A nice example of a Great British Cooker.....

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Hey Guys

This has appeared in the warehouse of our local BHF. I grew up with the older Brushed Stainless/Black version. The serial# starts 82 06 so Im guessing it might be June 82. Ours was brought in Oct 76.

Seamus

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Sadly.....

We wont be giving it a home- no space and I dont wanna start with cookers!!!!!

Anyone else fancy a trip to Dover lol.........
 
Tricity

Great to see a truly classic British Cooker on here Seamus. Oh it brings back the memories of our mams well solid TI Creda Carefree or was it a Topline, you know the one i'm on about the one with the grill & combined top oven above the hob, loved that cooker.
 
interesting!

I never knew that these heat coil thingies were sold over here. I thought they were a purely American thing.
From what I had seen (and that is very little, one old GE oven actually) they never seem to fully make contact with the pots, somehow they always seem warped a bit (thus dissipating their heat to any place but the food in the pots).
Could be I had seen lower quality ones though....
Yet I like the concept: Pull them out of their sockets, take out the spill pan beneath and put all into the DW, how easy is that!
 
Spirals

Hi Joe

They were the most popular type of hob over here from the 60s to the 80s- the 1st major difference between UK and Euro cookers....

The 2nd is the oven- the main oven on this and 99% of UK built pre fan assisted ovens have elements behind the side panels as opposed to the top and bottom. Much better heat distribution(hotter at the top, but you can still cook on more than 1 shrlf unlike top and bottom heat).

Seamus
 
Questions.....

Pete

Theres no drip pans- these have a slide out drip tray -well 2 actually, the lower one is the roof of the top oven/grill.

Joe

It is indeed the Thorn Logo- at this time Tricity, Kenwood and Bendix were all part of Thorn EMI.

Also Im considering getting this for Mum and selling her modern Tricity Bendix slot in...............If she agrees lol!

Seamus
 
Those open ring type elements were the norm here in Ireland too. They were extremely effective and much more controllable than the solid hotplate type elements that were found on continental cookers of the same era.

They remained popular until cermaic (glass-topped) hobs became common place in the late 80s / early 1990s.

The solid-hob type cookers were always disliked because the retain heat for too long. So the elements tend to be extremly uncontrollable. You end up with a heating effect that is more like an electric version of an AGA range cooker.
 
Old early 80s advert for electric cooking :)

Here's an old advert from around 1984 from Ireland's old electrical utility, ESB.

It was to promote the general concept of electric cooking. At the time the power company ran all sorts of generic adverts for "Dry Electric" "Cook Electric" "Heat Electric" "Dishwash Electric" "Shower Electric" etc..

They had a retail chain called Shop Electric, which I think was co-branded with the UK utilities too at the time. It was like a shared brand operated by a lot of different local power companies in the UK as well as the ESB in Ireland.

The video contains lots of nice video footage of those old 1980s era cookers in use and a rather crude 1980s attempt at being multicultural!

 
i used to have a tricity bendix cooker in my last house (which was in 2006)
it was lovley and it cooked really well too, the ceramic on the hobs smashed and the cooker droped dead, if it was still working i wouldve brought it with me
 
That is narrow

Yes, SeamusUK, they dont make any that narrow in America. An "apartment" size stove is 20"/about 48 mm, is the absolute smallest range here and they are hard to find as the majority are 30"/ about 55 mm. and up. It is interesting to see how many nice features they can fit in a small package. Where our standard stoves only have one big oven. Of course, the higher the price, the more deluxe features you can get.
 
Don't Know If It's Landlords Being Cheap

But here in NYC it is becoming more common for replacement ranges in apartments to be regular or slightly smaller than the "tiny" thing that used to be there.

One says "cheap" because since most it seems as with dishwashers and "compact" washing machines smaller seems to cost more than full size.
 
tricity

Hi seamus-and everbody else of course.

Do they stock many big aplliances at the bhf? and what kind of prices they go for.

I live in hackney east london,would it be worth a quick whizz down the motorway?

I do like the presidents tho.I recently picked up a moffat fiesta,but cried when I found the rotiss and the temp probe missing,and apart from the clock and timer the monster works well.lucky enough the other day to get complete rotiss kit and been doing sumersaults round the kitchen alday watching the chickens go round,I know I know I need to get out more! but the smell while cooking,,Now need to try and locate aroast o probe,try and get the clock working,and I will be a happy bunny....for a whilw anyway....pete
 

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