RIreP Tappan

The oven was from 1957. It was a novelty piece. It was interesting.

It was the IT thing in 1957 and to my knowledge the exact same model is in Graceland to this day. It had a pull out drawer with four electric burners and a rotisserie. Look how elegant she is just for owning it!

Now, I am not a snob about old appliances. I love to cook, however, and I need them to work. The Tappan, as we called it because that's what it was, would either cook things way, way too fast, or uneven. Two of the four burners worked. One of the others would work when it felt like it and if you tried to make it work, it would shock you. My niece and I did pull off one amazing Thanksgiving dinner with the Tappan in 2019. I slow cooked the turkey on the grill outside. 

We took time off work for a staycation over the holidays in 2019. I had a fridge full of food and was trying to embrace the Tappan after the Thanksgiving success. On December 28, 2019, while preheating, the Tappan started popping and breathing fire! Mauricio ran to the breaker box and flipped it off. We freaked out, then decided to drive to the nearest store to buy a stove. There we found out that appliances are rarely purchased off the shelf. We would have to wait 10 - 14 days to have a new oven delivered.

I got really good at cooking on the grill and using the side burner I had never used before. I even made an amazing carbonara using the grill and have never been able to replicate it!

While we waited for the new oven, we had to decide what to do with the Tappan. We listed it on FB marketplace for free and within a day a couple that was building an outdoor retro kitchen picked it up. He thought he could fix it and she only cared about keeping things warm on a burner. So actually, the Tappan is Resting In rePurpose. My kind of happy ending!

That thing was wide and left a big ol empty spot.