Caloric 75 Ultraray Double oven Gasrange

[johan]

I just Reacently purchased a this stove but I struggle to find out how high it is and the weight of it. Im having it shipped to my home.
I need to know about the weight and hight for shipping quotes.
Hope anyone could help me, Also interested in knowing about people experiences with this stove advantages and drawbacks.
Johan

 

[goatfarmer]

No idea on an exact weight, but they are HEAVY! And also top heavy, make sure the shipper knows that.

 

[wayupnorth]

Friends had the same stove in Avocado but unfortunately was lost in a house fire. The upper Ultraray broiler was pretty neat.

 

[pulltostart]

Guesses

I've looked at some older GE catalogs for similar products, and hi/lo gas ranges can weigh from 280 to 340 pounds, it appears that the models that included an upper microwave oven tended to be heavier than the models with thermal ovens up top.  By way of height, the photo shows the range to be about the same height as the refrigerator.  A safe guess for that would be 65/66".

 

Maybe this will help with your shipping.

 

lawrence

 

[combo52]

Coloric Double Oven range

Should be around 65-68" high, the upper oven is just an oven the Ultaray broiler is in the top of the lower oven. The weight should be 350-400 pounds.

 

I have worked on many of these ranges, there is a whole building that had this range in NW Washington DC that was built around 1965-1966 named the Colonnade at 2800 New Mexico Ave. that I have worked in hundreds of times.

 

If you have any questions after you get it let me know.

 

John L.

 

[jgiotto]

Ultra ray broiler used 220?

My mother dumped our range 5 years ago - heartbroken! Repair Guy said he could no longer find replacement parts. Same color, coppertone. I now own the house and have a Romex line sticking out of the wall where the broiler would have been. My question is if that was a 220 line for any reason concerning the range or Ultra ray broiler, or is it just to run the lights and electric components on 110?

 

[combo52]

Ultra Ray Broiler On A Gas Range

Is gas heated, If you have a regular looking Romex line sticking out of the wall up high it was probably for the fan over the range.

 

If it is a heavy 8-6 Ga wire the house may have had or was wired for an electric range, Electric ranges in the US operate on 240 or 208 volts, there is actually no such thing as 220.

 

John L.

 

[jgiotto]

Thanks Combo52!

Added a somewhat weak photo of what I see, it's right under the cabinet. I noticed that had to cut away the bottom of that cabinet to accommodate the Caloric range too. so, no room for a hood.

 

[combo52]

Ultra Ray Broiler On A Gas Range

That looks like wiring left over for a hood etc, that would likely be just 120 volt circuit.

 

[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Actually that looks like something that should be sprayed with Black Flag or Raid bug spray...it's even got eyes.</span>

 

[bradfordwhite]

My Grandmother had almost that exact stove in the 70s.

It was always warm to the touch due to the standing pilot light and her house always had that faint smell of natural gas.

I like the comment "Friends had the same stove in Avocado but unfortunately was lost <span style="text-decoration: underline;">in a house fire"</span>

 

Really, can I take a guess how that started?

 

[wayupnorth]

No Keith, the fire was not caused by that stove. It was an electrical issue in a different part of the house.

 

[combo52]

Fire was probably caused by base-board electric heater

 

John L.

 

[helicaldrive]

What is an ultra ray broiler?

I once saw a commercial for that range, by Jinx Falkenberg . She oooed and goooed about the broiler’s capacity: 2 whole chickens, 25 lamb chops..... 36 hamburgers....

All I could think of was the houseful of greasy smoke all that meat would generate.

THEN she claimed “gas consumes smoke and spatter.” SURE it does, Jinx. LOL.

Anyway, what makes an ultra ray broiler different, and why are they no longer made?

 

[combo52]

Caloric ultra gas wall oven

This was a brand new caloric gas wall oven that I found up in Pennsylvania six or seven years ago not far from where it was made.

It’s currently residing in the museum kitchen.

Probably one of the only advantages of a gas broiler is it actually does consume most of the smoke and so forth from cooking things.

You can see when it first fires up it’s just blue but within a minute the whole thing is glowing red hot. You can also see the huge high quality broiler pan that caloric used which allowed you to do a great amount of food at one time quite evenly.

 

[bradfordwhite]

branding

Ultraray wasn't just a gimmicky 60s name for a big metal thing that spreads the flame in the oven to get more coverage. A feature that all gas ovens have.

No, it was a genius marketing scheme that only a 1960s advertising firm could come up with to rebrand "stinky appliance that will burn down your home and poison your family"

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LOL. John it's amazing how this dishwasher and stove recently made it all these years into a craigslist ad
yet
so many of those sooted up, standing pilot, roach den ranges above, let's call them a carbon-dioxide-emitting-heat-box-of-death, have been summarily ripped from the buildings they've contaminated over the years,
were sent to the scrap yard,
and replaced with.....something better, which is well,
anything.

 

[luxflairguy]

Keith! Please stop making so many assumptions! Ultra Ray broiler element were not a "feature every oven has." They were exclusive to Caloric ovens. I've had several gas stoves over the years that have both broiler drawers and "in oven" broilers. The broilers in the drawers are nothing more than the oven burner and the "in oven" broilers are very similar. None of then were Ultra Ray! Pay attention to what Combo said and you might learn something that you don't know!

 

[bradfordwhite]

Greg

I have seen and used gas stoves with both a broiler drawer and a broiler element/burner tube (thing) on the ceiling of the gas burning oven. I know what the job of each is.

I've seen how sooted up they get. Their job is to spread the flame. Call it any name you want.

 

[luxflairguy]

All hail the bully who has to always wants to be on top! You know nothing about nothing and because of you I will leave AW after many enjoyable years! It's the likes of you who take away the enjoyment of sites like this for so many! Enjoy your new "kingdom"! Greg Bushman