Stoves and Stuff

Okay, it's time to do a little update here in the fallish regions of NH! Actually we're having summer and fall--a lovely combination if you ask me!

Fairwood is getting different stoves! I say "different" and not "new" because they aren't new but they may as well be given the comparison between our present relics and what is soon to be. I began researching for these back in July and found a guy who has been in the restaurant business for 15 years and assured me that he would go "find" us a stove, recondition it, deliver it and give us a 6 month warranty on it. Furthermore, he gave us a deal on not one, but two stoves plus a new 20 qt. Hobart mixer, better known in the Fairwood kitchen as "Bridget.! To make a long story short, this guy and his confidant deal and offers fizzled by the wayside. First he said he'd picked up our stove and would bring it out next week. Then he said we needed to get the conversion kit to convert it to propane. Then he said he'd do it. Then after about 3 weeks of waiting he said he had been waiting for a week for UPS to bring the conversion kit.

Along about here or before, I began to smell a rat! And rat it was. Finally, no returned messages, no man, no stoves. Ugh. In the meantime, at the first prospect of having the new stoves arrive the next week, our eager beaver staff men, pulled out the old one in the kitchen, moved it to the summer kitchen to replace that one and left the old summer kitchen stove in the middle of that kitchen floor awaiting a long ride to its final resting place somewhere in MA. And there it has stayed for the past 6 weeks or so!

Bible School students arrived. Still no stove. Thankfully, those eager beaver staff men left one stove in operation!! By this time I'm beginning to feel a little nervous. Back to the drawing board I went to research and call and see what we might come up with in a week before the Feast. It appears that God has answered our many prayers because at this point we've found 2 other stoves and a replacement for Bridget and they are supposed to be delivered the middle of next week. Praise God! If you think of it, pray that nothing will hinder these stoves from coming and that they will be delivered quickly with no further trouble.

Both stoves are Vulcans. One is a 60" commercial range with 6 burners, a thermostat controlled grill and 2 ovens, one of which is convection! The other is a 36" with 6 burners and one oven. Come see them if you get a chance!