Combination gas/kerosene kitchen stoves.

[filter-flo_rob]

Good morning all,

Sorry I haven't been chatty on this group lately -- that goes "double" for all the friends I have made on this group as well. Being a police officer and firefighter in addition to a librarian is taking up quite a bit (OK MOST) of my time.

Anywayze ... I have a question about these aforementioned stoves. When I was a kid, my grandparents had a honkin' big stove in the kitchen ... the RHS had four gas burners, and the LHS had four cast iron lids (one iof them had three sections to it (jeez ... the detail one remembers as a kid))that one had to use a lifter to open. There were two kerosene burners on the far LHS with controls on the side of the stove.

My question is two-fold:
1)I want one.
2)Is there a comprehensive website or book that has designs of these. I "think" this stove was mfg. by Glenwood possibly 1951 to 1953. I remember the kool space-age knobs that turned the gas on. Doing a general website yields a bunch of garbage (If they only consulted a catalog librarian first ... we put chaos into order ... LOL ... I'm just waiting for RON to comment on that one ... )

Thanks for your help.

It's nice to see this group still has lots of action and discussion.

Enjoy the day all.

Filter Flo Rob.

 

[iheartmaytag]

There is actually an antique store on South Broadway here in town "Larry's Antiques" that has one of these sitting outside on his sidewalk.

I only noticed it becuse my mother will say when we drive by, "We had one of those when I was a kid." It has a big glass jar on the side that is filled with Kerosene and you turn it upside down when you want to cook. The oven appeared to be wood fired.

The lady that lives across the street from us was telling that her mother had one of these too when she was little. The boy at the station sold her white gas instead of kerosene and it blew up on her. She spent over a year in the hospital from the burns.

 

[filter-flo_rob]

Hello sir,

Thank you for your reply.

That "glass jar" was replaced with an automatic pump in the late 50s? My grandfather had a 55 gallon drum of kerosene in the basement from which the kerosene was pumped (geez, I can still hear the sound of that pump kicking-in, lol!). This one had a gas oven. Come to think of it, I can't remember if there was an oven on the kerosene side -- I believe it may have been storage for pots, pans and things of the like. (?)

OMIGAWD iheartmaytag, white gas instead of kerosene? She was lucky to be alive, as do those glass bottles hold five gallons of kerosene?

Do you remember the brand name? I seem to recall that it had white enamel folding covers that went over the gas burners when not in use.

'good day.

Rob.

 

[laundromat]

Chambers, Monarch and Jewell made ranges that could use gas,kerosene,coal and/or wood. Each brand was different in that one was better at one type of fuel than the other.The Chambers ranges ( Heavy as Hell porcelain on cast iron bodies!!!)were great using gas or wood . whereas the Monarchs were better using coal instead of wood in place of gas.Some were also available in electric as well as gas but most of the owners prefered gas over electric even though they had to have their LP gas refilled on a usual weekly basis.I ahve seen many of them recently on EBAY

 

[maytagbear]

A distant cousin of mine

had a Monarch Wood/Electric. She preferred wood for the oven, but almost always used the electric cooktop.

Frankly, I'd be petrified of a kerosene stove. Yes, kerosene has a higher flash point than gasoline, but still....

I like gas cooking, but I don't like older gas stoves.

Good to see you, Rob!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch2]

Gasoline stove anyone?

Interesting that wood-burning cook stoves were converted to gas, then laqter in time gas-burning stoves were "electrified" to use electricty.

http://www.homesteadstoves.com/Stoves%20for%20Sale.htm

 

[polkanut]

Caloric also sold gas/wood combos. The elderly couple that lived next to our family had one that they brought with them when they moved to town from their farm. The oven was gas fired, it had a very small firebox, and only 2 lids on the wood side. They used the wood part to heat the main floor, and would open the door going upstairs which was next to it to let some heat escape up and keep a little heat up there too.

 

[filter-flo_rob]

Good morning.

Thank you all for your assistance.
In doing research from the brand names you have given me, I have decided that the stove in question is a Monarch-Paramount stove.
I did a search and found this website:

http://www.monarchrange.com/paramount/index.htm

Although I did not find the exact model, many had similar features: I could find none that had 4 gas burners on the RHS and 4 lids/2oil heating units on the LHS. They sold something called the "blue flame sleeve type oil burner" that would replace the wood/coal section of the stove.

I will say the knobs are EXACTLY like this:

http://www.monarchrange.com/paramount/ParamountGasPlate_50s.pdf

good day.

Rob.

 

[kenmore58]

Rob,

What can I say? I guess the only thing that comes to mind is, "GO MODERN, GO GAS -- GO BOOM!!"

Maybe it's just me, but even though I love cooking with gas and it was one of the major factors in deciding to buy the house that I did, I feel much safer with the modern one I use.

Just my two cents.

Later.

Ron