It was revolutionary when it debuted at the New York World's Fair in 1939. I think it was the first line of stainless steel cookware with copper bottoms.
I have a bunch of pieces, and other than I hardly ever use the frypans, I love this stuff.
I made a 16 bean soup in my heavy cash iron and porcelan Le Creuset dutch oven and transfered it to a tall Revere Ware sauce pan and I was enjoying how modern it still looks after all of these years.
It's much better made than Farberware from the 1940's/1950's.
As an amateur cook...
Le Crueset is my choice of pots and pans.
and 16 beans?
http://saffronhut.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-is-more-16-bean-adai.html
Woody
16 bean is a 1 lb package of 16 different kinds of beans and legumes (peas). You soak 'em and make soup out of them.
I like soup in the cold winter season.
As far as the copper bottoms, I don't go crazy trying to keep them perfect since I bought them second hand and there's plenty of permanent staining to the copper.
It's just you can fill a Revere Ware saucepan with leftover soup and the lid fits tight enough to keep in the fridge until you take it out to heat it up in the same pan.
I have Swiss Diamond and Le Creuset for regular day to day cooking, but I still prefer the old Revere Ware sauce pans and larger soup pots.
I grew up
with Revere ware. Not a full set, certainly -- my mom used a cast iron skillet, as I do -- but I believe my parents had several pieces, including a coffee percolator. "Modern" in its day, or at least up-to-date and functional -- knowing my parents, the price was not too great. I have none of it myself . . .
Glad to know it's still around. Sixty years is a long time for something to remain current -- isn't it ? With the acceleration of change that is taken as normal, some things last a long time. I enjoy Triscuit crackers, as my mother did. Comet cleanser -- Windex. Are we so habit-bound ? Is it a Baby Boomer phenomenon ? Certain things just got to a point of perfection ?
The only thing, SDR
is that if you or anyone else here wants to try some Revere Ware, I strongly suggest you don't buy any of the new pieces available. They're much lighter weight and the handles and knobs are no longer quality bakelite...they're now shiny plastic.
You can find vintage pieces are thrift stores all over the place because they were best sellers in their day.
The pieces I use the most are the
* sauce pans with lids
* large dutch oven/soup pot for making soup and especially for boiling pasta
* the closed tea kettle is nifty, if you can find one in good condition
It is good, but there is better
barrymlps,
I agree that the Revere Ware is well designed and nearly "bullet proof". My mother gave me her set when I left home and I used it for years before replacing it with the Bjorn Dahlström, Dahlstrom 98 cookware for Hackman. I gave my fiancee a complete set of Hackman Party cookware to replace her cookware and I use a Timo Sarpaneva, Sarpaneva cast iron pot for Iittala.
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