GE Rotisserie Oven

[Brneyedgrl80]

Guess who is the proud owner of this beauty?

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

I am seriously having great luck at Goodwill this month. I found this oven just sitting all the way in the back on shelf behind some televisions. She was getting no love, but that'll change now.

 

[cadman]

Now THAT is a nice appliance!

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

She was being sold for $19.99 but today everything was 50% off, so I snagged her for $10!

Here's a close-up of her controls.

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

Here's here buttons and power light.

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

And here temperature dial. She needs to be cleaned up, but other than that, she's in great shape.

She gets warm real quick too! And the Rotisserie part rotates once you set it to rotisserie.

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

And last but not least, a close up of the logo.

The little bit of research has led me to believe that this is either from 1958 or 1959.

 

[sudsmaster]

Looke well designed and constructed.

It's a bit amazing how timeless such a design is. Modern portable rotisserie ovens are built pretty much the same, but of cheaper materials, of course .

I can't say I envy the clean-up job using this oven to rotisserie a chicken might involve, but it sure would smell good ;-).

Speaking of which, I need to go rotisserie a 12 lb turkey in my outdoor propane BBQ.

 

[jasonl]

I WANT ONE

I love the clamshell design, must be very easy to load the rotisserie in its place. Heating elements in the lid, I guess one underneath for "bake-roast". Ronco ain't got nuthin on this puppy. Do you have the rotisserie for it?

 

[jasonl]

Also it looks small. What's the dimensions on it? How much can you rotiss on that?

 

[petek]

That is very very nice indeed he said jealously. LOL. It has it all, buttons and dials. Don't forget now,, turn past the dot!!! It's such fun finding something great like that for such a bargain.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Well, Well, my little pretty

Aren't you a clever little girl!!! Great plates too,
Missy. I have two of the G E rotisses each with some nominal
gackation, but one with all of tisserie fitiings and the inst/recp book. Yours looks to be pretty well cared for/un-
abused, you go young lady, you're on a roll. You are right about the era of manufacture, when I was bout 7 or eight I remember a close family friend had one. (new), yes, I was seven in 1959!!!! Jason they hog about as much space as a mid
size microwave.

 

[veg-o-matic]

I'm pretty sure Kevin has one of those.

Sure like to have one of my very own!

veg

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Well Veg

Have you been NAUGHTY, or nice?

 

[veg-o-matic]

Well, naughty of course.

Which can be really nice!

veg

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

You two!

So, so silly! lol

I took the liberty of taking a size comparison picture so everyone can get an idea how big they are. My hubby was gracious enough to volunteer the use of his body in my photo.

I have no idea where I'm going to put this thing, but who cares! It's cool!

 

[swestoyz]

Now that is cool - I love the stamped metal for the controls - and the colored push buttons - looks like a score to me!

Ben

 

[tomturbomatic]

In the ads for this appliance, they used to show it turning out Baked Alaska, high elegance at the time. This appliance had some versatility with the ability to bake or broil although, with no insulation, it was best used outdoors during hot weather. The appliance that replaced it, GE's Rotisserie Broiler was the apotheosis of modern design with clean straight lines and square edges. It had a partial glass door on the front that, when closed, left an air gap of about an inch at the top and bottom so that foods being broiled or rotated had cooler air circulating around them so that the cooking was more by radiant heat than less desirable steamy baking, but the bake function was lost forever.

Once you start looking at this earlier beauty, you can see that it did not have heavy use. Cleaning it was not a fun thing. The chrome plated back of the oven must never be scoured or you will put scratches in it that will be on full display through the picture window.

This is about the last grand hurrah for the era of the big infra red rotisserie-broilers of the 40s through mid 50s from brands like Black Angus & Roto-Broil. Most broiling, but not rotisserie cooking, on 115 volts limited the ratio of food to quality results (high heat over a small area) vs. (lower heat over larger area). Cleaning these monsters was a job with all of their sharp edges, seams and cracks. The trend went in favor of broilers like the Farberware Open Hearth Broiler/Rotisseries which Consumer Reports loved.

If anyone has one of the Farber Broilers, you know that most of the drippings fall through to the pan underneath. If you want a bit of the taste of of charcoal grilling, find one of the half sections of the JennAire flat ceramic rock that went under the element in the grill module. I just set it in the shell of the broiler before putting in the element. While the process remains essentially smokeless with lean pieces of flesh, enough drips sizzle on the rocks to give a slight essence of the wonderful, carcinogenic flavor of foods grilled over charcoal's high heat. After use, the ceramic rock goes in the dishwasher with the rest of the soiled parts for easy cleaning.

 

[toggleswitch]

TYVM Tom.

I always wanted a Faberware open-hearth roti.
Where do you place it when working? table?