" I might be crazy, because I collect things like electric skillets." Lol. Not by my definition. Love the fact you got your dream display place. I have a similar wish for my collections too.

My wife and I received a Westbend electric skillet as a wedding gift nearly 27 years ago. I used it for everything for many years. Somewhere along the line it got packed away and fell out of use. Recently my daughter found it and asked if she could take it. Now I wish I could get it back!! I certainly loved that old Westbend.

The Corning models remind me of the West Bend "Lazy Day" slow cooker I grew up with as our "crock pot." A heated base with removable enameled steel vessel with handles and lid that you can even use on the stovetop. It was handed down to me and I loved it so much I found and bought a second one!

Brilliant collection. Love the Westinghouse. You can be Sure if it's a Westinghouse!

I have a Sunbeam model FP-12B electric skillet that looks identical to the one you said would fit 4 grilled cheese sandwiches in. Mine has a chrome temp. dial with a non vented aluminum lid. The story behind it is somewhere around 1959 or 1960 my mother re-married and received this as a wedding gift from Frank and Geraldine Carter ( which were our next door neighbors ). I was 3 or 4 years old at the time ( I have just turned 67 ) and mother went on to have 3 more children. Many, many, many meals were cooked in this skillet. Hamburger patties with grilled onions, fried chicken, country fried steak with gravy, pork chops etc. She used this skillet at least 3 times per week when we were growing up. Unfortunately we lost mother in 2014 and my siblings didn't want her old vintage revere ware copper bottom cook ware with lids and the electric skillet etc. so I kept all of it and not only is all of it my favorite it brings me to a happy place with floods of good memories of my childhood. Just 2 days ago my wife cooked pork chops, potatoes and onions in it and it was delicious. My wife commented on how evenly it heats as opposed to our newer elec. skillet that has hot spots. Also the RevereWare copper bottom pots are my favorite pots and pans as well but that's for another day. You just can't buy stuff like this anymore. I enjoyed your video!

I really enjoy your videos and your sister behind the camera! Brother and sister working and having fun together! I love the vintage items you display, your collections, and knowledge of what you have. I was born in 1957. I remember my grandmothers, mother, aunts, and I using many of the things you show in your videos. Fond memories, the good old days! Brenda in Arizona

Oh gosh do you have a video on his electric percolator collection? I’m a collector of them myself and would be thrilled to watch a whole video on his collection, please let me know, I’d love to see it as I saw he also has quite a collection of those! ☺️

I love my electric skillets. So much better than using the stove on so many recipes. Thank you and stay well

Love those electric skillets. Thankyou 😊

I have a Queen Anne stainless steel electric frypan with the liquid core. Had it for years. They’re amazing. Salesmen used to go door to door in the 1960’s. Am still using it!

My grandmother bought the first Sunbeam model in the early 1950s. We still use it! You were correct, it fits four grilled cheese sandwiches perfectly! I opted for the round GE model in my signature turquoise. It works like a dream too!

My Mom was a wonderful cook and cooked up a storm in her Cornflower Corning ware electric skillet (with the white base and black handled bottom) and many of her Corning ware items- including the large coffee percolator. I have them now 😍! I loved coming home to see the Electric skillet cooking away on the counter and I would run over to look thru the glass cover to see what delights awaited us! (As a newlywed she had almost the complete set of Guardian Service)

Outstanding!!! My Husband & I cooked with these for the first 10years of marriage! We loved it!

I'm so happy that you showed the Corning pieces. I have both of them, and had not seen any information about them. I bought them to cook outside with my mom when I would take her on a picnic from her nursing home. Now the earlier one sits on my vintage late 40's Frigidaire stove. These are all so useful, and I have a few others, Sunbeam, Farberware, and one of those oil filled. I love them all, and admire your collection so much!!

I love the way you have your skillets, stoves and EVERYTHING displayed. I love my Salad master cookware…all of it. Can you tell I love to cook!!!

I liked the stainless ones and I loved seeing the Corning ones. I didn't know they had them!! But, you do have an awesome collection!! loved seeing them all!! Thanks Kevin! Thanks Mary!!. Hope Ralph is ok!!

Men of MANY talents 💗 Glad to see you are doing well. We're still on a stay at home order. Thank goodness for KZfaq. Blessings to you both

Best thing ever for frying chicken and soft crabs. Trying to fry on a glass top stove the heat is hard to keep even. My husband won’t let me go “backwards” & get an old fashioned stove with real burners, even they are better than glass tops. I would go soft crabbing with my grandmother in the morning & she would fry them for supper that night in her electric frying pan. Nothing better!

I have a Lifetime brand stainless steel electric skillet with oil-filled bottom. Still working like new 36 years later. The only thing that has been changed is the thermostat a couple of years ago. I really love your vintage appliances!

This the coolest channel I have ever found. Please keep up the good work.

Thank you so much for sharing your collection with the world-my grandmother has a GE model almost identical to the one you showed at 7:33. It was a wedding present over 60 years ago and still makes the perfect grilled cheese! I just got my very own electric skillet, a Toastess model-both were made in Canada.

I have one of those extra large Presto skillets…..when I was cooking for 6 or 7 children, that large electric skillet was fantastic!

Mom had a poppy red GE electric frypan and a Sears Kenmore frypan with a domed lid. She made pork tenderloin and gravy in that one many times. Granny had the smaller Sunbeam with the handle and chrome knob and I have it now, but have never used it. Thanks for showing the Corning Ware units. Not very popular, I would assume. Never seen one until now. Thanks for sharing all your electric skillets!

This is so cool....I love vintage everything!!!!!

Wow what a nice collection. The uncoated Sunbeams are my favorite and I have three of them, they are fantastic as you say for cooking outdoors and keeping your kitchen clean and odor free. Please do not use any of the early Teflon coated ones; that early Teflon contains PFOA and PFOS both of which have cancer risk factors. The chemical itself leaches into the hot cooking foods and can also be ingested by the coating flaking off. I would personally discard them.

Hi Kevin, I have been watching some of your videos and I enjoy them. I believe that I must be around your age as I remember many of the small electrics that you collect. The videos take me back to the 60s and 70s when items like an electric frypan or blender were marketed with the same level of enthusiasm as a new iPhone might be today. With COVID I have been cooking a lot more at home and appreciating gadgets like my stand mixer from the early 90s, or my electric wok from the mid-70s. These were not thrift store purchases, I bought them new-and they still work! I think it is great that you have a love for industrial design. I think it is an art form unto itself. I'm glad someone is preserving these products-otherwise they would be lost to landfills. Do you actually open your shop to the public, or it is mostly a place to hold your collections?

I love the lid that attached to the side.

Kevin. I love seeing these appliances. I inherited a square Sunbeam, just like the one you showed, from my beloved Grandmother. She made the most amazing fried chicken, using Kelliogg's cornflake crumb recipe, but fried instead of baked. It finally bit the dust and I bought one of the stainless Farberware skillets. I love it because you can get a whole chicken in it. As always, thanks for sharing your collection, that brings back so many wonderful memories. Stay safe, stay mighty!

Hi Kevin & Mar. Thank you for another wonderful video. Brought back some good memories. My mother-in-law worked for Sunbeam so all of our small kitchen appliances were from Sunbeam. I like how you share a little history on each brand. Take care.

Oh wow! I love the Corey Party Chef cooker! Very nice! I'll have to have me one of those!

These are not only nostalgic, but cook really well.

Relish tray makes my table complete. I am always checking out the thrift stores for relish trays and butter dishes. Have to be very selective because like you said, there are a lot of relish trays on the secondary market. Fun to find the unusual ones. Really like the deviled egg combo style dish. Will be looking for one.

Loved this so much

I had the sunbeam electric skillet.Those skillet I cooked large breakfast and dinners with.

Love Love Love this episode, Kevin! I've seen many of these (and own a few) but many I have not. The Corning (Love the trefoil design) and GE's were ones that I have not seen but I own a Westinghouse, Kenmore (it was my grandmother's), Farberware, West Bend (the deeper version with the wooden handles), and a Sunbeam. Love them all! I'd like to have a Vollrath but they're hard to find. I have my grandmother's Vollrath cookware and love it. Heavy stainless steel. Looking forward to seeing more of the Calvacade collection! Best to you! Adam.

Love these. I have the sunbeam from the 60’s with a broiler attachment in the cover and a rack for the bottom. 😊

I love this channel!!!! Thank you sooo much!!

What a joy! I appreciate the history that you shared with all of these wonderful American-made electric skillets. Its amazing to think that so many of these vintage appliances are still working to this day. Thank you so much for the video. I checked out your video list and subscribed. I saw so many interesting titles in your collection. Looking forward to watching them. Take care and God bless.

Functional & Beautiful!

Amazing collections...love all your videos sharing these kitchen appliances with us. I assume you have an old cookbook collection as well. That would fun to see that collection in another video.

My dad was a Sunbeam technician in in Australia in the 60s and 70s when everything was serviceable , he could repair and tune anything Sunbeam, I have numerous iappliances Sunbeam nowadays but none Teflon, thanks for the great walk down memory lane how we used to be.

My mom adored her electric skillet! Hers had a handle she could hold on to. Happy times. Ty!

Do a segment on your percolator collection!

God Bless you both. Stay safe !!!!!! I'm gonna go look'n for one of those dang things when it gets safe to do so. Thanks!

I live your collections. I'm envious

Love this channel. Wonderful sm appliances. I just bought an older Nesco turkey roaster. Love older/ vintage items. Ty for posting.

Thank you for the upload. I love my Sunbeam. My favorite is the 7-378 😊.

Love your content!

Our electric skillet, can't remember the brand - but in the 60s & did have a Teflon coating on it, went on vacation with us as well as our 12 cup Faberware electric coffee pot. Biy help in motel kitchens where kitchen tools were iffy.

I looked up Croswell MI, looks like the perfect place to grow-up. Maybe you could take us on a walking tour and talk about the town.

hopefully someday we will get back to American manufacturing and American ingenuity...........it was the best!!!!!!

this was a joy too watch i got a west bend skillett

Those companies designed wonderful appliances

Bravo ,,, excellent presentation.

The handiest electric fry pan presto made was called the wee-fry. It had a cooking surface that was about 6 X 9 and came with a glass lid that could be used as a baking dish. A very good size for cooking for one or two people. The only thing i would have changed about it was the control unit should have been on the end instead of the side. Like many great presto designs they were only produced for a short time.

Wonderful tour of your extensive collection! We had standard Sunbeam when I was a kid, but can’t say it got a lot of use in my mom’s kitchen. Props to your sister for filling in for Ralph behind the camera. Aside: Had to comment on your apron-Shaw is one of my favorite writers. You’re even wearing a tie for the occasion!

I never knew Corning-ware made one. Have you ever used it and doesn't it work well? I am trying to believe it would work as well as a metal one, but find that hard to believe. Love the videos! Thank you!

I love electric skillets. I've had several different ones over the yrs. I now have a round one. They make a wonderful roast dinner. I also have the early Corning Ware white skillet. I use it avidly with my CW pieces. I don't even have a stove. I took it out of the apt to plug my dryer into the 220. I have a hot plate plus the 2 electric skillets and a big toaster oven and a couple crock pots. NO micro thank goodness... Those things are just good for heating soup and takes up space.

Hi Kevin and MaryAnn! This was a great educational video and I learned so much from you, Kevin! Wow, I never knew that Corning Ware made an electric skillet and certainly never saw one! Tell me, Kevin, do you ever come in the museum/studio and take your appliances down from the shelf and use them? I wondered if you do but never thought to ask. I hope that Ralph's absence doesn't mean that he is ill. I missed his voice tonight watching this video. MaryAnn did a wonderful job in his stead, though. Until next time-sending you all virtual hugs and squeezes. :-)

I have salad master ss 10 and 12 inch oil core electric skillets ..they are work horses . Mine have been loaned out at times .they will cook in the garage or patio ..they have gone camping ..they have been on vacations to use in hotels etc ..they are part of the family .

I have two Sunbeam ones. An FP-A-Standard 11 inch And RLB-6-Buffet 12 inch. Both work wonderfully. The FPA was $8, plus 20 for a NOS heat probe from ebay. (I can't find this model anywhere, with the correct probe, so I just got a NOS one.) The buffet style one was $10 plus shipping. I prefer the buffet, which is from the 60's, it's better for large cuts of bacon. The other is from the early 70's. I use them everyday for breakfast. Eggs, bacon. Toast in the 40120 sunbeam toaster, coffee in the AP10 Sunbeam Percolator. I like to think that an electric skillet's name is akin to yes; a skillet. A round base with a handle or two, and a lid. Farberware and other skillets were round like a skillet. The Sunbeams are akin to yes; a pan. When I think of a pan, it is large, flat, and square or rectangular, like a baking pan. I believe this is why Sunbeam called their's the Sunbeam Electric Frypan.

The Salad Master company used to advertise their products during Saturday wrestling. The man would bang the pans together to show the strength. They stacked together to make a whole meal economically with steam . Those ads were early infomercials, coming on between wrestling matches . We thought the man demonstrating them was a riot !

Forgive me... I just noticed you were posting again, and I'm stoked! :D That Wear-Ever with the teak handles... WOW!

Hey, I have that Cory but it has a Westinghouse control and the Westinghouse cookbook. I call it the space ship, too. My mother made her fantastic pot roast in her Sunbeam. It also had a ceramic insert ,

I love your channel.

I have a party chef like that one. I read online that they used very thin aluminum on the inside cooking surface and did not work that well and gave a very uneven heating surface. But boy did they look cool - like a Jetson's piece of cook ware.

What a most wonderful collection, we have a PRESTO, did lots of stuff in it BUT VEAL CUTLETS WERE THE MOST POPULAR FOR US .it’s tucked away somewhere in the pantry , not used for years ,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I had an electric skillet like this some years ago. And it was stolen from me. Will be purchasing a new one soon. Good video.

There's my blue skillet. Still works fine!!

My favorite video👍🏾

I received a Corning Ware electric skillet as a wedding gift in 1974. I used it until the base pooped out in the late 90’s.

I have the Farberware buffet server. Still works great!

Michigan! That's why you talk normal. I'm from Northern Illinois.

I have just found an old Zip model FPI which must have been manufactured around the 1960s. It is made in New Zealand and it still works perfectly. So much more solidly made than my modern ones. I haven't found the aluminium sticks if you add a little oil ,and the beauty of aluminium is that it can be srubbed clean unlike the teflon surfaced ones. A little beauty, which I will keep and enjoy. Linda Lang, Auckland New Zealand,

Love that I found your channel! I have the round GE electric skillet at 7:24...but I don't think it has the pop up vent..

I love electric skillets. So easy to control the heat. Seems when these no-nonstick skillets were real popular, they always included the temp for liver ! I think that generation - cooks from the 1950's ate a lot of liver. Must be a depression era thing. @ 5:11 I have a skillet like this one but the lid has a nice big square cut out, with a glass window so you can easily see how your food is cooking. I think it is a Universal brand and it is made from nice thick aluminum, so it gives a nice even heat. I also have a few 'oil core' type skillets that cook wonderfully. Sometimes the thinner aluminum electric skillets, get quite a bit hotter around the round heating element ring. I have a sunbeam skillet that has a heating element in the lid for broiling or browning the top of what you are cooking. I know you must have one of those. I don't think using one of those, with the bottom element and top element draws too much power, at least when I used my for great hash browns, it did not blow a fuse.

Of course we're commenting...lol. Love them all, and I spy one I have on your shelf. The Sunbeam that has the cover handle on the side. Mine has the broiler Calrod for the cover that plugs into the same temp control for the frypan. I've only used it to see if it works, but never have used it to cook. I have the 2 sided flip to lower or raise rack, and it's cookbooks/manuals. I can only imagine the burns the lid may have caused. But, it is the preferred skillet to make your Paprikash. Perfect every time. One question though. Can one adjust the temp control or calibrate it? On both this one, and my Sunbeam Turquoise is off by 40 degrees. One gets too hot, and the other is too cool.

Electric skillets and cookers are a fab option for folks with gas cooktops that want a cooler kitchen.

Too bad it was but rarely specified from which decade each of these "skillits" are. What was best for cooking purposes, aluminium or stainless steel ? And were the prices of both more or less similar ? Otherwise, nice collection, though I was expecting a Dormeyer too... The Dory "UFO" reminds me somewhat of the plastic Quellux Infrared lamp for health purposes, same design approach, one always expected a miniature Martian stepping out of it, and asking to be taken to our "leader". Skillets seem to have been less popular in Europe, as far as I can judge. A variety of pressure cookers (Miss Mary, Presto, SEB,...) and non-electric pans seem to have been more "en vogue" over here.

Nice tie, Kevin.

Beautiful collection! I just love your videos. My mom had a Towncraft electric skillet when I was a child and it fascinated me. It was one of the ones that had the oil inside for even cooking. I have managed to find two of these over the years, one small and one large. I use them regularly and love that they are all stainless steel and completely submersible! I just throw mine in the dishwasher and they come out spotless every time. Kevin do you have any Towncraft electric skillets in your collection? I didn’t notice any on your video and I just wanted to know what your opinion was of this type of skillet or if you are familiar with the brand? AnyWho, please keep up the good work, I love looking at your collection of vintage kitchen appliances!

I remember we had one my mom used it often

I was able to find a Sunbeam Broiler Cover Frypan, NEVER USED, at a local Resale Shop for $15.00 instructions and Recipe Book included. Wish I could post a picture. So shiny!!!

Super collection! This was an excellent video! Now off the subject which do you store Kevin in? We know where Marianne is we know where you are. So you must have him sitting on a shelf somewhere. LOL thanks once again for a wonderful walk down memory lane

The big Sears is a West Bend I have a rarity a 55 square aluminum Farberware. he Wards is made by Sunbeam, the Sunbeam skillet came out in 53 Farberware and Presto shared the patent on the detachable thermostat in 55,

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I have a sunbeam but the lid doesn't hang on the side, I wish mine did, Which ones do like the best? My sunbeam gets hot quick, I think the one I have temps Is way off. especially for a hamburger lol Not sure if they are all that way? I am going to try a pork chop next. Thank you for this I finally dug my out and cooked with it today. Salsbury steak. I was wondering also the reg old-time farberware stovetop pans good to use. thinking of getting some.

Take me to your skillet 👽 🛸

I have an electric skillet that has a broiler unit in the lid, a wire rack to hold the food as you broil it. It will also bake. Finding the instruction booklet is sometimes hard to find. I also have two Salad Master electric copper core skillets and another one that is larger…called Society Lady?…Farberware, I think…yes, the buffet server…I love it. I really love my Corning ware electric skillet because it looks so elegant…and you can serve any ware. I also have an electric saucepan that is about 6 inches deep… and another electric saucepan…stainless and beautiful. If I were not in bed and my kitchen downstairs, I would go look and get the brand. Sorry.

Hi Kevin, This is a great collection you've got with excellent elaborate on each piece!! Am looking for an EF50 model Presto skillet replaceable cord,well its an old skillet but cant get rid of it.How can you help?

I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this video. Question: Do you have a Toastmaster P803 (stainless steel, square) electric skillet, and if so, what are your candid thoughts on it? I'm getting a P803 soon and am curious to know. Thanks so much!

Great appliances too bad they don't make them anymore

Just found a thermoware skillet with broiler lid at the thrift and I think it is the bees knees!

My grandmother i think had the Sunbeam and my mother had the Farberware "Buffet Server". My mother would make pot roast and stew in hers. I can remember the Farberware "burping", pardon my lack of class, as it repeated lifted and lowered itself throughout the cooking process. Could you please make some video featuring either or both? Thanks and stay safe!

I have an old Dormeyer (Chicago manufacturer) that belonged to my great-aunt and a Hoover.

Please do one on your mixers! Do you collect vacuumed?

You are right ! Made when 'Made in America' meant the best quality. Did the corning ware list the temperature for liver?

I have a cast iron electric skillet. Have you ever seen one before?

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16:56 OMG, why can't we have nice things like this all the time?