michaelman2
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I seem to remember that filling a bowl with ammonia and placing it in an oven overnight would help clean the oven? I am too lazy to Google and verify.
Oven Interiors
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danemodsandy
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That Works....
....On a very lightly soiled oven.
For anything normal, fuggedaboudit.
....On a very lightly soiled oven.
For anything normal, fuggedaboudit.
retromania
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Sandy,
That's it. That's what she used.
That's it. That's what she used.
retromania
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Dear Gussie!
To try and keep a white oven interior clean. Must have driven some poor souls slap crazy!
To try and keep a white oven interior clean. Must have driven some poor souls slap crazy!
Kenmore brown oven interiors
Here's an electric Kenmore with the brown interior (pardon that it is not as clean as it should be...). Note this one has the cool 'full vu' glass interior door. Instead of a window in the oven door, it has a glass inner door; you can open the main door either with the inner door, to access the oven, or by pushing a button on the door when you open it, the inner glass door stays in place, allowing you to have a 'full vu' of your delicious meal in the oven!
Here's an electric Kenmore with the brown interior (pardon that it is not as clean as it should be...). Note this one has the cool 'full vu' glass interior door. Instead of a window in the oven door, it has a glass inner door; you can open the main door either with the inner door, to access the oven, or by pushing a button on the door when you open it, the inner glass door stays in place, allowing you to have a 'full vu' of your delicious meal in the oven!
my grandmother had one of the Quick-Clean Hotpoint stoves from the mid 60s with the Teflon oven linings. It was a slightly shiny grey color and as promised was pretty easy to wipe out. It was a very rattly oven though with all the separate pieces (the linings were flat pieces of sheet steel which slid behind the rack guides which were chromed wire, and everything rattled when you walked past. It wasn't a "cheap--tinny" rattle, but it was noisy all the same. I remember repairing the oven element once...it blew and pitted the teflon coating.
retromania
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Oh. So that's Teflon?! It is the color of some of the early Teflon. Jeff, Love that Kenmore gas range!!! Love all that chrome on the top.
Linings...
Before self-cleaning was available, didn't several manufacturers have forms of removeable interior panels, that could either be cleaned or were disposable? I knew that Kelvinator had foil panels in the mid-to-late 50s.
Before self-cleaning was available, didn't several manufacturers have forms of removeable interior panels, that could either be cleaned or were disposable? I knew that Kelvinator had foil panels in the mid-to-late 50s.
retromania
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Jeff,
Is the bottom portion of the oven broken or is it just not positioned in there properly?
Is the bottom portion of the oven broken or is it just not positioned in there properly?
It is not positioned properly... I just brought this home a week or two ago and have not had time over the holidays to do anything but basic positioning...
And re. the oven liners... sometimes you stumble onto cool things... when I was looking at a 55-56 Kelvinator range, in the storage drawer below the oven was a full package of the foil-like oven original Kelvinator oven liners!
And re. the oven liners... sometimes you stumble onto cool things... when I was looking at a 55-56 Kelvinator range, in the storage drawer below the oven was a full package of the foil-like oven original Kelvinator oven liners!
1957
The electric version appears to be a 57 model placing it well before Teflon. What a cool color and cool design. It would have a year before the famous melting controls and backsplash of the Kenmore and Whirlpool of the the next year.
The electric version appears to be a 57 model placing it well before Teflon. What a cool color and cool design. It would have a year before the famous melting controls and backsplash of the Kenmore and Whirlpool of the the next year.
retromania
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OMG!
You mean some models came out in '58 where controls melted? Yuck. Very nice electric and gas ranges for Kenmore. Wonder who manufactured them for Sears.
You mean some models came out in '58 where controls melted? Yuck. Very nice electric and gas ranges for Kenmore. Wonder who manufactured them for Sears.
retromania
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Well thre's my answer right there.....
Melting controls on Kenmore and 'WHIRLPOOL' for the next year!
Melting controls on Kenmore and 'WHIRLPOOL' for the next year!
retromania
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I'm surprised someone never came out with more than just a disposable drip pan like a disposable oven interior. Too awkward and costly I guess.
