Electric GE Stratoliner Deluxe Tripl-Oven stove

[deathefrog]

We recently purchased a house and a fabulous 50's white and chrome kitchen came with it. I really do love the stove, and have never seen one like it, with it's big burner, two smaller burners and the odd Thrift-E cooker (like a slow cooker on your cooktop!). It also works, which is a miracle, and there is not one chip on it's lovely thick porcelin cooktop. The worklight on top even lights up AND it has it's original manual with the Cleavers cooking..not to mention the salt and pepper shakers! It and the house belonged to a lovely lady who just turned 94 this year, hence the selling of the house. She took ultra great care of her things. However my pickle is the oven and stove are just not what my family needs. We cook ALOT and not only do we not want to destroy this piece of history, but it does not suit our needs. I was just wondering how rare this item was and what it would be worth? It needs just one thing to be near showroom perfect and that's a new timer for the slow cooker...
Does anyone know anything about these stoves? I know this was prolly made sometime in that very late 40's-early 50's.
Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

-ck

 

[58limited]

~the oven and stove are just not what my family needs. We cook ALOT...

I cook a lot on my 1950 O'Keefe & Merritt. Believe me, these stoves were meant to cook large meals frequently. They were made before microwaves, and even TV dinners if it is pre-1952. The ovens may look narrow, but they are usually deeper than modern ovens - they can hold about as much an average modern oven. My suggestion: practice cooking with it, learn its functions and quirks. You will come to love it. The insulation is better in many antique stoves. They hold heat much longer than the average modern stove. The old timers can be rebuilt - search the web for antique stove repair and restoration places.

You will have to buy a high end stove to get an adequate replacement for an old one, meaning the $350 special at Lowe's won't cut it. I'm talking Viking or something similar.

But, if you want to get rid of it, you have come to the right place. I'm sure someone here would love to acquire it.

Can you post a picture of it?

 

[deathefrog]

Gotta getta pic!!

I will post a pic of the stove AND our fabulous 50's kitchen when hubby comes home and tells me where the heckaroo he stashed them

Thanks for replying!

-ck