Fully functional and we have used several times when it was too cold to grill steaks outdoors. Beautiful condition but it is missing the handle to the drip tray. The rotisserie bar is also not original we made and modified one from a more modern piece. We have many more pictures-just ask. ***Cross Listed***. I need a manual for black angus king size rotisserie oven - Toaster Ovens question.
I recently lost my mother at the age of 90. She had a long and healthy life and died very much on her own terms, so I’m doing okay. But where to begin with a visual tribute to one’s mother? And how to avoid slipping into some Hitchcock-meets-Freud nightmare? So I’ve decided to start someplace safe: my mother’s appliances.
A woman of somewhat obsessive routine, my mother had a unique relationship with her appliances. They were very important to the proper functioning of her life, and very much extended members of our family. Click on any image for a larger version. The most important appliance in the home was my mother’s dishwasher. Not because it saved her time from doing dishes manually, but because of its germ-fighting abilities. My mother was a nurse and knew that extremely hot water combined with good detergent and the highest drying cycle meant that family colds, flues, and other germs would not spread via dishes or utensils.
But of course for a dishwasher to function properly and kill the most germs, it must be loaded in precisely the right manner and run on a regular basis, whether full or not. My mother lost sleep at night if she knew there were dirty dishes sitting in the dishwasher. When you live in a house for over 50 years as my mother did, you get to know the little sounds and vibrations that indicate all systems are functioning properly.
This is especially true for appliances. My mother listened to her appliances the way a pilot listens to jet engines. One small change in tone was cause for concern.
Accordingly, it really wasn’t completely safe to leave an appliance unattended. My mother would never leave the house with a dishwasher or clothes washer running and she preferred, when possible, to stay in the same room as the appliance while it went through its cycles. You can never be too careful when water and electricity come together to get the job done. For the last two decades my mother lived on a strange mix of cigarettes, Special K, chopped eggs, mayonnaise, and Almaden Chablis from a large box she kept in her closet. But there was a time when she cooked for her family, however reluctantly.
Most of this cooking took place in a large, square electric frying pan made by General Electric. These were popular fixtures in homes during the 1950s and ’60s, and in our house, anyway, was simply where dinner was cooked. It didn’t matter much what you were cooking, as long as it was fried in several inches of Wesson oil and burnt beyond recognition.
My mother’s personal favorite was fried chicken gizzards, which we endured on a fairly regular basis. But they didn’t taste much worse than any other meat, fish, or pork that came out of that square pan. On special occasions, like when we got invited to spend a week at the beach with a friend, my mother would get out the Black Angus rotisserie and cook one of her famous salt-encrusted roasts. To think that my mother was famous for anything related to food is strange to me, but for some reason everyone loved her roasts.
I don’t know if it was the butcher she frequented, the massive amount of salt, or the slow cooking of the rotisserie, but for some reason her roasts did come out pretty well. So I got invited to the beach a lot. The Black Angus also came out when anyone died. While sending flowers seems wasteful, a quality roast is always welcomed by a grieving family. A rotisserie is a versatile cooking platform. You can bake potatoes, fry eggs, even heat coffee. But my mother only used hers for making roasts.
Everything else went into the frying pan to be drowned in some form of saturated fat. The hardest part about dealing with my mother’s death will probably come when it’s time to have a garage sale and put a price tag on things like the Black Angus and her electric skillet. Right about now a plate full of fried chicken gizzards sounds pretty good. Categories:,,, Tags. Gene Gable has spent a lifetime in publishing, editing and the graphic arts and is currently a technology consultant and writer.
He has spoken at events around the world and has written extensively on graphic design, intellectual-property rights, and publishing production in books and for magazines such as Print, U&lc, ID, Macworld, Graphic Exchange, AGI, and The Seybold Report. Gene's interest in graphic design history and letterpress printing resulted in his popular columns 'Heavy Metal Madness' and 'Scanning Around with Gene' here on CreativePro.com. Gene, of all the regular email postings I receive, I most look forward to your stories. Like you, I’m fascinated by the lifestyle of the 50’s and 60’s, and marvel to find my world completely different from what I expected it to be. Once again, you’ve produced a gem and my sympathies for the the loss of your mother.
My mom is thankfully still alive and active. When I visit her, I love using her old kitchen appliances that are a direct connection to my younger self. I can’t wait to introduce her youngest great-grandson to the 1956 “beehive” Osterizer that still makes the best milkshakes. My mother was only in love with two of her appliances: The dishwasher and the chest freezer. Cme Uf Series Midi Keyboard Driver For Mac Os X. The freezer she adored because it allowed my parents to buy from the farmer’s co-op monthly, loading up on essentials like a 1/2 side of beef at a time.
The dishwasher she loved because it allowed her to keep her kitchen organized. She was the only person allowed to load it, but she had four boys trained to empty it daily. My mom never really enjoyed cooking. Feeding five males created havoc in her kitchen & offended her sense of neatness & having everything in its place. Her dishwasher was a tool for restoring order, & for that reason alone she cherished it. I always like retro pictures and manuals (so hard to find too) I recall selling a few items on e-Bay after first my Dad passed and my Mom wanted his “treasures” out!
Gene I forgot to say the most important thing I am so sorry for Your Loss. I am so sorry, I lost my Dad in 1996 (and The calling Hours were over Fathers Day weekend) and my Mom in 2001, its a very hard thing to go through.
And are the manuals all Your Mom’s?) wow I have some sites with vintage manuals of Guitar Amplifiers and Guitars (actually here is one go to site map and manuals from the 1950’s on are present Leo Fender (of Fender Guitars, later George and Leo (G&L Guitars) George Fullerton and Leo Fender and? Also Music Man Guitars and Bass Guitars (I think) Leo Fender did not play guitar, he was a electronics genius and amplifier creator and developer and helped bring first The Fender BradKaster? Gene your posts are always superb!!! I save them all you never know when you will need a great retro idea So sorry for your loss your mom sounds like a great person!!! Public Finance Seidman Ebook Readers.
And you have so many great memories to look back on I lost my mom when she was just 61 and I was pregnant with my first son. Three years later, when I was pregnant with my second son, we outgrew our starter house, put it on the market and unexpectedly sold it and quickly had to find a new one it was a little stressful to say the least when I walked into a house that had woodwork and plumbing fixtures that reminded me of my grandmother’s house AND turquoise blue Hotpoint appliances (built-in oven & stove top) just like my mom’s kitchen, I knew I was home!!!! AND the electric frying pan was a must I got one of my own as a wedding present and used it until the teflon lining wore out then gave up and started cooking on the stove top with regular pots and pans not sure what the whole appeal of the electric skillet wasexcept when cooking for a large family (I was one of four) it freed up a burner on the stove for something else.
My Mother in law gave me her old rotisserie, probably from the 50s or 60s in excellent condition. Unfortunately no manual. It's by Black Angus Inc. I can find no information on this company, it must have went under ages ago. There is a shallow pan on top and a hinged lid, I have no idea what it is for, water?
Can anyone give me any basics on using this, approx. How long and what temp for whole chicken, roasts etc.(yes I do plan on checking with a meat thermometer.) Or give me a site for a similar product where I could download a free manual? Any help would be appreciated. The pan on top is a warming tray. More than likely, there used to be a cover for the top that is now lost. Either way, that pan gets warm and can hold other items warm as well.
It’s a good place to put rolls to keep them warm. You could also put tightly sealed foil packs there as well. It appears that this unit is also a toaster oven so you can use it for broiling as well. If it has a bottom heating element, then it can also be used for baking, but more than likely, it only has a top element that is used for the rotisserie and for broiling. There should be a setting on the control knobs that differentiate between rotisserie (activate the motor) and just broiling (motor is off). When you use the rotisserie, make sure to keep the drip pan in the bottom position as shown in the picture.but you can remove that wire rack for rotisserie coking.
The wire rack would be use for broiling, and when broiling, you would move the drip pan and wire rack to the upper slot so that it is close to the upper element. I typically do chickens at 400 degrees F, and give it 15-17 minutes per pound.
So for a 4 pound bird, at 17 minutes per pound, it will take 68 minutes. After that time, check the temperature in the thigh of the bird with a meat thermometer.
It is done at 170 degrees F. Remove the chicken, cover in foil, and let it rest 5 to 10 minutes before carving.
When doing a chicken in the rotisserie, make sure to truss it (tie it up) well. You want the legs and wings to be tight against the body and not flapping about, and certainly not bumping into the heating element as the bird turns.