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  • How to Fix Your Freezer

    Solving freezer crime You open the freezer and water drips on your foot. It’s Christmas time and you don’t want to buy a new refrigerator or spend $500 on a fast-talking repairman. Don’t worry. You are just...

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  • Tempering a Waffle Iron

    “Tempering” your waffle iron will prevent sticking. Here’s how to do it In 1869, Cornelius Swarthout got tired of eating pancakes and invented the waffle iron. Ever since, man has labored to make the perfect waffle, but...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Talk About “Cool” Ovens!

    New space-age “refrigerated ovens” combine the best of two worlds! The Jetsons had a robot maid that cleaned and cooked any time of day. Do you want one, too, so you can leave home in the morning...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Support your Local Grime-fighters

    Learn “how and why” washer and dryers sometimes cause floods and fires Batman and Robin were a crime-fighting duo. In your home, the washer and dryer are a grime-fighting pair. They’re always there for the tough stuff...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Spring Forward Reminder

    When you reset clocks in the spring and fall, at the same time check smoke alarm batteries It’s that time again, time to spring forward or be an hour late. When you reset clocks in the spring...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Special Exhaust Hood Required For Gas Cooktop

    Gas is not dirty You’ve decided to cut energy costs in the kitchen by upgrading your appliances. A friend suggested converting to a gas cooktop and it sounded like a good idea. Except as you recall, mom...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Space-heater Smarts

    A portable electric space heater can be an effective energy-reducing cost-beater “Happy Days” made its TV debut in 1974. In one episode, to offset the cold days of a Milwaukee winter, Richie, Potsie and Ralph plugged in...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Space-age Cooking

    New “no-heat heating” uses an electro-magnetic coil to create a magnetic field that heats a metal pan bottom when it comes in contact with the cooking surface In the ’60s NASA developed a new technology for cooking...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Smoke Detector Upgrade

    Next time you check your smoke detectors, don’t just replace the batteries; determine if it’s time to upgrade When the time changed recently, you should have used the occasion to remind yourself to change batteries in your...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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  • Self-cleaning Ovens

    Why you shouldn’t help when an oven’s designed to clean itself Part of the good life is having appliances that do the work for you – like self-cleaning ovens. But sometimes we’re inclined to give them a little...

    • Posted January 3, 2014
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