Modern Maid!

[spookiness]

the microwave

Looks like the Magic Chef countertop microwave I had. It was kind of a big deal, because it was my first appliance purchase. It was rather slow at about 700 watts, but did the job and had logical and easy to use controls. IIRC it was still made in US, Alabama I think, which was one of my reasons for buying.

I'm sold on Panasonic microwaves now.

 

[yany8a]

Me gustaría que alguien me facilitara el Manual del horno Modern Maid DCO480. Me mudé y el apto vino con este súper horno, pero me cuesta colocarlo en la temperatura correcta para hacer pan o cualquiera otro postre

 

[gelaundry4ever]

modern maid

What happened to Modern Maid dishwashers? I wish Speed Queen Appliances would've carried the torch and built dishwashers. As for most dishwashers, I want built better than any of them.

 

[yany8a]

peteski50

I'm from Venezuela and I moved to a place where there's a Modern Maid DCO480 double electric oven. I need the user manual. Could any of you provide it to me?

 

[peteski50]

Modern Maid

I don't have any user manuals!

 

[DADoES]

 
Whirlpool inherited the Modern Maid brand-name with purchase of Maytag in 2006 (but has since sold it?).  Production of Modern Maid-branded appliances apparently ended sometime in the early 1990s.

There are two documents in Whirlpool's service literature library via "guest search" -- a sales brochure (incorrectly tagged as "Owner's Manual") and very brief instructions on setting the automatic timer for manual oven operation.

The sales brochure says it's continuous-cleaning.  The treated surface absorbs and catalyzes soils at normal baking temperatures.  Don't use any chemical oven cleaning products, which would damage the continuous-clean treatment.  Running it at 400°F for an hour+ can help the cleaning process if your normal baking isn't often enough or long enough.

https://www.servicematters.com/en_US/guest-search?query=dco480

 

[bpetersxx]

Memories all alone in the moonlight

I saw these type of appliances in 1981 at the Indianapolis home show at the fairgrounds

Modern Maid Caloric etc

 

[jr2712]

Yany8a

Hola Yany8a que placer conseguir otra persona de Venezuela aqui. Yo vivo en Maracaibo. Si me envias fotos de los controles del horno te puedo explicar en detalle las funciones. Mi whatsapp 04246530107

Jesus R

 

[mark_wpduet]

My grandma had a continuous clean oven.. she cooked a LOT. I remember the surface of the interior was very rough...and I never remember the inside of the oven looking dirty...Is this even a thing anymore? If it is, I don't think it's common. I wonder why?

 

[gizmo]

continuous clean oven

If it had a rough grey interior, it was a catalytic lining. These have a layer that absorbs fatty splatters, and gradually break them down using normal oven heat - no need for a special cleaning cycle. The catalytic layer does become less effective over a few years - some brands offer replaceable catalytic oven wall panels.

 

They are still "a thing" on some European-made ovens, and Samsung sells a catalytic oven here in Australia too.

I'm not sure if any US brands still offer a catalytic oven, the last Australian oven manufacturer, Electrolux, no longer offers a catalytic version - it is either manual cleaning, or pyrolytic.

 

[mark_wpduet]

Do you know if there is a particular reason they were basically phased out? Although like you said - not entirely.

 

[gizmo]

Why are they no longer so popular?

I suspect because the catalytic liner slowly degrades over time, and can struggle with heavy greasy deposits.

 

Also pyrolytic is the flavour of the month. People shopping for a self-cleaning oven are generally searching out pyrolytic these days.

 

There are still some new ones around - Beko for example, though I'm not sure if they sell them in USA. Beko have several models with catalytic back wall only, this one has catalytic back and side walls:

https://www.beko.com/au-en/home-appliances/oven/built-in-oven-90-cm-built-in-oven-127-l-bbo91271mdx

 

[jamiel]

Any idea how they made the coating? Presume they add something to the porcelain slurry to make it cure/melt porous rather than glassy.

Had an aunt that had a continuous clean oven that decided to clean itself when she was making Thanksgiving dinner (i.e. got hot enough long enough to actually oxidize). It stank--still remember that odor. Blech....and in the middle of cooking for the family.

 

[mark_wpduet]

I'm trying to remember. I was so young... Like I said, my grandma cooked a lot. My aunt had a self-cleaning oven and I remember my grandma (we used to call her Meme) and she would say "this is not a self-clean it's a continuous clean... I remember thinking "what's the difference" She didn't know....but I remember looking in the oven and the worst it ever looked over the years was that it sort of looking like it could use a vacuuming out from maybe a few crumbs here and there...but it never looked deteriorated or stained and she had that thing for years...In other words, if you ran a vacuum cleaner to get the crumbs out, it would have looked new