Nice GE Range with P-7 Oven

[pulltostart]

Very sweet.  I wouldn't mind cooking on this one!

 

lawrence

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190719246558?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

 

[norgeway]

Nice!

These were so over insulated they literally bake with about 1/2 the current use of a regular range..GE at its best!

 

[danemodsandy]

Aiiiii! So CLOSE!

MAN, does that range break my heart! It's a model or two older than the 1972 J757 I'd love to find.

The J757 is much the same, with some detail changes in the backguard, and the pushbuttons replaced by infinite switches on the console, so that wandering kee-cats like my Tony can't walk on the pushbuttons, turn the range on, and maybe start a fire.

And it's white, too. WAAH!

 

[mixfinder]

Cowboy Up

Sandy, there enough of us here to help you get the range.  We could do a bucket brigrade and keep passing it off northwest until it gets to Waterloo.  Seriously, don't weaken, where there is a will there is a way.

 

[laundromat]

Lost my home and a couple cats on mine. It was an over/under double oven model in pink.

 

[danemodsandy]

Kelly:

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

This is similar to the range I'm looking for, so similar that I wish I could make it work.

The dealbreaker is those pushbuttons at the sides of the cooktop. Those have been implicated in several fires, when cats prancing around on kitchen countertops stepped on the buttons and activated burners in the process. I've got a cat.

So, this is not the one for me; I need the later version with the infinite switches on the backguard if I'm to have a GE of this era at all. If this one were workable, it's in Oak Brook, IL, which is not impossible for me, but the kee-cat rules here, y'know?

But I appreciate the thought!

 

[whirlcool]

Could't you just make a plexiglass guard to put over the switches when the unit is not in use to prevent unauthorized firing up of the burners?

 

[danemodsandy]

Allen:

Sadly, I am one of those people who sometimes can't remember if something was turned off before leaving the house, and worries about it all day. I have stuff on timers for that reason.

I can see me now, trying to get through the workday while trying to figure out if I put the guard in place or not.

But thanks for the suggestion.

 

[gansky1]

OMG - that is beautiful!

 

[danemodsandy]

Greg, DON'T!

"OMG - that is beautiful!"

You're making me reconsider it, LOL.

 

[gansky1]

Too late, it's out there!

I absolutely don't need it. Nor do I want to ship or drive for it right now but if it were within a couple hours, I'd polish that up and use it as an end table if I had no other space

Ugh. This is so pretty. I like GE ranges.

 

[whirlcool]

My sister is obsessed by thinking she has left things on in her house when she has left. I can't tell you how many times she has rushed home thinking she left things on only to find that was not the case.

I told her to develop a "departure routine" where she physically checks things and speaks the checked item's name before moving on to the next item. She said it has helped some.

Long, long time ago I dated a girl who had to check things 3 or 4 times before she could leave her apt. She had a bad case of obsessive compulsive disorder. This was before this kind of behavior was known by the general public. It reallly controlled her life.

 

[danemodsandy]

Greg:

Lead me not into temptation....

....For I can find the way all by myself, LOL!

 

[danemodsandy]

laundromat:

"Lost my home and a couple cats on mine. It was an over/under double oven model in pink."

For some reason, I didn't see your post until just now. I'm extremely sorry you had that happen.

Looks like I really should hold out for a J757.

Thanks for the reminder.

 

[bajaespuma]

Sandy,

 

That beautiful Harvest Gold JP757 is one of my all-time favorite GE ranges. I'd love to find one and yes, as pretty as the older ones are, those buttons on the sides of the cooktops were a disaster; much prefer the infinite control knobs. We had the big-brother to your stove, with a second oven on top and it performed like a champ. My Parents were getting to that stage in life where all they needed was the smaller top oven which had (yay!) a rotisserie. It didn't self-clean; you had to remove the oven panels and put them in the big oven for that, but I don't think my Mother even knew how or trusted the electric self-clean feature. The big oven was only used, no exaggeration, on Thanksgiving and Xmas.

 

[norgeway]

I would rather!

Have the pushbutton model!I dont have cats, but if i did I still wouldnt worry,I never leave anything on my stovetop except a Revere Whistling tea kettle,I hate to hear of a fire anywhere,and im very sorry that anyone had such a bad experience,but with those big buttons you just have to be careful not to have anything on top of the range.

 

[combo52]

I to Love The Push-Button Model

Range top fires are still all to common in homes and it is not the cats you have to worry about. Prevention is the best approach, As Hans suggested never put anything on top of any type of range that is flammable [ except maybe induction ], do not store any thing in an oven that cannot withstand a 1,000 degree temperatures, this includes Teflon cookware.

 

I have seen more disasters than I can remember over the years of repairing appliances regarding fires and near fires involving ranges and clothes dryers. I even had a customer that did not use her dryer in the kitchen [ it was a early 1980s WCI built Skinny-Mini ] so she used the dryer to store grocery store plastic bags in. One day a house guest was trying to do a load of laundry and accidentally turned the dryer on and because of the noise of the washer didn't realize that it was running. The bags blocked the airflow and the machine was so full that the dryer became a big molten mess of plastic, when it cooled the whole mess hardened and that was the end of the machine.

 

If you are very concerned about range safety you should have a high quality range hood above and hopefully vented. Avoid Over The Range Microwave Ovens as they are mostly plastic and account for Thousands of house fires every year as all the plastic burn and melts and helps feed range-top fires. And again do not store flammable items in the cabinet over the range or range hood. I even had one customer who was very concerned about his elderly Mother and wired a cutoff relay into the power supply for all the surface elements to the heat detector built into the range hood so if it detects high heat it not only starts the fan but cuts off all power to the cook-top.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ken:

I've had the Americana version of this range in a rental, years ago. Great baker in the lower oven, though the upper one was no great shakes, as was typical of glass-doored ovens of that era; windowed ovens were usually okay, but not so much the ones with an all-glass front.

If I could only find a white J757! So far, no luck, and it ain't for lack of looking.[this post was last edited: 8/31/2012-07:05]

 

[gansky1]

Sandy, stop bringing this back to the top - you're not the only one with a weakness for temptation! LOL

 

[norgeway]

RE over range microwaves!!

I dont want a microwave in my kitchen, especially one in my way over the range!Mine is in the laundry room, where it gets used for melting butter and warming things,If I were here by myself I would get rid of it all together.

 

[swestoyz]

* Bump *

ahahhahahaha

 

[combo52]

GE Americana Top Ovens

Baked beautifully, I think that they were the only brand that did however. If you look at GEs design they placed more heat in the front to compensate for the glass doors heat loss, plus the top heat with a good reflector, their top oven baked beautifully.