Random Retro Riffraff #2: The Redi-Oven
I was all set to laugh when I first saw this. Not in a mean way, just in that “ho ho those adorable retro folks, reheating their pickled meatloaf sandwiches in a contraption that looks like a giant antique camera used to photograph the dead” kind of way.
But I must be reading way too much vintage ad copy these days, because by the time I finished with this, the Redi-Oven had kind of won me over:
Maybe watching Pretty in Pink for the 346th time tonight has done to my brain what a radiator does to a stick of butter, but this is starting to make all kinds of sense. Why don’t they make Redi-Ovens anymore? There are TOTALLY times when I’d want to bake biscuits right at the table. Actually, with a just little planning, I could probably cook an entire five-course meal for a party of eight in the Redi-Oven without ever once darting off to the kitchen during a critical juncture in a Game of Thrones debate.* With the gleaming chrome finish, it could even double as a centerpiece, which saves me the 45 minutes I’d normally spend making dogwood branches in a galvanized bucket look nothing like the picture in Real Simple.
That’s it. I’m starting a campaign to bring these back. Along with “escalloped chicken & noodles.”
*Team Lannister. Except Joffrey.
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I find myself intrigued by the random legs with big rubber boots on them on the Gorton’s package. Then again, maybe those are candles, now that I’m taking another look? But if you’re eating a TV dinner (remember when we called them those?) you probably don’t have candles to go with it. I’m so confused.
Yeah, what ARE those? I think you’re right; they’re candles. Now I’m getting this sad little picture of some 18-year-old newlyweds in 1967, lighting yellow penny candles in their dank little third-floor walkup while the Filet of Sole TV dinners reheat in the Redi-Oven they got as a wedding gift.
Wow, that is sad, lol!
I lived in an apartment that didn’t have a stove and I used a roaster oven for everything. It’s too big and ugly for table-top cooking and centerpiece use, but it did the job.
And by the way, it’s Team Arya/Tyrion, because they better be the two that survive this exercise in torture.
I’m Team Lannister mostly because of Tyrion. And Jaime. And I totally crush on Lena Headey so I can’t bring myself to hate Cersei either. Even Tywin is pretty damn awesome in the series (because: CHARLES DANCE), though not so much in the books. So yeah. . .hear me roar.
I love Tyrion. And after Jamie’s horrible circumstances, I started to like him too. And Lena Headey I’ve loved since The Sarah Conner Chronicles. But I hold Arya near and dear to my heart because that little girl is amazing. I just want her and Tyrion to be in the group of survivors. That’s all I’m asking.