Mrs. Darrin Stephens, Your Frigidaire Range Is Calling
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Never understood why people go apesh*t over those.
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Flair
I have the single oven version of the Flair. I LOVE it! I have lived in many different places (Air Force wife retired) and had many different stoves, new and old. The Flair beats them all. The way the door opens makes it extremely easy to handle whatever you are putting in or taking out of the oven. The oven is wide enough for a half sheet cake with room to spare; in other ovens I was lucky if I could barely squeeze one in and I even had a wall oven that I couldn’t close the door on a pan that size. The entire door is clear so I can see what’s going on inside. Everything bakes easily and evenly. I don’t have to bend over for anything. The knobs are at eye level. I can hide my stove top. And of course don’t forget the cool factor. If I move again, that stove goes with me.
I have the single oven version of the Flair. I LOVE it! I have lived in many different places (Air Force wife retired) and had many different stoves, new and old. The Flair beats them all. The way the door opens makes it extremely easy to handle whatever you are putting in or taking out of the oven. The oven is wide enough for a half sheet cake with room to spare; in other ovens I was lucky if I could barely squeeze one in and I even had a wall oven that I couldn’t close the door on a pan that size. The entire door is clear so I can see what’s going on inside. Everything bakes easily and evenly. I don’t have to bend over for anything. The knobs are at eye level. I can hide my stove top. And of course don’t forget the cool factor. If I move again, that stove goes with me.
High oven ranges
These were convenient and very well loved by many homemakers and they would still be in wide use today if it wasn’t for the self cleaning oven coming along, which was not adaptable to this type of range design.
All the emphasis in the mid 60s started to be on the miracle of the self cleaning oven And they started to push these out of production. These high oven ranges were very expensive to produce if you’ve ever Moved one you know how heavy they are, lol
My favorite of these high oven ranges is still the hot points, they use the same type of door system as the Frigidaire flares the Frigidaire is much more popular, and the only advantage of it is, you can hide the burners which I never saw the point of I always want stove to be ready to use other people like to put a good face on dirty ranges I guess lol
The points just had so much better wiring, controls and surface heating elements than the Frigidaire but the Frigidaire are certainly good ranges.
John
These were convenient and very well loved by many homemakers and they would still be in wide use today if it wasn’t for the self cleaning oven coming along, which was not adaptable to this type of range design.
All the emphasis in the mid 60s started to be on the miracle of the self cleaning oven And they started to push these out of production. These high oven ranges were very expensive to produce if you’ve ever Moved one you know how heavy they are, lol
My favorite of these high oven ranges is still the hot points, they use the same type of door system as the Frigidaire flares the Frigidaire is much more popular, and the only advantage of it is, you can hide the burners which I never saw the point of I always want stove to be ready to use other people like to put a good face on dirty ranges I guess lol
The points just had so much better wiring, controls and surface heating elements than the Frigidaire but the Frigidaire are certainly good ranges.
John
John
Tell me more I did not know why EyeLevel baking died in MidCentury America !!
My Thermador's were eye level and they had self cleaning .
Tell me more I did not know why EyeLevel baking died in MidCentury America !!
My Thermador's were eye level and they had self cleaning .
Jon, were your ovens full size, built-in ovens like Julia Child had on her show? If yes, you are talking apples and oranges. The eye level ovens were not full size ovens and had glass doors. A factor with the eye level ovens in the ranges like the Flair with the glass oven doors was that they let a lot of radiant heat through which was not comfortable for a cook standing in front of the ovens while using the surface units, especially for something which needed a lot of stirring; at least that was something that Consumer Reports mentioned.
