Interesting.
This is why I don’t own a CS paella pan. I’d never use it enough. Hopefully Dan’s Sunshine loves what comes out of this thing. Making isn’t that hard, Dan, but, like others have said, it’s a wide load to heat. If you have a Smokey Joe or Weber kettle, I bet they’d do the trick. I think a Smokey Joe is only 14".
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Not at a thrift store, but a lucky score. Some years back, I was regularly checking eBay for vintage KitchenAid mixers because as most older bakers know, the 1960’s Hobart-made models are virtually immortal. They always went for hundreds of dollars. But I had added Hobart to my search terms and a listing appeared with wording something like “Hobart cake mixer”. No mention of KA. I was the only bidder, and got it for, if memory serves, $75 including shipping. It will outlive me for sure.
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Wow, that thing is bullet-proof. Enjoy that bad boy. I’m semi looking at mixers right now. Always kneaded bread by hand; but I’d love to dump the mess into a mixing bowl and hit the switch.
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i had to look up what the ‘carrot sharpener’. what a silly thing.
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I bought a Super George for $5. Appeared it was never used. I work at a school and asked the custodians if I could put in their lunchroom. These guys all raise beef, so you had four guys with ribeyes and stuff for lunch. Worth $5. Still using old George.
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When I had mine, I absolutely loved it. It didn’t need bells and whistles.
And she didn’t even mention the fading fads of sous vide or coffee pod appliances…
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Still have the OG George Foreman stashed, and what useful tool that used to be. I think if I just remembered to,
There was a brief phase in early apartment days when I didn’t have a microwave, and a foil packet in the GF worked better and faster than any microwave since 
Meanwhile — anyone who used a pressure cooker before the IP was released knows that it wasn’t a fad. It just made it more hands-off by making it electric and timed. Also made many people who were scared of traditional PCs get over the hump.
The best obsolete device I have known is still stashed somewhere in my mom’s storage boxes, and I wish it would come back to the market. In the 80s, when countertop ovens in India were rare and electricity expensive, it was an infrared countertop device that looked like a bigger (but more compactly designed) George Foreman grill with changeable plates — grill, waffle, sandwich toast, griddle, and a cake pan that fit into the gap when the plates were propped apart. Everything that came out of it was delicious, and it was really fast. Before its time, though — if it were introduced today, when everyone is baking and cooking those kinds of things more than ever, it would take off like a rocket.
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I still have an IP snd still use it regularly.
Still have and use a crockpot.
Loved my GF, but my life was in a different place…balancing 3 people, two careers, one offspring in youth sport, and an MBA program meant that sandwiches and quesadillas and healthy-and-quick earned George a place on the counter.
Never felt the love for sous vide…and dairy intolerance rendered the fondue pot and the raclette grill unusable.
(And the spiralizer still gets dragged out every so often. I actually like zoodles.)
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My George Foreman grill has removable plates (cooking surfaces) and the dishwasher cleans them up for me. YEA!!
Sunshine loves rare steak, so when I cook her steak on the GF, she counts down the time on her phone’s stopwatch.
I like my steak more on the “medium” side, so my steak stays on a bit longer.
I really do find it useful for cooking steaks and hamburgers.
I inherited an 1960’s Sunbeam deep fryer and have used it as an electric soup pot, not as a deep fryer. I do have several crockpots with removable crock inserts: those are so much more convenient. I see crockpot parts for sale at the thrift stores, but the thrifty prices are gone!
The George Foreman I owned as a poor post-grad was my gateway out of vegetarianism. Praise the George Foreman!
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Picked up this electric smoker free on Craigslist. Says it is Bluetooth enabled with meat probe to monitor temp. Gonna clean it up and give it a test this weekend.
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Wow!
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We shall see - the ad said everything works but you never know.
The wood (beech) ones from SLT (and, I am sure, others) are inexpensive and pretty good, too.
Edit. Never mind. It looks as if SLT dropped them. They were about $2. Beechwood seems to have shot up in price.
Ok smoker works but I couldn’t get the Bluetooth to appear in the app even though it said paired. First set of ribs came out great.
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I love the GF. IPs are cool, too. Modern pressure cooker. I use the one at school to feed some kids. GF is good for steaks and burgers, but it didn’t handle fish well.
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