Cooking With "Flair"

[jetaction]

On Friday I picked up a Frigidaire Custom Imperial Flair range. Not sure where this will end up, but better than the crusher right? I will work on detailing it and wiping it off and it should be mint. I think I am missing one knob for it, and I would love to find the owners manual. Any help on either would be greatly appreciated. Tried to post a pic twice, but it was too big for the capacity. Very fun range but I have tried to wiggle my nose several times but the roast won't come out by itself, I will keep trying!

 

[gansky1]

Don - what is the model number of your range? Look under the right front burner for the model/serial tag.

Try saving the pictures to a file in your computer first, then posting from that. Usually your photo program will ask you what quality level you want to save them at (1 through 10) choose like 5-6 or so and it will reduce the file size that you're trying to upload.

Can't wait to see it - Greg

 

[tlee618]

Don I sure hope that you can get the pictures posted, can't wait to see this beauty. Is it a 40"?? Terry

 

[Kevinpreston3]

Jet that is SO cool....

Congrats on that! I LOVE Flair ovens. So glad you saved it. It's amazing you can still get those around for next to nothing, and they are really neat.

Please inform us if you get a chance to fire it up and cook on it. I am dying to know what they cook like.

 

[gansky1]

Here's the picture Don sent me -

 

[gansky1]

RCIB645 - about 1962

 

[Unimatic1140]

Very nice Don, wow its beautiful! Love the turquoise dial.

It must have been a monster to move!

 

[veg-o-matic]

Oooooooh!

This would be the ONLY reason I'd ever switch to electricity for cooking!

Sort of on the same track; didn't Kenmore have a range with the pullout burners? Maybe around late '60s?

veg, who cooks with gas, just like Julia Meade says I should!

 

[toggleswitch]

Veg-

I'm not sure if taking Beano will bring you to the point where there is no gas...

But work with a fast, cool, quick easy-to-clean glass/ceran cook-top and you just might switch and be converted.

http://www.sbshopnow.com/templates/beano_shopnow.asp?sbid=SBSNA1CS0000009F

 

[agiflow]

Oooooooh!

Veg,...yes KM did have this range also. One of my closest friends mom had this same style range up until about the late eighties when they redesigned their kitchen.

They had mostly KM appliances. They did have a two door top freezer harvest gold GM Frigidaire though.

 

[jetaction]

Wow, a pic!!

I didn't even know Greg posted a pic, thank you so much. It wasn't bad to move, there were five of us. As always, so much much of the fun for me is the trying to figure out all the ins and outs of the mechanics and features. Once I locate an owners manual I will understand some of this better. Need one small knob and some know how, and this will be in great shape soon. Won't it be nice to bake a brown betty in the garage!

 

[kenmore1978]

Goodies

AS I rememeber, the "goodies" that were available on these ranges were Speed Heat and Thermostatically controlled units, rotisserie, meat temperature probe, exhaust fan. I think even the storage cabninet underneath was an "option"

 

[dalangdon]

Flair!

I am a huge Flair fan (Although I am cooking on a 60's era O'Keefe & Merritt at the moment) and can tell you all about the heatminder, insta-heat, See-Level ovens, pull-to-you burners, etc, etc, etc....

I am gradually publishing the flair manual on my flair website (http://danlangdon.com/flair.htm) Check it out, and let me know if you need anything else. There's an email link there.

I'm still hoping to find me a gas version of the double oven Fabulous 400.

And yes - Sears did a KM version of the Fabulous 400, which makes me think that Tappan had a hand in it.

 

[Kevinpreston3]

Dan, a few words

Excellent taste, fine furnishings, outstanding execution. Now THAT is style. Love your place, wish you lived a bit closer so I might someday see your house in person! The only thing you're missing is a Heywood Wakefield room divider!

Hmmmm, maybe just maybe I will buy a Flair and see if I can squeeze it into the back house........

 

[jetaction]

Thanks so much!

Wow! What great info Dalangdon has on his site! The features of appliances of this era are so fun, and so helpful! My Tappan manual states that by using the Visiminder (timebake) I will have more time for church meetings and bridge!! Yeah!

 

[veg-o-matic]

Dan!

I love you and I want to bear your children.

veg

 

[dalangdon]

Aw shucks, now you've made me blush! ;-)

Glad you liked the site.

 

[petek]

Dan

Great website, now I know I'm not the only train travel maven here. Been working on the RR all my live long day, many years back as an attendant on The Canadian from Vancouver, well when you were 10..lol. As much as I like the newer Superliner types nothing beats the orginals with the vista-domes and park cars on the end. If you ever get the chance you should try the Canadian, all the coaches were restored to their original chrome and lucite glory a couple of years ago. If you have any pics of the trains you travelled on, coaches, locos' etc..love to see those.