Stacy That sounds yummy! As long as you started the recipe suggestions, here's mine. I'm sure ham could be substituted for the spam here, It wouldn't taste quite the same though. Spam Hotdish 3 cups cooked noodles 1 chopped onion 1 can spam cut into bite size squares 1 cup American cheese, chopped 1 cup cream of chicken soup 1 cup milk Mix all the crap together and bake at 300 for 1 hour. You just can't beat small town cooking. K

But the red is soooo beautiful!!!! I'd LOVE to have a red Bluestar (new or used). But unfortunately, all I have room for is a 30".

That is probably true, however, if I were you I would be glad that you have the cast iron and not the porcelin. The cast iron (after properly seasoned) will give you years of trouble free service. They cook better in my opinion too. The porcelin on the other hand can, and most likely will, chip in time. When it does, then you got a real problem. When cast iron and porcelin heat up and cool down, they have different expansion and contraction rates, so consequently the porcelin cracking is inevitable and I am sure that is why they discontinued the use of it. Just out of curiousity, didn't they have one on the floor for you to look at and notice the material the grates were made of? Every Sam's I have been to has the B&C model on the floor. If they did, why would you want the porcelin grates if you knew it came with cast iron? Unless you were jsut trying to get them on a technicality, just wondering.

Annie, It's too bad the timing isn't good. But I know you will have more than enough to do that week. Riverrat, I understand that he is a really wonderful person also. I read that he grows a lot of his own food and raises chickens and livestock to use in his restaurants. Karen