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Golly!

First the seller gets the name wrong, a G.E. Custom Imperial, when the name Frigidaire is there screaming at them. Then they type in all caps, and to top that off they can't get the photo of the item oriented right so you can examine it closely.

Haven't they ever heard of proofing before submitting?
 
No Greg You are Wrong Again!

He told us its a prototype!

GE was planning on secretly infiltrating Frigidiare sales buy building IDENTICAL looking appliances and shipping them off to unsuspecting Frigidaire Dealers at very low prices!

Who could resist that?? "Resistance is futile"

They got caught in CT by the SEC in 1962 as you can see this was the only prototype ever made!
 
ROTF!!

Jon, you're right. I want this unit, to go with my "secret prototypes" collection. I'll put it next to the GM-Laundercoin :-D

That is a pretty stove. I wish I had forty inches to dedicate to it at this house...or a 220 line, for that matter.

*eyes cabinet to the right of the stove; wonders how necessary it is*
 
Home Sweet Home

That is my mother's range. It was manufactured in 1967 and has the Meat Tender cook timer system. You refer to the range reference chart for kind of meat and it decides how long and at what temperature to cook and then shuts down to a 140 degree keep warm. You put the oven liners from the left oven along with the oven rack and the burner bowls into the right oven. Pull the handle you see on the back splash. Behind it is a small black knob you turn to the right and the self cleaning cycle begins. It was on this range that I learned and loved the Sensi Temp burner that befuddles so many. Mom has dementia and her original stove was very tired. I found one exactly like it in an estate and swapped out mom's stove. She was so excited. The first thing she made was biscuits. The timer went off, she exclaimed how beautiful they were and then took them out. Only she forgot to use hot pads. There are tiny moments when the atoms line up and she realizes she's losing it. The look of terror and agony on her face is beyond anything I can descibe and the pain of it for me it awful. I am grateful she is happy and more grateful that all the love and good times we've had are locked up safe, forever.

Love cures people...the ones who give it and the one who receives it.

Kelly
 
OMG!

I didn't realize that this was also a "prototype", jeesh the seller got taken for a ride!

Nonetheless, it is one great looking stove! Too bad we don't have room for it, our current kitchen setup only allows for a 30" stove and a major remodel may or may not never happen in this house.
 
One of my best-cooking

aunts had the same model of this fabulous stove.

I wish I had room for this one. (And of course, be closer.)

A big element Frigidaire is the only electric I would willingly consider over a gas or dual fuel.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Kelly! Mr. Information Please!

Kelly:

What is that little pull-out thingy shown on the backguard?

That is an awesome range- I wish it weren't on the other side of the world, shipping-wise. It's the right vintage, and it's self-clean, too. Ah, well.

I think the misunderstanding about the brand name could happen to anyone- after all, in GENERAL, Frigidaire ranges of that era are ELECTRIC. *ducks and runs*
 
Uh, Belay That, Kelly...

Kelly:

If I'da read your post a bit more closely, I'da known what that little pull-out thingy was...

Duhhhh- I'm not real bright, but I can lift heavy things...
 
Pull Out Thingy

Sandy,
It's early in the morning to expect me to have my restraint button working!
All the products Frigidaire made were objects of beauty and awe and built like a destroyer as well. After fourty years the clocks and specialty features of both Frigidaires mom has/had are still working. When I found the replacement it came from the house of an elderly women who was losing her eyesight and it had little pieces of adhesive tape on the black splash so she could feel where the controls were. The daughter had cleaned the range and it was truly like the day it was new. I hated to take it to moms where it will run like it was in a restaurant with all the company they have and two hired men who live on the ranch.
I had an epiphany as I installed the new range. It was like it was an "angel of mercy" allowing one more old family to remain independent.
Okay, between Shane and memories, I need an hanky.

Love cures people...the ones who give it and the one who receives it.
 
Kelly, that sounds so much like things at my mom's house. She has tape and puff paint on knobs of the various appliances due to macular degeneration and seriously impaired vision. Her daily driver for nearly 60 years has been her '49 Westinghouse range and thankfully that one has just had some tape applied that points out the 350 degree setting on the oven control knob. Other than that, she could work the burner settings from memory. She had a mild stroke about a year ago and was already getting too weak to haul pots from stove to sink, etc. Now she has 24/7 care and the person who does the cooking is not taking care of her stove the way she did. I'm hoping it survives to be a viable item for a collector when the time comes to sell it. I haven't been able to find extra burners for it so am thinking this is one very rare stove. I don't like electric myself and my partner would render it useless after cooking a single meal on it (as if he'd even consider it for his main stove--not in 1,000,000 years) so it needs to go to a good home when the time comes. But had to respond here since your story of the taped-on visual aids really hit home with me.
 
Maybe the F, R, I, D, A and R keys on his computer just happened fail as he was typing "FRIGIDAIRE". It could happen!

::sound effect: crickets chirping on a summer night, coyote howling in the distance::

OK, I'll . . . I'll be . . . going.
 
Dementia

Mixfinder, my Mother also suffers from some form of dementia; you're description of your Mom burning herself was heart-rending. Is she still living at home?

I agree with all of you, I will always take a Frigidaire thick coil burner over anything else residential. And I too, was the only one in our house who understood the Sensi-Temp burner on our GE cooktop. Fabulous appliances, pity my parents through out the griddle that came with the Sensi-Temp burner with the packing materials when the thing was first delivered. I learned how to cook on that stove.

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