Broadback > wrote:
> On 16/05/2013 17:45, KenK wrote:
>> dsi1 > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> On 5/15/2013 7:55 AM, KenK wrote:
>>>> This morning I picked up a Taylor TruTemp #3506 oven dial
>>>> thermometer. A few minutes ago I tried to find some reviews. All I
>>>> Googled in the first few screens that looked appropriate was Amazon
>>>> and the reviews there were really terrible. Did I blow $4 or are they
>>>> really not that bad? If they are, recommendations for a locally
>>>> available oven thermometer, hopefully accurate to say plus/minus 10
>>>> or 15 degrees F or so?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Any thermometer can be faulty but you should assume that your new
>>> purchase will work fine for a while. Life is better if you keep a
>>> positive attitude. Good luck!
>>>
>>
>> Me!!! A positive attitude??? Don't I wish!
>>
>>
> When I was young (many moons ago) we had no electric in our house. My
> mother cooked on what was, basically, a tin box with a paraffin heater
> beneath. Around 1946 we had electric installed and a brand new electric
> oven. The only time I remember my mother crying was when she tried to
> bake a cake in this "newfangled" contraption. My father had sent the old
> "oven" to the tip, so Mum had no choice. It was not long before she was
> baking to her old standard.

Anytime old stuff is described, I think of my grandmothers coal stove/oven.
Summertime must have been murder. Must have been mid fifties when she
switched to electric.

Greg