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I pulled out my perfect six cup percolator this morning for the first time in probably about a year. This thing is in brand new/mint condition.

The trick is keeping the flame or heat low enough so that the water doesn't boil in the base, but only in the little bell of the percolator stem. It's so much easier to do in these glass percolators where you can see.

Also I use my little butane camping stove to get it boiling, and then I transfer it to my glass cooktop. I'm nervous to give it high heat on my cooktop because I don't have a spreader. I've done it plenty of times before because of how even the glass cooktop heats, but The percolator itself wobbles. I'm sure that it's heating unevenly on the flat surface. Regardless I can't wait to have a cup of great coffee in a few minutes. (I like strong coffee so I perk it for 15 minutes at least. ☺️

Currently at the Eco thrift and there is this Pyrex 9 cup for less than $4 but it doesn't have the insides. Also it looks like maybe the handle was sanded down a little due to some chipping at the bottom? IDK. I don't need any more junk in my house but like how can I pass this up for so cheap? Do you think it would be easy to find the innards or do you think I should leave it for someone else? I don't know! 😭😭

I've been on a roll lately!! I just had to post this to show it off. That price tho!!!!!!???

I scoured the rest of the store for the rest of the set, but couldn't find them.

This store is called Eco thrift, and it's really the weirdest store with their pricing. One day I'll be complaining about it and then the next day I find this.

I know that it is a super long shot, but does anybody have the manual for this electric skillet?

I found this adorable little presto "wee-fry" electric skillet for only a few bucks at the thrift. I'm a sucker for electric skillets, so ofc I bought it in a millisecond.

I'm wondering and overly curious about the glass cover. It seems suspiciously made to be shaped like a casserole dish. I am wondering if it was meant to be used as a serving platter as well, or maybe you could even bake things in it? I didn't know because of the writing on it if it could go in the oven.

I'm just curious what the manual says about the cover, so I'm wondering if anyone has a manual for it by any chance that they could upload pictures of?

When my grandmother passed away I purchased their home. Here's some old goodies I found.

Comet: 1989

Lipton Tea sample: unknown, but that coffee maker was from 1972 in the graphic.

Diet Pepsi coupon: expires 1990

Bathroom duck cleaner: 1993

Vanish cleaner: 1994

Avon cucumber melon hand gel: 2005

Stimudent plaque removers: 1989

Edit: I do, and have always realized that the dates on these aren't expiration dates, and don't indicate the date the product was produced. All of these items are old as hell, and the package design copyright dates are a good indicator of the "era" they were produced. Just some interesting things I found in my grandma's house that I know are old, so enjoy the pictures.

Went over to Eco thrift on my lunch break and found a few really good deals. A spice of Life... bread pan? Is that what this is called? Anyway it's a spice of life bread pan or loaf pan, that has a Snap-On plastic lid. A snowflake Pyrex butter dish, and an Old Town blue gravy boat. Each item was priced under $3, but the gravy boat came up a little bit more because the pieces were individually priced for some reason LOL. Still a steal. Usually that thrift store has ridiculous prices but I guess it depends who prices the stuff.

Yay I actually found some Pyrex today on my lunch break. I found the bottom part to the gravy boot first and I searched all of the shelves until I found the gravy boat itself, somehow they got separated. This Eco thrift store is so bizarre. Sometimes their prices are fantastic, but on other things it's absolutely absurd to the point that the things just don't sell. It must be different people pricing things. But I was surprised to find these there today and delighted with the price. I passed on a country festival little CorningWare saucepan even though it's my favorite pattern. I just really don't have room for anything else. But I had to get this meatloaf/bread pan because I don't have one and it had to click on lid. I doubt they made a glass lid for this right?

This was my grandma's cookbook from one of the parishes she used to frequent, along with St Elizabeth's, which was her main parish. (I also have their cookbook, but it's not as good as this one). I use this cookbook for baking, entrees, and sides all the time especially around the holidays. Lots of yummy American classics, and a *ton* of yummy Polish recipes of course. The lady in the picture was a member of the parish, a well-known parishioner who would make large batches of food for events and just feed people. Apparently she made fantastic food, but I can't remember what her name was. I had asked my grandma a couple times about her, but now her name is lost in my memory.

Also here is a strange handwritten recipe that she wrote down for "bread." I'd love to try to make this one time. The raisins kind of threw me off LOL. Finding this weird old bread recipe was the reason I searched to find this group LOL. I have a ton of her handwritten stuff.

If anyone wanted to try the bread recipe, On the back of the paper it has further instructions that I forgot to post. It says put dough in large pot and let rise. After it rises, punch it down and let it rise again. And then put it in five greased bread pans and let rise again. Bake it 350 for 45 minutes.

So I just started buying up cast iron at the thrift stores in like the last two months. The smallest pans I have are two #5's, a lodge and an unknown (probably homemade). And then this BSR #3.

My question is; what do you guys use these little pans for? I reheated like taco meat in a #5, but I can't for the life of me figure out what I would make in the #3. It's just so tiny. I mean people must have used them if they bought them, I'm just trying to figure out what you guys would use these for. I bought it because it was cool. Then I fixed it and reseasoned it, but I would love to use it for something LOL.

Anybody have any ideas about who made this, or is it just some foreign no name pan? The only marking on it is the "5" on the handle. I just started buying cast iron pans and really using them maybe a month or two ago...so I'm new to all of this.

It doesn't really have the normal heat ring on the bottom that I am used to seeing, more like the bottom of the pan is just kind of inset so the sides come down and form a sort of "ring." It has these weird wavy patterns on the bottom too. I stripped it with oven cleaner and these pictures are right before I rubbed it down with avocado oil and stuck it in the oven. It's currently in the oven now. I really wish I took some before pictures because it was absolutely CAKED with a thick layer of carbon that was all crackily and flaking off, especially on the bottom. I may not have cleaned it perfectl, but damn if you would have seen it before LOL.....

Check out this handsome gentleman and his two head feathers.

Pretty much what the title says. Apparently this pan is a pre-1960s unmarked Wagner. I have a question as to whether the factory could have put grind marks on the bottom, or if one of the owners did it. I Am brand new to cast iron and picked this up at the local value village and it's one of my very first pans. In the past couple weeks I have gotten six pans and I'm starting to get acquainted and used to them. This is the only one that seems to have grind marks on the bottom and flat spots that seem to be ground off. The pan works well and is almost completely level except for a small wobble toward the grind marks. But it seems like the way it's wobbling the grind marks would have made it worse so IDK why someone would put those there. They don't bother me it's just my curiosity more than anything

they took over my local value village and I thought maybe it would get better. No. They probably have the same person pricing all this stuff strangely. I'm not paying retail at a thrift store. Or over retail. The only thing is that suddenly everything is donated is actually appearing on the shelves so that there is so much stuff. If the prices were decent it would be great. Contrary to my local Goodwill where I see cars pulling up every few seconds out back unloading stuff, but their shelves are empty and full of plastic useless dollar store crap and printers. Still can't figure out where it all goes. The black thing for 32.99 is a generic like.... paper shredder you could get on Amazon.

Came across these two dishes at the Goodwill yesterday. I've never seen this pattern, but I need more baking dishes like I need a hole in the head. 🤣. So I left them for someone else.

So I am relatively new to cast iron, and 100% new to cleaning/stripping one. I found 3 very very VERY dirty pans at eco thrift for like $6 a piece. I wish I took a before picture. The carbon was so caked on, it must have been 1/8 of an inch thick, all crackled on one side on the bottom, and gummy under the first layer. I used yellow cap oven cleaner, and let it sit for 72 hours applying twice. I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed with a brillo pad and a scraper until my hands were sore, and I got it to the condition in the pictures.

Can I just season it and use it like this? Or do I really need to get rest off? I'm dreading doing the other two.

It says 9 inch skillet, made in holland on the bottom. So IDK the brand. The other one says 10 1/2 inch skillet on the back with a random letter underneath and I learned that is a 1950s Wagner. The third says made in Korea on it.

(I have included a quick picture of the other two that I haven't scrubbed and cleaned yet, just to show the condition they were in, I don't want to pull the whole thing out of the trash bag yet though).

Boy am I a sucker for an electric skillet. I found this NOS thermoware for 15 bucks yesterday. I use the term NOS because it was never used, came with the instructions and all of the accessories, even though it obviously wasn't kept in a box and likely tossed around when donated which caused the fry basket to scratch the interior a bit and put some scuffs on the outside. Unlike the Sunbeams, this interior is milled roughly with the metal being grooved a little bit creating an aluminum surface that is rough like a lot of the "sunray" pans in the '70s. I must have 10 electric skillets now, and I was debating getting this one but I really really wanted that fry basket mostly lol.

(I'm about to make some bacon in it).

Here's a cool NOS casserole dish with a wicker trivet that I found at GW for $10, probably 70s or '80s. It's giving 70s to me. It must have been right when they stop using the fire King name, because the box doesn't say fire King, and the dish just says anchor Hocking, but the little insert still has fire King on it.

Passed on these for $5 a cup at value village. Not paying that at a thrift store.

Enjoy this beautiful presto pressure cooker from 1974. The one that I currently use is an electric one from the '60s with a Teflon interior, and I recently turned the heat too high so there's little bubbles in the Teflon that haven't flaked or anything but I'm worried that they will. It was in mint condition until just a week or two ago 😢. So I ordered this bare aluminum one. This was never used. Can't wait to make a roast in it, although I almost hate to use it. I tested it out with some water with a dash of vinegar so it didn't oxidize the inside and make it lose its shine (which I know it will turn gray the first time I make a roast in it). I searched high and low for a mint condition avocado green pressure cooker because I am so picky about my vintage items and I want new old stock if possible. I was so lucky to find this and it wasn't expensive at all.