autowasherfreak
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Found this on a Facebook group that I joined called Dusty Old Things.
Cool Vintage Stove
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Very Cool
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Looks right at home against the bead board walls, and old style linoleum.
The kerosene is a little scary though. LOL
picture.
Looks right at home against the bead board walls, and old style linoleum.
The kerosene is a little scary though. LOL
autowasherfreak
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Is that the tank on the left? What are the tanks underneath? I've never seen a stove like this before. I've seen the old wood cook stoves, but nothing like this one.
The tank is on the left
the things underneath are the burners.
Kerosene (paraffin) is nasty and smelly, but less (less!) flammable than gasoline (petrol). Kerosene has a higher ignition temperature. Many cooks of my Grandmothers' generation would use wood or coal for winter and fall cooking, and kerosene stoves for spring and summer cooking, because kerosene can be ignited when desired, and extinguished when desired. I desire not to use it at all!
Lawrence/Maytagbear
the things underneath are the burners.
Kerosene (paraffin) is nasty and smelly, but less (less!) flammable than gasoline (petrol). Kerosene has a higher ignition temperature. Many cooks of my Grandmothers' generation would use wood or coal for winter and fall cooking, and kerosene stoves for spring and summer cooking, because kerosene can be ignited when desired, and extinguished when desired. I desire not to use it at all!
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I bet this things weighs a ton, to bad today's stoves aren't built as good as these were.
I second what Lawrence said...
I understand that here at the farm, my grandmother cooked with kerosene in the summer, and with the cook stove in the cold/cooler months. Electricity didn't arrive here until 1945, natural gas has been used for cooking and heating since the drilling of the wells in the late 1960s.
I still keep a full container of kerosene in the garage, for the lanterns and Aladdin lamps - for power outages. Lost power for three days in May, then one day last week, due to severe weather.
But I wandered off topic...
Joe
I understand that here at the farm, my grandmother cooked with kerosene in the summer, and with the cook stove in the cold/cooler months. Electricity didn't arrive here until 1945, natural gas has been used for cooking and heating since the drilling of the wells in the late 1960s.
I still keep a full container of kerosene in the garage, for the lanterns and Aladdin lamps - for power outages. Lost power for three days in May, then one day last week, due to severe weather.
But I wandered off topic...
Joe
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Kerosene!
Lots of folks used kerosene cook stoves here in the 30s and 40s, it was considered an upgrade from a wood stove, kind of like cooking on gas, except for the odor!
Lots of folks used kerosene cook stoves here in the 30s and 40s, it was considered an upgrade from a wood stove, kind of like cooking on gas, except for the odor!
In the basement where my father's mother had the kerosene stove to heat wash water, the kerosene smell pervaded everything and was the first thing you noticed when you opened the door at the top of the stairs. Regulating the oven temperature without a thermostat took some experience and you had to bend down and adjust the burners (2 for the oven). The tank was neat because you lifted it in the upside down position then turned it over and unscrewed the dispenser top to fill it.
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Kerosene scary..
It is scary. You have to remember those stoves were produced when houses were drafty as a rule, so fumes didnt matter as much.
I had a 2 burner version of that stove for several years, it had no built in oven, but there was a seperate oven which could be placed over the 2 burners, and a large thick lid which could be closed over the burners to use the stove as a heater. I enjoyed using it, and never worried. Mine came from the 1930s sears catalog.
Last winter I thought I had the flu. Achy, tired, slight cough, etc, all the time. Someone gave me a carbon monoxide detector. I brought it home, put in the battery, and the alarm immidiately went off.
Turns out, though the way it functioned and the shape clor and size of the flames looked the same, something in the burner was no longer functioning correctly, and it was filling the house with fumes. I just got lucky that I didnt use it while we were sleeping, and my house was kinda drafty.
Now I use wood in the winter. Kerosene is too risky, unless one monitors it constantly, and lives in a big old drafty house.
It is scary. You have to remember those stoves were produced when houses were drafty as a rule, so fumes didnt matter as much.
I had a 2 burner version of that stove for several years, it had no built in oven, but there was a seperate oven which could be placed over the 2 burners, and a large thick lid which could be closed over the burners to use the stove as a heater. I enjoyed using it, and never worried. Mine came from the 1930s sears catalog.
Last winter I thought I had the flu. Achy, tired, slight cough, etc, all the time. Someone gave me a carbon monoxide detector. I brought it home, put in the battery, and the alarm immidiately went off.
Turns out, though the way it functioned and the shape clor and size of the flames looked the same, something in the burner was no longer functioning correctly, and it was filling the house with fumes. I just got lucky that I didnt use it while we were sleeping, and my house was kinda drafty.
Now I use wood in the winter. Kerosene is too risky, unless one monitors it constantly, and lives in a big old drafty house.
