Nice Magic Chef Range
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norgeway
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Magic Chef was the ONLY gas stove I ever saw till I was grown, I knew an older lady who had one, she sure could bake some wonderful cakes and pies. Everyone else I knew had electric ranges, hers was similar to the one pictured, but not as de luxe, I remember her lighting the oven with a match, which terrified all her friends!!
Magic Chef was the ONLY gas stove I ever saw till I was grown, I knew an older lady who had one, she sure could bake some wonderful cakes and pies. Everyone else I knew had electric ranges, hers was similar to the one pictured, but not as de luxe, I remember her lighting the oven with a match, which terrified all her friends!!
That stove reminds me an aweful lot of the stove my paternal grandmother had. What reminds me of the range are those pulls on the broiler drawer. the other thing that reminds me of her range is that metal around the oven knob, that's very vivid to me. I don't remember if the burner knobs were gray or white though, gray seems to be what I probably remember though. And Hans, she made some kick-ass anglefood cakes turkey & dressing, and lemon merangue pies from that oven.
I remember her lighting the oven with a match, which terrified all her friends!!
I remember those where the match went by a hole in the oven floor and the flame would get sucked down to the oven burners to ignite it.
My mom had a 70's gas range with a waist-high broiler that was in the same compartment as the main oven, (odd at the time for a gas stove; most broilers were under the oven (in a roll-out drawer with a lowerable front) and used the same burner tube for both.
Her broiler would suck the flame down form the left side top-burners' pilot-light to light its own pilot-light. Then, once ignition was proven, it would allow gas to flow to the e main (broiler) burner tube.
I remember those where the match went by a hole in the oven floor and the flame would get sucked down to the oven burners to ignite it.
My mom had a 70's gas range with a waist-high broiler that was in the same compartment as the main oven, (odd at the time for a gas stove; most broilers were under the oven (in a roll-out drawer with a lowerable front) and used the same burner tube for both.
Her broiler would suck the flame down form the left side top-burners' pilot-light to light its own pilot-light. Then, once ignition was proven, it would allow gas to flow to the e main (broiler) burner tube.
whirlcool
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My mom had a Kenmore that you lit that way. Just light a match, drop it in the hole and whoosh! flames!
One time my sister tried it when she was a teen. She turned on the gas but didn't have any matches. So she ran around the house looking for a match. She finally did find some and then she went back to the oven to light it. When she did there was a HUGE whoosh and I swear the oven came about a foot up off the floor! My sister got her hair & eyebrows singed and I was at the kitchen table watching it all. I escaped without any singed parts.
I wonder how many times this happened to people?
One time my sister tried it when she was a teen. She turned on the gas but didn't have any matches. So she ran around the house looking for a match. She finally did find some and then she went back to the oven to light it. When she did there was a HUGE whoosh and I swear the oven came about a foot up off the floor! My sister got her hair & eyebrows singed and I was at the kitchen table watching it all. I escaped without any singed parts.
I wonder how many times this happened to people?
Lots of old stoves were like this. Out in the country where there was just propane most gas stoves were lit by matches as no waste of standing gas flames to use the gas. Like Allen's sister had a neighbor that did this and it pushed out the sides of the stove. She pushed them back in and went on to bake. When rual electric came lots of farm women went to electric ranges and small gas ranges to have dural cooking but mostly used the electric unless power was lost. We had a fig Flair range and to the side a 2 burner gas top builtin.
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