5/28/05 POD GE Range

[stainfighter]

Brings back memories. My grandfather had a range with a plug in area and that was the plug used to plug in the percolator. More recently, as an Innkeeper, the inn kitchen had an avocado green GE double oven range and it was a workhorse. Loved the convenience of the smaller side oven and the space on top to put things on straight out of the oven. It had push button keys for the burners. Don't know what vintage it was and we are (thankfully!) no longer Innkeepers.

 

[pulltostart]

These 40-inch electric ranges (esp. GE) are all over Ebay. Its really a shame that they're not that popular. The 40-inch width doesn't fit into todays homes any more, and the 5-button switches (as opposed to the rotary, inifite heat switches) are not well-liked. But nonetheless this is a fantastic-looking piece of equipment!

Lawrence

 

[Jetaway]

Yummy

There is just something about a high-cholosterol dinner cooked in a pink stove.........Green Bean Casserole anyone?

 

[toggleswitch]

I actually used the fixed heat system on a compact (20" -50cm)GE while visiting Florida.

Not awful. Pobably worked well with flimsy bottomed pots of the era..

The heat was constant not cycling. Two coils per surface unit. Each got 220/110 or one of each and they were connected in series an/or parallel to derive varous wattages/heats.

the one I used was labeled:
(higher number is lower heat..go figure)

HI
2 (2nd from max?)
3 (3rd from max?)
SIMMER
LO
WARM
OFF

 

[duetboy]

Mom's GE Cooktop

I guess I need to get a digital camera and take a picture of Mom's old drop in (?) cook top, in pink, nonetheless. When She and Dad moved to Kansas from Nebraska, they built a "basement" house. All of us kids could boast tha we were taller than our house! (It only stuck out of the ground 3') Anyhow, her GE drop in sits in the corner of the kitchen downstairs. The "control panel" is hooked via romex to the underside of the drop in and is located about a foot away, built in to the front of the cabinetry.

When they eventually got the $$, they built the "upstairs" and the downstairs (3 bed, 1 bath, living room, dining room, kitchen) were just extra space. However that extra kitchen became the canning kitchen. That cooktop was a workhorse and still is. So is the GE built-in oven with built in rotisserie (SP?)

Yep, I need to get pictures. Sorry for the rambling.

duetboy

aka jeff

 

[pulltostart]

Remote Control

I had an aunt who built a new home in rural Alabama in 1959, and she had built-in appliances - including the cooktop you're talking about. I thought that was soooo cool. Last year I bought one of those on Ebay, mine is stainless steel, and is still boxed up in the basement. I'm not sure what I'll ever do with it, but that baby's mine! There is a matching (vintage) stainless steel wall oven for sale right now, which I'm "mulling over". Its in NY and I'm in AL...do I really want it that badly? LOL

Lordy, Lordy, the things we take with us from our youth into our adulthood.

Lawrence