August 19, 2009

Plastic Oven (Feb, 1946)

Filed under: Impractical, Kitchen — @ 10:10 pm
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1946
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Even assuming that it wouldn’t melt, why would it reduce the possibility of burning your food?

Plastic Oven is the latest use of the wonder synthetic. It offers considerable advantages for the housewife, chiefly in reducing possibility of burnt steaks, roasts, cakes, etc. Model shown is British.

6 Comments »

  1. Because you can see your food cooking.

    Comment by Torgo — August 19, 2009 @ 11:52 pm

  2. Because instead of heating the food, it kills the bacteria through the delicious toxic polymer outgassing.

    Comment by fluffy — August 20, 2009 @ 12:38 am

  3. I just wonder, how nice that oven would look after a few roastings.

    Comment by Jari — August 20, 2009 @ 7:31 am

  4. That’s the point, it will melt before your steak is burnt.

    Comment by Sam — August 20, 2009 @ 9:26 am

  5. Do they mean that it is an oven of British manufacture, or a British model is standing in front of the oven?

    Comment by TomB — August 20, 2009 @ 9:34 am

  6. They forgot to claim that it can also be kept absolutely sanitary and eliminate all imperfections in diet. (I love 40s nutrition-speak.)

    Comment by Charlene — August 20, 2009 @ 6:09 pm

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