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Dixie stove in PANK!
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Old Dixie stove
Back when I was a kid, we had the same , but basic model Dixie in white at our lakeside camp. Wished I still had that stove. I remember it had 4 seperate pilots for each burner and every time you walked by it and made the smallest breeze, the front pilots would go out, plus the oven had to be lit by hand. Somebody had the bright idea to replace it with an electric stove and naturally, the power would go out and dinner had to be finished on the BBQ. Eventually when this place became mine, I quickly replaced it with a gas stove and have never looked back. Funny, the power very rarely goes out now that I have gas.
Back when I was a kid, we had the same , but basic model Dixie in white at our lakeside camp. Wished I still had that stove. I remember it had 4 seperate pilots for each burner and every time you walked by it and made the smallest breeze, the front pilots would go out, plus the oven had to be lit by hand. Somebody had the bright idea to replace it with an electric stove and naturally, the power would go out and dinner had to be finished on the BBQ. Eventually when this place became mine, I quickly replaced it with a gas stove and have never looked back. Funny, the power very rarely goes out now that I have gas.
norgeway
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A GOOD OLD!
Southern stove, Cleveland Tennessee was the stove capitol of the South, Dixie, Dortch,Magic Chef,Brown and Hardwick were all built there.
Southern stove, Cleveland Tennessee was the stove capitol of the South, Dixie, Dortch,Magic Chef,Brown and Hardwick were all built there.
1960 DIXIE GAS STOVE
We had the same gas range that my father bought when they bought the house that I am in now. Ours had the CO-OP name on it and as my dad worked for CO-OP groceries stores no other brands were considered. The folks that sold us the house took the old gas stove with them so a stove had to be purchased quickly.
What a horrible stove, as mentioned before each burner had an exposed pilot light and ANYTHING that was placed on top of the range that was not metal either caught fire or in the case of ceramic dishes they would shatter in 10 or 15 minutes.
My mother was quite a good cook and in addition to cooking several meals a day for a family of six she made a lot of fancy desserts candies, cookies etc. This range was very disappointing to her as the old house had an electric range. And I slowly watched her stop making many of the candies and other fancy deserts as it was just do difficult if not impossible to do over a gas burner. And while the oven worked OK the broiler was nearly useless, I watched as she tried to broil hamburgers and pork chops and they would slowly turn gray instead of actually being broiled. I also remember the times she would fire up the oven first thing in the morning and the awful smell of the gas oven heating would make me sick to my stomach and I would try to stay home from school.
But finally in 1971 after the second oven thermostat failed we bought a new TOL Whirlpool Electric range built by Kelvinator. WOW I could not believe how fast water would boil and how low the heat would go on the burners and a self-cleaning oven that was so well insulted that after an hour you still couldn't tell there was an oven on in the kitchen. Only once after this time did I go back to an gas range when my partner bought a newly renovated condo and it had a new Roper built KM range in 1980. As we both liked to actually cook a lot I think that that range actually lasted about 3 months before I pulled it out and installed a Jenn-Air down-draft Electric cooktop and a WO 27" double electric wall oven.
We had the same gas range that my father bought when they bought the house that I am in now. Ours had the CO-OP name on it and as my dad worked for CO-OP groceries stores no other brands were considered. The folks that sold us the house took the old gas stove with them so a stove had to be purchased quickly.
What a horrible stove, as mentioned before each burner had an exposed pilot light and ANYTHING that was placed on top of the range that was not metal either caught fire or in the case of ceramic dishes they would shatter in 10 or 15 minutes.
My mother was quite a good cook and in addition to cooking several meals a day for a family of six she made a lot of fancy desserts candies, cookies etc. This range was very disappointing to her as the old house had an electric range. And I slowly watched her stop making many of the candies and other fancy deserts as it was just do difficult if not impossible to do over a gas burner. And while the oven worked OK the broiler was nearly useless, I watched as she tried to broil hamburgers and pork chops and they would slowly turn gray instead of actually being broiled. I also remember the times she would fire up the oven first thing in the morning and the awful smell of the gas oven heating would make me sick to my stomach and I would try to stay home from school.
But finally in 1971 after the second oven thermostat failed we bought a new TOL Whirlpool Electric range built by Kelvinator. WOW I could not believe how fast water would boil and how low the heat would go on the burners and a self-cleaning oven that was so well insulted that after an hour you still couldn't tell there was an oven on in the kitchen. Only once after this time did I go back to an gas range when my partner bought a newly renovated condo and it had a new Roper built KM range in 1980. As we both liked to actually cook a lot I think that that range actually lasted about 3 months before I pulled it out and installed a Jenn-Air down-draft Electric cooktop and a WO 27" double electric wall oven.
norgeway
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Well....
If you find one...I will take it!!!
If you find one...I will take it!!!
norgeway
Well-known member
Dixie..
Later became Magic Chef,this was long after the old Magic Chef of St Louis.The Magic Chefs of the early 60s are basically just Dixies, the pilot system was supposed to use less gas and improve lighting.
Later became Magic Chef,this was long after the old Magic Chef of St Louis.The Magic Chefs of the early 60s are basically just Dixies, the pilot system was supposed to use less gas and improve lighting.
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