57 GE Liberator in Bethann Pink

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*Very* Pretty in Pink, and Solid Elements

First, that is a truly lovely Liberator, Greg, just lovely. I still don't love the pushbutton GE's, but can admire yours a work of industrial art, which it is.

Secondly, Kevan, America had a flirtation with European style solid units in the 1980s. Two friends of mine have Frigidaire-Electrolux ranges with solid units. Mary-Lynne is hoping her range will die soon, she hates the solid elements, but likes the oven with normal elements and self-clean. SuZann solved her solid element problem by building and moving out!

Solid elements were offered also by Jenn-Air, as a cartridge. I know of several local Jenn-Air's, but none of my friends have (or admit to) the solid element cartridge.

I still prefer a gas cooktop and love electric ovens.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
STOP or I'll shoot!

--blush--

Silly, ditzy big-mouthed me.

Two 220v elements in series are each getting 110v.
As we can see an adjustment in the coils' wattages and the wiring configuration via the switches makes it a *GO* anywhere.

Did I say unique to our voltage? I submit myself to the firing-squad. *LOL*

P.S. I also heard those metal hobs are disaster to cook with.
Slow to heat up, irresponsive. May as well be a frigid w.... nevermind.

Still, I may want to try it.
What do you think MaytagMom?
 
steve, don't and say you didn't

One reason the induction units have caught on so much faster over here than in the 'States is because everyone dislikes the solid elements.
Everyone.
Oh, I know - someone will now find something good to say about them, but this was the one and only thing my ex- and I could agree on when we designed our kitchen: No solid elements. They are slow, always slightly dirty, slow, hard to control, slow, waste energy, slow, and, well - did I mention slow?
Of course, those are only their good points.
Steve, you were not wrong about the American units having advantages based on the 220V system - these European units accomplish the same thing through the use of three resistance elements and lots more mechanical switches.
Even the modern energy regulators still are limited by their single-phase power supplies. What might look like a "second" leg to you in that picture is the power supply for the pilot light, or "Restwärme" light for the ceramic field.
 
o my paws and singed whiskers

...I should know better. Yes, that is true. Of course, I usually forgot to let the damned things cool down enough first, so the plastic aplicator melted onto their nasty little grooved surfaces.
Just knew somebody would find something good to say about them, I just knew it.
Oh, have to make one teensy-weensy exception myself. My espresso hotplate. That little solid element heats my espresso machine just perfectly - and it keeps the coffee warm afterwards for quite awhile.
Question: Just what is the rating on those wonderful burner elements? I, too, remember that front one being extremely fast. Would have to be over 2.5Kw, I should think. Do you know?
Again, a beautiful job!
 
Stevie baby

I go from zero to b!tch in 1.5 seconds.
(Haven't YOU noticed, my dear boi?) That can warm a w....
up real quick.

So to answer your question, ummm...

Slow to heat up, irresponsive. May as well be a frigid w.... nevermind.

Still, I may want to try it.
What do you think MaytagMom?

Naaah, I don't think so. Might ruin my reputation more than has already been done. LOL

I'm have never been considered frigid, unless it's in <25 below weather.

Carry on wayward son. ;-)
 
ooooh We are SO much alike!

Said: I go from zero to b!tch in 1.5 seconds.

Dear, a b**ch is simply a woman with an opinion.
I have been called a woman with an opinion repeatedly.........

See, perhaps we ARE mirror images one of the other.

And I stll can't get enought of that GAWGEOUS PANK liberator.
 
Disks

The secret to successful results with solid disk burners is to set the heat where you want to cook, in the intial start up.

Slower but fantastic even results in cooking.

So many are in such a hurry.

You must remember I used to chop wood before I could cook. Electricity is still a marvel and miracle to me. Using different hobs is like learning different dance steps. You may have a favorite, but they all are fun.

There is a lament, "Nothing tastes like it used to."

The bottom line: when you got off work at 5:30 and eat at 6:15, nothing is ever going to taste like it used to.

Slow and Tender, slow and tender, slow and tender.

There are many things one can do to distract from seems interminable wait periods.

Perhaps, something slow and tender?

Kelly
 
Great Desire

No wonder so few of us had a weight problem. You had to really WANT to cook.

I hated chopping wood, most, of all the chores I had to do. Once, I chopped my hand, on purpose, to get out of chopping wood. I was 10 and it didn't take long to figure out I couldn't chop my hand everytime it was my turn. This was long before I knew anything about sporting wood. I digress. Anyone here surprised?

I enjoyed cooking with a wood stove. Every heat you wanted was ready and waiting. You just moved the pan further away from the fire box to get lower heat. I never found a cookbook, with illustrated cooking positions.

It wasn't the chores or the wood. It was that we poor and everyone knew it.
I was embarrassed everytime the school bus pulled up in front of our house. Every experience, in school continued to draw camparisons about my status and the other kids.
My friends were the other poor kids and the ones who moved from other places. The unwanted.
There we 27 kids in my class and it remained a static number until we went to high school in a bigger town. Our school was grades 1 - 8.
Kids are cruel because they don't know any better. The bad part is they repeat what they hear their parents say and that, is harder to walk away from.
Add to that, I was a fledging queer and didn't know it, loved appliances and cooking, made my father's stomach turn, got daily beatings when I was caught doing anything housewifish. The coup de grace was that everywhere I went and everyone who came to our house got grilled on the nuances of their washing machine.
I studied the mannerism, speech patterns and behaviors of every one around who I wanted to be like. I wanted to have manners, a vocabulary and my greatest desire was a house with a thermostat on the wall!
When I went to college, I tasted my first avocado, mushroom, seafood and was exposed to way of life I could never have imagined.
I have used many vehicles to support myself, but it was secondary to seeing the uniquness in each person I met and giving them the insight to see it and tools to nourish it. I helped them to rejoice in the individual uniqueness of who they were. Teaching brought me 230 new opportunities with each new year,
It took me 53 years to acknowledge I could participate as well. The honesty and healing, for me began and three years later,
I cannot begin to express how much I am enjoying life.
I finally found love, but to do it, I had to love me first, since that's where it resides.

Now do you begin to grasp what you all mean to me?

Kelly
 
lucky us

Kelly, That make us the lucky ones.
I had the great good luck to have parents who thought my first love was the perfect man for me. When he was killed, they wept with me.
I had friends throughout school who went through similar experiences, beatings, public embarrasment - one poor guy even got put into Lairico (a really horrid juvenille deliquent center, even by the standards of those days) by his parents for being gay.
I don't know why we are the flavour of the day for the christian world to hate, but it takes a tremendous amount of courage and strength to rise up and claim your rights.
Good for you!
Glad you're here!
ps: I also grilled all my parent's friends on their machines. You name it, I wanted to know all about it. One kind rancher let me spend weekends at his place playing with all the stuff in the milk shed, the kitchen and the washing room.
Heaven!
Wasn't 'till I was in my 30's that I realized just how unusual such tolerance was.
 
Tolerance

As a child, I held a belief I would see the end of racism in America. No one I knew had any issues, it was our parents generation. Image my dismay to learn the truth.
I have found the world, away from my home to be gracious. It was always me who so intlerant of myself.
This kinder gentler incarnation has been a pleasure. It has been like the Wizard of Oz when the film changed from black and white to color.
Kelly

Oddly enough, when I divorced and came out, I expected to be disowned. My father said he loved me and wanted me to be happy. It didn't erase the history but opened the door to accepting healing. And I still wonder who the aliens are that have inhabited my newly nice parents.
 
Reading Difficulty

I know that old adage about quitting when I needed glasses and evidently I went a little too far. I just correctly read the "chomp" wood in toggles post. As Emily Latilla would have said, "Oh my! That's different."

Yes toggles, it is always prudent to chomp, before cooking. Catching a hard object in the beaters can damage the mixer and Lord only knows how hard those vintage parts are to find.

Kelly
 
Greg,
Your GE is beautiful!!!!
I can't get over how great it looks in your kitchen!
Also, the wires really made me dizzy looking at them! It is amazing.
I bet you are cooking your Mom a wonderful 4 course meal on her special day tomorrow. :)
Nah, don't dirty your nice stove. Order a pizza for her or something. :)
Thanks for the pictures!
Brent
 

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