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This house was built in 1997 and has a Caloric stove that appears to be from that era, IMO. I didn't know that Raytheon was still using the Caloric name then. Is it a rebadge or does it have a Caloric design?
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Also, were Calorics of this design from the 70s, 80s, or 90s? Did they have pilot lights? This just like the one in the kitchen on Matlock in later years.
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a new Caloric gas range in 1992...it had spark ignition but I didn't like the design of the sparkers...they didn't always light correctly. Mother kept a long fireplace/grill lighter in a drawer by the stove...if it didn't light in 2 clicks she would light it. But that old stove was still working in 2014 when she got a new Frigidaire stainless with convection. Her Caloric looked kind of like the one in your second pictures except she had sealed burners and a digital clock and the oven had an infrared broiler...a feature only Caloric had at the time unless you stepped up to a fancy professional version. We went through 3 oven igniters in 22 years. The oven controller had gotten wonky and the board was as much as a new range so she just replaced the range. When I was shopping for her Caloric in 1992, the appliance store had just about every make on the showroom floor. I asked which one was the best built....he told me, "just open the oven doors of all the stoves and you will be able to tell which one is the best built". So I did....the Caloric was the heaviest with solid cast iron grates, sealed burners, and that infra red broiler. It was also the heaviest when I moved them around...so that's why we ended up with it.
My house had a bare-bones basic Caloric range in it when I bought it in 1998...it had standing pilots which came in handy for cooking when the power went out...but I also replaced it in 2009 with a Frigidaire 5 burner electronic ignition model. Sold it to someone a couple miles from me.
a new Caloric gas range in 1992...it had spark ignition but I didn't like the design of the sparkers...they didn't always light correctly. Mother kept a long fireplace/grill lighter in a drawer by the stove...if it didn't light in 2 clicks she would light it. But that old stove was still working in 2014 when she got a new Frigidaire stainless with convection. Her Caloric looked kind of like the one in your second pictures except she had sealed burners and a digital clock and the oven had an infrared broiler...a feature only Caloric had at the time unless you stepped up to a fancy professional version. We went through 3 oven igniters in 22 years. The oven controller had gotten wonky and the board was as much as a new range so she just replaced the range. When I was shopping for her Caloric in 1992, the appliance store had just about every make on the showroom floor. I asked which one was the best built....he told me, "just open the oven doors of all the stoves and you will be able to tell which one is the best built". So I did....the Caloric was the heaviest with solid cast iron grates, sealed burners, and that infra red broiler. It was also the heaviest when I moved them around...so that's why we ended up with it.
My house had a bare-bones basic Caloric range in it when I bought it in 1998...it had standing pilots which came in handy for cooking when the power went out...but I also replaced it in 2009 with a Frigidaire 5 burner electronic ignition model. Sold it to someone a couple miles from me.
