The Roper bit was tongue in cheek all the way. They are generally reguarded as the lowest of the line. Mr. Haney told me personally that your brownies are the best in the west.
You had me worried there edgar, I was beginning to think that they upgraded their line and failed to inform me.
I think that we should get Dsy something like this:
(A 60" Wolf range from a recent job.)
With some mesquite chips you might get more flavor out of that.
It was state of the art in its time.
I would much rather carry that up three flights of stairs than the previous.
That's a fine one in your pic. I want to plant petunias in the stove I posted. For Dys's garden.
That would work, I have an old TV we can turn into fishtank with a few modifications.
Oh my gosh, sublime, does that range give the user bragging rights or something? Wow.
Edgar, in another house in SF, there was a real wood burning range. It was a stove and oven, and the stove was gas, if I remember correctly, but the oven was wood burning. We got the house for next to nothing because the entire area was going to be torn down within a couple of years in order to add on another wing to the San Francisco Hospital. Most of the long-time residents had long since moved. Beautiful old Victorian with the wonderful wood bannisters and a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay. The kind of view that goes for thousands under normal circumstances.
Dys just mentioned that he used to have his grandfather's old stove, called a monkey stove, just like the one your posted. Bet you've had a few in your lifetime.
Diane, the sad truth is that it will probably never be used. I have a couple of other pictures of that house if you would like to see them. I should have been a heart surgeon.
Why won't that beauty be used?
We used wood burning stoves most of my childhood. None were so elegant as the one I posted, however. Mostly we used ones more shaped like ranges. It's hell to live in a canvass tent in the summertime with that type of stove to cook on.
well yeah, when I lived with my grandfather we had an old army canvas tent with a stove-pipe cutout and had a monkey stove for heating/cooking and we lived in it for 3 or 4 months every year. Mostly up on slumgullion pass in southern colorado where we ran sheep and cattle for the summer.
As a boy. My step father built a wooden framework and stretched a canvas tent over it. It was quite large.
If that question were posed to me, 90% of the time in homes like that the only person that cooks is the live in maid. In one instance where I have installed a range like that I ended up going back six months later to finish some panels and the manual was still inside the range. It is like Diane said it is bragging rights, also if you look closely in the picture they have a steamer oven to the left of the sink and an extra cooktop to the right of the stove.
Dys - that makes sense.
Edgar - did you live full-time in a canvas house?
Sublime - that is ridiculous.
But they pay my bills. I'm not complaining. In that particular house I installed $150,000 worth of appliances
Right, I guess it doesn't do any harm, it just seems so obnoxious.
