that model.
My own range is from the '70s - a 1972 GE J 370 30-inch freestanding model. As you can see, my kitchen would not have room for a 40-inch range like the Airliner.
