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Post by cannmom on Nov 23, 2023 21:10:44 GMT
than an oven that does something “funny”? Turned out to be user error, but I did have a moment of panic. 😂
Add your own nothing scarier Thanksgiving moments.
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Post by dewryce on Nov 23, 2023 21:11:54 GMT
Mother-in-law showing up unexpectedly!
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Post by leeny on Nov 23, 2023 21:13:26 GMT
One Thanksgiving we were at my Mom's helping her finish preparations when a utility transformer down the street exploded and knocked out power to the neighborhood. Thank goodness we were done cooking!
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Post by craftedbys on Nov 23, 2023 21:17:35 GMT
My dishwasher stopped working yesterday.
Lots of handwashing. Thankfully, I have a very large 2 level drying rack now. SMH
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 23, 2023 21:26:04 GMT
Opening up your fresh turkey to a ghastly smell and all the grocery stores are closed. Happened years ago. Got my money back and a $25 gift card. Thankfully it was just the 3 of us so we ended up having grilled flank steak. I got a turkey the next day and roasted it.
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Nov 23, 2023 21:29:37 GMT
Waking up with a slight runny nose, testing for Covid “just to be safe and reassure everyone”, and testing positive.
That was me last year. Luckily this year, no one woke up with any symptoms.
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Post by Lexica on Nov 23, 2023 21:56:51 GMT
than an oven that does something “funny”? Turned out to be user error, but I did have a moment of panic. 😂 Add your own nothing scarier Thanksgiving moments. The oven in my California house was the original oven, a full 44 years old, as was the stovetop, and microwave. I think they were Hotpoint appliances. Starting when they were around 20 years old, every single time I used the oven, and especially when I had company coming over like Thanksgiving or Christmas, I would give the oven a few pats on the handle and an encouraging speech, asking it not to give up on me. And it never did. Everything was still in 100% working order when I moved. And I made a lot of turkeys in that old oven! And not just for holidays. My son went through a stage after his first cancer surgery where all he would eat was turkey. Turkey sandwiches and chopped up turkey in tacos, Turkey pasta, and of course, turkey soup. And applesauce. For over a full year too. Fortunately he started this craving just after Thanksgiving when turkeys were still available everywhere. I had a big freezer in the garage that I started filling with turkeys. Back then the stores all had sales or free turkeys if you spent at least $25 in their store so I started stocking up. I split up my grocery shopping over numerous stores, spending just enough to qualify for a free turkey. Or if not free, some stores had them for only a few dollars. When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to tire of this, I dragged my parents into it having them get turkeys for us too. My garage freezer was filled with turkeys and my dad graciously offered their freezer space too. I was making a turkey just about once a week. I couldn’t believe my son had me pack a turkey sandwich for lunch at school and come home wanting turkey something or other for dinner too. And for the most part, they all had to be the herbed marinated turkey. I think it was just so comforting for him during that time. And that old oven never let me down. I was impressed at how well they used to make things. It was ugly, but it sure did last! |
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Post by femalebusiness on Nov 23, 2023 22:17:46 GMT
than an oven that does something “funny”? Turned out to be user error, but I did have a moment of panic. 😂 Add your own nothing scarier Thanksgiving moments. The oven in my California house was the original oven, a full 44 years old, as was the stovetop, and microwave. I think they were Hotpoint appliances. Starting when they were around 20 years old, every single time I used the oven, and especially when I had company coming over like Thanksgiving or Christmas, I would give the oven a few pats on the handle and an encouraging speech, asking it not to give up on me. And it never did. Everything was still in 100% working order when I moved. And I made a lot of turkeys in that old oven! And not just for holidays. My son went through a stage after his first cancer surgery where all he would eat was turkey. Turkey sandwiches and chopped up turkey in tacos, Turkey pasta, and of course, turkey soup. And applesauce. For over a full year too. Fortunately he started this craving just after Thanksgiving when turkeys were still available everywhere. I had a big freezer in the garage that I started filling with turkeys. Back then the stores all had sales or free turkeys if you spent at least $25 in their store so I started stocking up. I split up my grocery shopping over numerous stores, spending just enough to qualify for a free turkey. Or if not free, some stores had them for only a few dollars. When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to tire of this, I dragged my parents into it having them get turkeys for us too. My garage freezer was filled with turkeys and my dad graciously offered their freezer space too. I was making a turkey just about once a week. I couldn’t believe my son had me pack a turkey sandwich for lunch at school and come home wanting turkey something or other for dinner too. And for the most part, they all had to be the herbed marinated turkey. I think it was just so comforting for him during that time. And that old oven never let me down. I was impressed at how well they used to make things. It was ugly, but it sure did last! I have a white 1949 Roper gas oven. It has six burners, a huge oven and a huge broiler the size of the oven, another small broiler and a drawer. It was left in my house when we moved in, in 1972. It was the deluxe model in the 40s. I have completely torn it apart and rebuilt it twice. I have re-enameled the top once. It cooks like a dream. I have started to replace it a couple of times but just can't bring myself to do it. It works perfectly and I am always afraid if I get a new one I would regret it for the rest of my life. It will never wear out. I actually like the way it looks, it is different. I looked it up recently and it is now worth around eight thousand dollars. They really don't make them like they used to. |
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Post by edie3 on Nov 23, 2023 23:41:03 GMT
I took the turkey out of the oven after cooking it and wanted to double check the temperature. The thermometer read 85 degrees! After a few cuss words, I realized my thermometer was reading it in Celsius!
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 23, 2023 23:45:02 GMT
Mother-in-law showing up unexpectedly! OMG the unexpected guests! |
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Post by femalebusiness on Nov 24, 2023 0:33:48 GMT
I took the turkey out of the oven after cooking it and wanted to double check the temperature. The thermometer read 85 degrees! After a few cuss words, I realized my thermometer was reading it in Celsius! 😂🤣😂🤣 I do that with the temperature gauge that I have in the living room. If it gets barely touched it turns to celsius and it always freaks me out until I realize it has changed to celsius. |
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Post by Lexica on Nov 24, 2023 0:34:12 GMT
I have a white 1949 Roper gas oven. It has six burners, a huge oven and a huge broiler the size of the oven, another small broiler and a drawer. It was left in my house when we moved in, in 1972. It was the deluxe model in the 40s. I have completely torn it apart and rebuilt it twice. I have re-enameled the top once. It cooks like a dream. I have started to replace it a couple of times but just can't bring myself to do it. It works perfectly and I am always afraid if I get a new one I would regret it for the rest of my life. It will never wear out. I actually like the way it looks, it is different. I looked it up recently and it is now worth around eight thousand dollars. They really don't make them like they used to. Awesome! I would never replace it. Yours sounds so beautiful. Mine was ugly as heck but it kept on working. I even had replacements for all three pieces in my garage given to me by my neighbor who had them put into her kitchen new and then changed her mind two years later. Her husband called me to see if I wanted them. I definitely did because they were nice and high end but I sold the house without putting them in. I did leave them in the garage so the new buyer could do what they wanted with the,. I would love to see a picture of your oven! They really did build things to last back then. Now, there is so much plastic in everything that you are lucky to get 8 years out of anything. |
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Post by padresfan619 on Nov 24, 2023 0:35:38 GMT
The place you ordered your meal from being closed 😉
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Post by Linda on Nov 24, 2023 0:36:24 GMT
OMG the unexpected guests! My mum told the story (every year) of the Thanksgiving when I was 4 and my sister was a newborn (b. early Oct) - we were living in Germany on a British Army base so Thanksgiving was just an us thing - no one else was celebrating - so mum had a very small turkey etc... Apparently I walked down the block while the turkey was cooking and invited over our neighbours - a mum/dad and young son - thankfully the neighbours rang my mum and asked if there was anything they could bring so she had a little bit of time to figure out how to stretch dinner to feed nearly twice as many. |
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Post by femalebusiness on Nov 24, 2023 0:44:04 GMT
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1949-roper-burner-stove-oven-172559187Here is one that is almost identical to mine. Slide to the left and there are about four pictures. The handles on my stove are whiter and I don't have that beige thing on the top. I think that may be salt and pepper shakers as I have heard this stove came with the salt and pepper shakers originally.
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Post by Lexica on Nov 24, 2023 0:49:35 GMT
femalebusiness, does your stove have a built-in griddle? My parent’s had this great old stove in their first house, the house I was raised in until I was 12. It had the griddle in the center. They referred to it as the hot plate. When my older sister was about 6 or 7 years old, my dad was telling us about how his mother would put pine needles from their Christmas tree on the “hot plate” to make the whole house smell like Christmas. About 15 minutes later there was a huge explosion in our kitchen. We all went running down the hall to see what had happened. My sister had taken one of our Franciscan dinner plates, put it on the stove, and turned the gas for that burner on! She heard “hot plate” and took it literally! There were shards of dinner dish everywhere. And because my parents were laughing so hard, my sister started to cry. She had no idea what they were laughing at. Somehow I must have heard them refer to the griddle section as the hot plate when I was in the kitchen with them because I knew what had gone wrong. I explained to my sister what the “hot plate“ was and that made my parents laugh more and made my older sister furious because I knew something that she didn’t and she felt embarrassed. I would love to have a gas stove again. I would adore a vintage one like yours but would be happy with gas over my electric stove.
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Post by femalebusiness on Nov 24, 2023 1:14:28 GMT
Lexica No mine doesn't have a center griddle mainly because it has six burners. Growing up we had an old O'Keefe and Merritt that had the center griddle. I made many grilled cheese sandwiches and also pancakes on that one. ETA: I just now realized that I have never had a “new” stove. Nothing newer than 1950 for my entire life. 😂🤣
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Post by breetheflea on Nov 24, 2023 1:21:37 GMT
We had our oven stop working a few weeks before Thanksgiving in 2020 and trying to get a new one in less than two weeks was fun..., good thing we could pick it up at the store and didn't have to have it delivered. Delivery was taking people 3-4 months at the time. We didn't end up having to make Thanksgiving for six in the toaster oven.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Nov 24, 2023 2:01:36 GMT
So one year this happened: One of the pies that I had cooked the night before had run over slightly and dripped something gooey (don't remember what kind of pie) onto the oven because I forgot to put a baking sheet under it like I usually do. And then after the pies were finished I had something else that had to go into the oven right afterward to be baked at a different temperature...but it couldn't because the oven was too smokey from whatever pie filling goo had dripped and was now a black smokey mess. SO I was running out to the grocery store late on the night before Thanksgiving to buy oven cleaner, ugh!  And then of course I had to come home and clean the oven, then finally bake the 2nd thing...I was exhausted. Thankfully, DH helped me with the oven cleanup (and drove the next day so I could sleep LOL)! I do always wonder what people in the store that night thought when they saw me buying Easy-Off while they were getting rolls, butter, sage, pie crust, or whatever other Thanksgiving ingredients they needed at the last minute. It all had to be done the night before because I think we were leaving early the next morning and everything had to cool and then be packaged up for travel. |
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Nov 24, 2023 3:32:53 GMT
The oven in my California house was the original oven, a full 44 years old, as was the stovetop, and microwave. I think they were Hotpoint appliances. Starting when they were around 20 years old, every single time I used the oven, and especially when I had company coming over like Thanksgiving or Christmas, I would give the oven a few pats on the handle and an encouraging speech, asking it not to give up on me. And it never did. Everything was still in 100% working order when I moved. And I made a lot of turkeys in that old oven! And not just for holidays. My son went through a stage after his first cancer surgery where all he would eat was turkey. Turkey sandwiches and chopped up turkey in tacos, Turkey pasta, and of course, turkey soup. And applesauce. For over a full year too. Fortunately he started this craving just after Thanksgiving when turkeys were still available everywhere. I had a big freezer in the garage that I started filling with turkeys. Back then the stores all had sales or free turkeys if you spent at least $25 in their store so I started stocking up. I split up my grocery shopping over numerous stores, spending just enough to qualify for a free turkey. Or if not free, some stores had them for only a few dollars. When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to tire of this, I dragged my parents into it having them get turkeys for us too. My garage freezer was filled with turkeys and my dad graciously offered their freezer space too. I was making a turkey just about once a week. I couldn’t believe my son had me pack a turkey sandwich for lunch at school and come home wanting turkey something or other for dinner too. And for the most part, they all had to be the herbed marinated turkey. I think it was just so comforting for him during that time. And that old oven never let me down. I was impressed at how well they used to make things. It was ugly, but it sure did last! I have a white 1949 Roper gas oven. It has six burners, a huge oven and a huge broiler the size of the oven, another small broiler and a drawer. It was left in my house when we moved in, in 1972. It was the deluxe model in the 40s. I have completely torn it apart and rebuilt it twice. I have re-enameled the top once. It cooks like a dream. I have started to replace it a couple of times but just can't bring myself to do it. It works perfectly and I am always afraid if I get a new one I would regret it for the rest of my life. It will never wear out. I actually like the way it looks, it is different. I looked it up recently and it is now worth around eight thousand dollars. They really don't make them like they used to. My family lives in a town with a “local appliance store.” My sister bought a house and had a super shoestring budget, so she called wanting a stove/oven. They didn’t have anything cheap enough, but they knew our name, and told her there was someone getting a whole new kitchen appliance delivery that week. They were trading in the old stuff, and the stove was ancient and would be dumped. They would give them her name and if they wanted to sell it to her, give it to her, whatever. That was 12 years ago. That stove was something out of a 1940’s catalog. It died this year, and not only can we not get parts, we can’t even find a way to make them. The days of decades of meals made on the same appliance are coming to an end. But her unintentional Pinterest worthy ridiculously old stove will always have a special place in my heart. |
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Post by mikklynn on Nov 24, 2023 14:36:14 GMT
I set a timer to baste my turkey. When it went off, my very helpful 4 year old son turned the oven off and I didn't notice! I think I noticed about an hour later, so dinner was late.
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Post by don on Nov 24, 2023 15:08:44 GMT
Seahawks losing at home on Thanksgiving.
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Post by Tearisci on Nov 24, 2023 15:22:20 GMT
Seahawks losing at home on Thanksgiving. Yes. Heartbreaking. |
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Post by femalebusiness on Nov 24, 2023 16:21:32 GMT
I have a white 1949 Roper gas oven. It has six burners, a huge oven and a huge broiler the size of the oven, another small broiler and a drawer. It was left in my house when we moved in, in 1972. It was the deluxe model in the 40s. I have completely torn it apart and rebuilt it twice. I have re-enameled the top once. It cooks like a dream. I have started to replace it a couple of times but just can't bring myself to do it. It works perfectly and I am always afraid if I get a new one I would regret it for the rest of my life. It will never wear out. I actually like the way it looks, it is different. I looked it up recently and it is now worth around eight thousand dollars. They really don't make them like they used to. My family lives in a town with a “local appliance store.” My sister bought a house and had a super shoestring budget, so she called wanting a stove/oven. They didn’t have anything cheap enough, but they knew our name, and told her there was someone getting a whole new kitchen appliance delivery that week. They were trading in the old stuff, and the stove was ancient and would be dumped. They would give them her name and if they wanted to sell it to her, give it to her, whatever. That was 12 years ago. That stove was something out of a 1940’s catalog. It died this year, and not only can we not get parts, we can’t even find a way to make them. The days of decades of meals made on the same appliance are coming to an end. But her unintentional Pinterest worthy ridiculously old stove will always have a special place in my heart. The last time that I tore it apart I bought all new gas cocks for the burners. That was about 20 years ago. They probably don't make them any more so I am hoping the ones I put in will last until I am gone. |
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 24, 2023 16:34:37 GMT
Our cooktop has been out since August. I t was installed 15 months prior. We've had installation dates for the last month get postponed. Earlier this week, the Wednesday installation day got changed to December 4th. Thankfully I had already mentally prepared for it to happen. Cooking Thanksgiving with one little camping burner was an experience.
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And then of course I had to come home and clean the oven, then finally bake the 2nd thing...I was exhausted. Thankfully, DH helped me with the oven cleanup (and drove the next day so I could sleep LOL)!
