Mark 27!

[pulltostart]

I've always loved the Mark 27 range that GE offered, in all of its variations.  My favorite version was the non-P7 model with clock/timer and window in the door.  From a design standpoint - great, compact proportions.  Granted, no storage and most often 30 inches of base cabinet was sacrificed to install (especially if under a 30 inch hood) so it wasn't the perfect solution for tight spaces that GE tried to claim.  But still, a beautiful cooking device.

 

Here is one with remote wall control, located in New Orleans, being offered by a very-proud seller (note:  price has been reduced, was previously $2000).  Get 'em while they last!

 

Lawrence

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/app/2845686956.html

 

[pulltostart]

Here's another model for sale, this time in the greater Atlanta area (Lawrenceville).  This one is sweet, no remote controls, no clock/timer.  Again, a proud owner.  Until I found the one in New Orleans, I thought $200 was outlandish.....

 

L

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/atq/2782603196.html

 

[pulltostart]

Third offering, found this one on Ebay last evening.  Same model as the first one, this time in Woodtone Brown, located in NY and for a more-realistic price.  A sweet example IMHO.

 

Lawrence

http://www.ebay.com/itm/260965471388?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

 

[bajaespuma]

The Mark 27's were an elegant design. They always looked good in ads and in the brochures. Thermador also had 2 very nice 30" drop-in stoves. I imagine the extra cost and trouble of building these into both the cabinet and the countertop made these beauties prime for the chopping block. You could, of course, surround the unit with white bricks and have the remote in its own backsplash sticking up in the middle of a kitchen peninsula (what were these people thinking?).

 

[toploader55]

The First Range...

I think Joey's smoking the Real Good Stuff.

All these ranges are Beautiful. My Grandmother had the Mark 27 with the controls built in to the wall behind the range, off to the right side.

My own preference, I do not like any Self Cleaning ovens. I use my range at home and once a month or so whether it needs it or not, I spend 15 minutes and clean the oven so there is no build up at all. My Kenmore Range is 7 years old, and when I still had the Service Contract on it, the Tech couldn't believe that I use the Range Everyday.

 

[bajaespuma]

Maybe because we work in kitchens?

I agree with you totally about self-cleaning ovens.

 

The big advantage is that the self-cleaning ovens are better insulated than standard ones.We had GE built-in TOL ovens from 1962 and then, in another place, we had the same model number, only 11 years later and with self-cleaning and the older ones were better than the newer ones in many ways. In the first place, every G-D manufacturer of self- cleaning (pyrolitic) ovens should warn the customer not to leave the chrome oven racks or any other stove parts in the ovens for the cleaning cycle. It ruins them for all time. Also, whatever the heat doesn't reach gets almost permanently burned on. You almost have to spend the same amount of TIME, not effort to clean up after the self-clean that it would take to clean by hand. Nuts to that feature.

 

[whirlcool]

On the other hand.....

We had a P7 double oven, self cleaning wall oven and it was the best oven we have ever had. Even cooking temps, didn't heat the kitchen up too much and the best feature, user defined cleaning cycles. You set the legnth of time the oven would self clean for. Two hours for normal dirt and three hours for the worst of the worst. It would always come out clean. We never had a stain that the P7 couldn't get rid of.

If I designed a dream kitchen it would have a gas cooktop with a pair of GE P7's for ovens.

 

[peteski50]

Mark 27

I had this from 1972!