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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-25-2009 11:07 AM

quote: Monte L Fullmer
I'm an old MANLEY fan... Now stuck with Cretor units...

We had 2 Manleys in a row (one from 1940, one from 1979) before getting our Cretors Diplomat about 15 years ago or so. What don't you like about the Cretors?

For a while during the last gasps of our last Manley we had a small Gold Medal machine that we used for an emergency backup. I finally sold that to a friend a while ago. I liked it and it was a good robust machine, but it wasn't really suited for theatre use -- too small, plus it doesn't have the flow-thru hot-air blowers like the big machine does.

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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted 06-25-2009 02:24 PM

Course, with me working on poppers: Have you ever seen the guts of a Manley kettle? They used a very thick plate aluminum which distributed the heat over the entire kettle, whereas Cretors with their three element setup on a Diplomat is more localized - like a burner on a stove - with the iron of the kettle only heating up where the elements are located.

You throw water in a Manley the whole thing would bubble when it was boiling, and you do that in a Cretors when you're doing your "Inside Kettle Cleaner". and you see where the elements are located with the "bubble rings" when it's boiling.

And even though the kettle pan is using nickle plated steel, the heat isn't being distributed evenly across the entire pan.

Manleys would actually turn the coconut oil clear and thin as water when full hot and would not even scorch the oil.

You knew you had a hot kettle then and the popcorn would be very fluffy being fully cooked.

..."Dang, I miss Manleys..."

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