Cannon A150 Gas Cooker

[tomturbomatic]

I was expecting the leaves to be blown off the bush behind the bag.

Davey, gas lights have become very expensive to operate. Even in the 60s, our gas lantern, which came off the pipe before the meter was billed at several dollars a month. The last I heard they were more than a dollar a day. In the 70s, there was a firm that would wire gas yard lights for electricity because of the cost increase of natural gas and even supply bulbs that looked like gas mantles.

 

[vacbear58]

Did someone say "Honey Mink"

This was an unusual colour for the time.

From the middle to late 1950s, whilst most applainces were white or cream, it was not that unusual to find appliances in bright colours - witness some of the photos where have been posted on here of Servis Supertwins etc. From about the turn of the 1960s the trend was very much for all white appliances so this was very advanced for the time - 1968. I can only think of one manufacturer, Tricity (President and Contressa De Luxe cookers), who did anything other than white. A few more in the 1970s (again mainly cookers with black or S/S doors) but it was, bt and large, not until the turn of the 1980s that coloured appliances began to appear.

Al

 

[davey7]

Definitely minky! Rather a distinctive color.

Yeah, a lot of condo converters didn't get permission from Peoples Gas to put in the lights and had to rip them out. Gas is comparatively cheap in Chicago, but certainly not free.

 

[combo52]

Interesting Gas Range

I sure it would work but I could not imagine using that thing today, the cleaning of a gas cook-top is bad enough but that grille and a non-self cleaning oven to add insult to injury.

 

Gas lighting is the only thing that makes incandescent lighting look efficient and a compact fluorescent or LED light is probably 30-50 times more efficient. Even back in the day when electricity was coming into use it was cheaper to use than inefficient gas lighting, which is one of many reasons that gas lights disappeared so fast, they only made a revival because of gas company marketing.

 

[chestermikeuk]

John - How very dare You...Lol

You make it sound like a dinosaur!!, I`ve actually used it and its a great cooker, spilages and grime are the results of a bad cook, cleaning a hot surface after spillages are easy, same with the oven - but time also permits...

The salamander like grill is very hot and the wire baffle at the front actually wraps the flame and air currents around and back on itself and throws it back into the middle which expands and raises the heat source!!

The spillage trays should be on cookers of today even rangemaster cookers dont produce anything like this, its far easier to clean than a GE or Wolf!!

Rob, congrats on getting this beauty working and producing great food, although its helps you are a great baker and enjoy cooking, on a small note my mum used one of these at her job as housekeeper to a large parish kitchen for 30 years and the cooker is still going strong today!!

My Great Aunt Bessie who is 97 still cooks on a gas cooker and has just produced her 12 Christmas cakes for all the family recently,

keep using them I say!!

 

[ricky5050]

Great cooker

Hi Rob that's a great cooker, I use a 1961 new world as my only cooker and its my first full gas one I love it, growing up with fan ovens which main benefit are even temperature top and bottom, I love the older gas ovens for the fact they're hotter at top and cooler at bottom , ideal for roast potatoes or Yorkshire puddings at top, meat in middle and stuffing etc at bottom , I bought some dial oven thermometers to check which shelf is what temperature. These ovens are also very quick heating I very rarely PRE heat.

Cleaning is okay I cover removable roof panel in foil and lay a piece in oven bottom.

A question to those who are reading this if I may ? My door seal is fraying, it's probably toxic asbestos , and I concerned that every time I open the door I may get a waft of lethal fibres !

Any idea where new ones can be sourced ?

Cheers Richard

 

[ricky5050]

Door seal

Door seal

 

[fido]

You really need to see how the door seal is attached to know what to use as a replacement. If it is just a simple rope that is clamped in some way you could buy the glass fibre rope used for sealing the parts of woodburning stoves, AGAs etc.

 

[hoovermatic]

I rented a flat in Luton years ago and it had that same cooker, not is such fabulous condition but such a pleasure to use. It is only when you use a great stove that you realise what rubbish you have put up with in the past!! Always loved those grills and the spill bowl things that just lift right out and as you say, straight into the DW. What a great find!

 

[tomturbomatic]

The power of acetylene

car blew up when trunk release ignited leaking acetylene vapors from plumber's equipment

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2013/01/29/dnt-ma-trunk-remote-car-explosion.wbz

 

[kb0nes]

The power of acetylene

Tom

Holy @$&%!! I wonder if her pupils are always that big of if she is still freaked out from witnessing that? Very thankful that nobody was close enough to the car to be harmed!

It is a very high energy fuel gas. It is amazing that the concentration was in the right range to allow ignition from what must have been a small spark.

The oxygen acetylene bombs on Youtube are devastating, of course they have the added oxygen to accelerate things.

Not something wise to take lightly...

 

[aquarius1984]

Ricky

Loving that New World!!
DOnt worry about the Asbestos thing - its merely a rope as suggested and im sure you can still get them online although I have seen them I cant remember where.

I was actually rather worried about the gas usage on the oven but when I investigated I realised the insulation inside the Cannon is actually thicker and beefier than the Creda it replaced which ironically is thicker than the modern Kenwood my parents scrapped in favour of split units.

Im so loving cooking again itsamazing just how miserable inefficient equipment made it before.

JOHN,

As pointed out the spill trays make cleaning this beast easier than wiping/scrubbing/scraping/degreasing and desmearing any glass induction top/ceramic hob could ever be.
My parents have just opted for a black glass induction hob and on christmas day I just expected to wipe it over with hot soapy water and a dishcloth. How wrong was I???

Grease smeared all over it, hot soapy water was no where near enough and as it turned out it takes a degreasing spray, clean cloth, elbow grease and a final buffing up.

All in all it took my Mum the best part of 8 or 9 minutes - the time it takes me to load the DW, fill a sink of hot bleachy water and wipe over my entire kitchen.

The Cannon has self cleaning oven side panels and roof although the bottom is enamelled but its very thick very smooth enamel and only ever requires a wipe over with a dishcloth although I have occasionally sprayed it with oven cleaner and wiped it off. No big issue there. Took me all of 3 minutes.
has required this once in 3 months.

I cant see its future being more than perhaps ten years at most so Il enjoy it while I can and while it works safely, God knows il be gutted the day I have to scrap it.

 

[vacbear58]

Induction

Rob

tell your Mum to invest in some Hob Brite, its brilliant for cleaning induction hobs, with minimal rubbing brings it up beautifully clean with no smearing.

Al

 

[aquarius1984]

Al,

Thanks for the reccomendation - had naturally assumed this product to be a cream cleaner spin off product at twice the price for half the product kinda thing but il reccomend it. Its probably cheaper than the Neff reccomended spray shes using.

Its not ofetn it does get filthy but Dad did say they found hot soapy water on a daily basis just streaks and smears. Possibly due to the salt content in WUL hence the need for the spray.

Cheers

rob

 

[norgeway]

Salamander type broiler!

I like that idea! If its good enough for the best restaurants, it surely would work well in a home range!