All posts by onthehouse
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Protect your Dishwasher
With a dishwasher, it’s “use it or lose it” — or protect it The first dishwasher was invented in 1892. Weary of servants chipping and breaking her dishes, Josephine Cochrane rigged a copper pot with stiff brushes...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Porcelain Enamel Finishes
A 4,000 year old material beautifies and protects only the best Today’s top-of-the-line premium home appliances all have one thing in common. Know what it is? It’s a 4,000-year-old material that protects and beautifies. All the latest...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Mission: Refrigerator Door Seals
When replacing door seals (to keep your cool); there’s an important thing not to do You need to replace the door seals on your refrigerator when they’re old, dried out and cracked; they let cold air escape....
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Mini-sized Appliances
Learn how today’s appliances are getting both smaller and bigger Appliances today are getting larger – with spectacular 12-burner cooktops; mammoth ovens that bake a turkey, two casseroles and a pie simultaneously; refrigerators that store a side of...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Microwave-oven Safety
As microwave ovens age, check their efficiency and safety aspects Technology marches on – bringing us wonderful new household appliances like space-age microwave ovens with radio waves that penetrate food. They jiggle molecules around, causing heat inside that...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Microwave Water Caution
Fast heating? There’s danger if you super-heat water for soups and brew Microwaves, first introduced in the 50s, are a must today for fast heating and cooking. Today you’ll learn that there’s danger lurking there too if...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Microwave Oven Safety
If your unit is more than 15 years old, have it tested for radiation leaks by a professional technician Y2K technology marches on. It brings wonderful new household appliances such as space-age microwave ovens with radio waves...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Magnetic Cooling
Some thing new and “cool” in refrigerators is coming to a kitchen near you While e-frigerators (mentioned earlier) still are questionable potential purchases, there is something definitely new and “cool” in refrigerators. It’s called “magnetic cooling,” and...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Left-hand Refrigerator? (All-righty Then)
If your refrigerator door opens to the wrong side – fear not The 23rd icebox days, four unofficial days of wacky winter games in frigid International Falls, Minnesota. You’ll find such looney sports as frozen turkey bowling,...
- Posted January 3, 2014
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Kitchens To Go
New European modular construction now brings us kitchens to go The metric system was developed in France in 1795. Two hundred years later, it landed in the U.S., joining pricey perfume, haute couture clothes, and French cooking....
- Posted January 3, 2014