New Range-Old Cookware

[spaniel50]

This is my new Convection range. It is very good (although not even close to how good my old Frididare Custom Imperial)I do love it. It has convection oven and the oven has the bake element below the oven like the Hotpoints of the eary 1950's. I may have a new stove but still love my old Guardian Service Cookware. This was the only new stove I could find that had a light on the cooktop.
Over the years I have had Revere Ware,18 guage stainless,non-stick but nothing cooks like this old cookware that was sold in the 1940's by home demonstration dinner parties! Sometimes new is not always better!

 

[gredmondson]

I have seen that type of cookware in many thrift stores, so it made it to the West Coast. Have all of the pots bottoms remained flat? They look so. The handles are special as is the shape of some of the pieces. It looks like you have part of a percolator.

 

[spaniel50]

new range-old cookware

They work great on the glass cooktop. Notice the flange at the bottom of the pans. They are all still very flat on the bottom. There are numerous pieces in the set. There is a very large kettle that has racks so you can bake cakes and pies on top of the stove. The domed heavy glass lids also trap the steam and you use very low heat when cooking. They are called waterless and you use almost no water when cooking vegtables.

 

[tomturbomatic]

A couple gave me their set. It was pretty gross, but I put it through the self cleaning oven and it came out great. I sprayed the glass covers with oven cleaner to get rid of the baked on grease. All of the pieces still have flat bases. I see you have a detachable handle and some of the insulating grips that slipped over the handles of the big pieces. I agree with you, it is beautiful cookware. The oval roaster came with racks for range top baking also. Those beautiful glass covers are a result of metal rationing. The original pre WWII pans had really ugly, in my opinion, aluminum covers.

George, that is the bottom part of the drip coffee maker.

Rob, congratulations on your beautiful new stove. A word of warning: if you bake pies, put a pizza pan or one of those special drip catcher pans with a hole in the middle on the rack below the one the pie is on. Unlike ranges where the element rests above the oven floor, if you are using the oven in regular bake mode, the floor becomes much hotter than the thermostat setting since all of the heat for the oven has to come through the floor. If something acid like fruit filling drips on the floor, it etches the glossy porcelain finish for good. We have not seen the bottoms rust out yet like the Hotpoints and Thermadors with the hidden bake elements did over time, but it would be a shame to ruin the beauty of your new oven when it is so new. Try to use the convection mode as much as possible to save the oven floor.

 

[danemodsandy]

Wow!

"I have seen that type of cookware in many thrift stores, so it made it to the West Coast."

Thrifts on the Left Coast must be a whole 'nother experience from those here in the Southeast. That cookware is called Guardian Service, and it's highly collectible and valued. You wouldn't see it in a thrift here, only at an antiques market. Rob's collection is worth a pretty penny. If you're seeing it in thrifts, grab it, is all I can say! Here's a link to more info on Guardian Service:

Guardian Service Cookware Corner

This web site will provide you with an informative collection of history, specifications, cleaning tips, & parts resources pertaining to GUARDIAN SERVICE COOKWARE: the vintage aluminum waterless cookware of days gone by, the 1930s, 40s & 50s.

hcprobate.homestead.com

 

[danemodsandy]

Even Better Guardian Service Link:

Linkie with GS, parts, and literature FS:

News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines

Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

members.aol.com

 

[danemodsandy]

Even Better Guardian Service Link:

Linkie with GS, parts, and literature FS:

News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines

Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

members.aol.com

 

[spaniel50]

New range-old cookware

Tom,
Thanks so much for your advise on the oven floor. I do cook fruit pies so I will make sure and get something to go under the pie. I remember my grandmother always talked about how her 1948 Hotpoint stove cooked like nothing else. Now I understand! I have had very good results from the convection mode. I also really like the choice bake option which has the top element only coming on every 3rd or 4th time your bottom element comes on. This is used for bread and pies. It prevents the edges of pies or tops of bread from getting too brown too soon. Wish I could still buy a new Hotpoint double oven range with the colored lights switches. It was fun when I was small to see all those different lights! When you set my Maytag Neptune washer up it has 12 lights according to which cycle you use but they are all green and no lighted console. Thanks again for your advise.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Rob, I saw these on eBay and wanted to show you what I meant whenI talked about the drip saver for underneath the pie plate. Item #360006975357
Tom