This month seems likely to be, like most of this year, a record setting one for us. People appear to have really hunkered down and gotten in to home cooking if our sales of our Revere Ware replacement parts are any indication.
Just a reminder that if you are shopping with us for a present for a loved one, and hope to have it under the tree by Christmas, place your order ASAP, as Christmas is getting close and the USPS isn’t getting any faster.
Happy Holidays!
With 4 days to go, this auction for a new Revere Ware percolator seems to be already setting some records
It’s a very nice example of pristine Revere Ware, but personally, I’d be happy with a used one nicely polished with Bar Keepers Friend.
This definitely won’t last – a pristine vintage era bale handled pot at a price that just can’t be beat.
Reader Richard contacted us to identify an item.
A few years ago someone else asked us to identify a similar item and we were able to determine it is a Revere ware deep well cooker. Here are a couple of references to it in various Revere Ware publications.
The deep well cooker dates back to somewhere in the early 1940’s. How exactly it is used isn’t entirely clear. Richards appears to fit quite nicely inside his bale handle pot, which make me think you would use it like a double boiler of sorts such that the heat applied to the bottom via the stove would spread out and cook from the bottom and the sides. However, our own photo guide (assembled by a gentleman who is sadly no longer with us to clarify) states:
Deep Well Cookers (used in special stove-top “heat pits”) were common in 1930’s kitchens. However, post-war changes in cooking habits, stoves with smaller cook tops, and sealed ovens made them obsolete. Both items were discontinued by the early 1950’s.
Here is an example of such a stove setup:
My beautiful picture
Apparently these deep wells had heavily insulated sides that I’m guessing would cause the heat to surround the pot and cook from the sides as well as the bottom. Additionally, some of them had control knobs would allow for a timed period of high heat after which the control would automatically switch to low for a long simmer.
From all the discussions I found related to deep well cookers, it seems pretty clear that they were generally used in these stoves with a deep well. But seeing Richards’s deep well insert inside the bale handle pot makes me wonder if the double-boiler type setup might provide much the same effect. And the way the bale handle attaches to the pot, such that it flares out which just-so-happens to create the perfect amount of clearance for the deep well insert, really makes me wonder if this wasn’t an intentional use.
I’d love to pick one up someday and try it out. My wife used a vintage (avocado green) crock pot for many years and now is in love with her Instant Pot. If the water bath works, adding this to our kitchen would great.
We’ve started relisting some of our products on Amazon.com. As we relist items there, we are adjusting our listings to accommodate the increases in risk and difficulty that selling on Amazon.com has acquired in the last few years.
We want to accommodate customers that prefer prime shipping and not having to buy from a small independent seller they don’t know (it’s ok, we don’t take it personally). But Amazon.com in their quest to be come everything to buyers, has become somewhat of a snake pit for sellers. We’ll do our best, but buying our products on Amazon.com might be a little less convenient and a little more expensive.
Consumer Reports, on the last inside page of every print magazine has the Selling It section that shows ridiculous advertisements. It has always been my favorite part of the magazine. For example.
I came across some eBay listings that fit nicely into this theme. See anything wrong with our first listing?
Which is it, new or used? It looks a bit used to me.
In our second listing, the seller decided that providing an example of a suggested use might help sell the square skillet.
And she nicely clarifies:
The USDA Choice Rib Eye and USDA Rubber Sirloin not included.
We’ve never been fond of the people who sell our products on eBay by drop-shipping them from Amazon. They do this by listing our products on eBay for higher then they sell for on Amazon.com, and then when an item sells on eBay, they place an order for it on Amazon.com. But they just cut and paste our product information, which misses any updates, and don’t provide any support. There were 160 different listings of our best selling parts on eBay at one point.
But now that we’ve delisted our products from Amazon.com, all of the listings for our products on eBay are gone. I can’t say we are disappointed.
While Amazon.com has taken over more and more of our overall sales over the last 10 years, it has become a more difficult and frustrating place to sell over that time.
But what really takes the cake is some serious customer abuse we’ve experienced over the last few weeks, that was made possible by some of the above Amazon.com policies. We’ve reported this to Amazon.com, in the hopes that they will take action, possibly by terminating the customers account. But we’ll still take the hit.
This has made us question selling on Amazon.com at all, which would be a bummer for everyone that likes to take advantage of free Prime shipping.
Our own website will be the only source for Revere Ware replacement parts for the time being.
We found a bunch of new old stock Revere Ware on eBay today. It isn’t cheap, but if you want to start with a brand new collection, you’ve hit the jackpot.
First up is this large very complete set:
For your consideration is NEW Real Vintage Revere Ware Copper Clad Pot set from pre 1968. I removed all items to unwrap, inspect and photograph. Not going to run across one of these again. This #1400 set titled ” KITCHEN JEWEL CHEST” contains a total of 18 items:
1 Quart Sauce Pan with Lid2 Quart Sauce Pan with Lid3 Quart Sauce Pan with Lid4 Quart Sauce Pan with Lid6 inch Skillet with Lid10 inch Skillet with Lid6 Cup Percolator (5 parts)Special DeLuxe Hanging Rack!The coffee percolator is beautiful and I’d never seen the hanging rack before. Being all new it’s a pleasure to see.This box has been in storage for 50 years and not in great shape but the pans are! Note the real storage patina on the bottoms. Was going to polish but a collector may want them in real original condition. I will ship in original packaging and add to it. Please ask any questions before bidding. If you want to see something in particular please let me know.
Next is a couple of 6″ skillets:
Lastly, a small sauce pan.
We often get requests for these, but we don’t carry them. Today there are two of them listed on eBay (one and two).
