Montgomery Ward Menu Magic

[jacz219]

Hi all,

So I have this Montgomery Ward Menu Magic stove. I know
It’s a dressed up Tappan.

So I have two questions:

1. What kind of burners would I replace the old ones with? They are the originals I believe and have dead spots in them. I’ve been using the stove since I bought it in 2018–they are getting worn.

2. There is a fluorescent light behind the white panel. How do I go about changing it? I want to be very careful and not explore it with a screw driver. This is the only one I’ve seen like this.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

 

[bradfordwhite]

Does this stove have the flat top above the controls?

 

I remember seeing the advertisments in the mid 70s magazines for this series of stoves.

 

btw- Carol Brady has called and wants her freezer door back. 

 

[jacz219]

Carol can’t have it!

It does have the flat top above the controls. It’s the warmer that the previous owner had disconnected.

As for the freezer door, I searched high and low for an avocado refrigerator in my area and I hit the mother load!

 

[bradfordwhite]

The warmer was probably disconnected (or burned out) and the shelf used for a microwave.

 

It's an electric stove.  It won't be that difficult to fix.  There may be a starter for the light.  Do you have a picture of the back?

 

Have you shared complete pictures of your beautiful stove yet?  If so where's the link?

 

When you say you "hit the mother load" does that mean you have the rest of the frig, or...

you have just the single door that you could easily fit inside your Toyota Yaris, or ...

you found a whole garage FULL of avocado side-by-side freezer doors and the owner wanted you to take them all? 

 

Either way, please share.  There is a fair number of us here that want to ogle and judge the heck out of your treasure while secretly envying your efforts. 

 

 

 

[jacz219]

My treasure

I wanted in the worst way possible an avocado sxs refrigerator with an ice maker. I had searched for 3 years and I came across many avocado refrigerators but not the one I wanted. Back in June I got on Facebook market place and there it was. It came from the original owner, it was sentenced to the basement as a spare refrigerator after they remodeled the kitchen in 2012. The owner told me the brand new refrigerator that replaced it died after 5 years. Anyway, their housekeeper insisted that the owner sell it because she was tired of cleaning it and it wasn’t being used. I messaged them, didn’t negotiate, gave them the $250 and picked it up two days later.

Only defect is a crack in the customer dispenser sign on the ice maker. It has the butter conditioner and temperature control drawer and all.

My good friend realized it was the same model from the Brady Bunch. So yes, I have Carol’s refrigerator lol.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Awesome story

You should start a separate post titled "My Brady Bunch refrigerator" here in the super section. Just copy the text you used here and repost your pictures. That way people can find and appreciate your frig find.

People like hearing these stories of saving a treasure like this.

We can concentrate on getting your stove fixed here.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Congratulations on your finds

You might have to replace the light from the back. Frigidaire high oven ranges were like that. I would bet that Chromalox plug in elements would fit your range, if those are plug in elements. Make sure to look at the receptacle for each element to make sure there is no charring indicating arcing from the old element. I don't know what you mean by "dead spots" in the element. Either they are warping and do not make good contact with the pans or the bottoms of your pans are not flat. If there is good contact between the pans and the units, there should not be red places in the units.

 

[vacerator]

Yes, a Wards

Signature badged Tappan Gallery circa 1970. I'm thinking the flourescent bulb is accessed from removing the upper back panel. Looks like a non self clean model.
Is it continuous cleaning with teflon oven liners?