Poppy Red Frigidaire Stove

[oldskool]

Someone in/near Detroit may be interested in this:

 

Have seen many comments about how good these ranges cooked.  I've never personally cooked on one, but would love to try.  The red is beautiful and appears to be in fairly good condition.  A bit pricey however.

 

 

http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/ppd/3234623802.html

 

[appnut]

John, it's a beautiful range and looks well cared for.  I'd go for it!!  I personally thought Frigidairee cooking appliances were wonderful and I can tell you that from my parents havingh a kitchen with a cook top and double wall oven from the beginning of high school all the way through college. 

 

[norgeway]

JUST LIKE!

My avocado range...I wish mine was poppy!!!That is a beautiful range, those were great stoves.

 

[petek]

It does look nice... Would everyone agree that poppy was probably the least common of the 4 colors back then. They don't seem to crop up as often imo. 

 

btw looks like that may be an appliance dealer selling it.. can see a couple of fridges in the background. 

 

[oldskool]

Burners

Because I use the two larger burners so much on my current stove, I hesitate to purchase one with 3 smaller burners and only 1 large.  We do a lot of large meal preparation.  Otherwise it is absolutely beautiful, IMHO.

John

 

[fido]

Would it have had exposed oven elements like that or are there bits missing?

 

[laundromat]

This model (RSM36GP) was introduced in 1969 and was FRIGIDAIRE'S best selling electric range( The RSE36S was the one CR rated but the only differences were the 36S has the Electriclean oven and no window) for years and was rated number 1 in CR for at least 4 years. They added a ceramic top model.Then in 1973, the Touch and Cook model was introduced. Like the Chevy Novas, Frigidaire(GM) based all their 30" ranges, free standing and drop in models, on this model.In quality and features,it was second only to GE in my own opinion.

 

[rp2813]

It's a Dealer

The first clue was the asking price, but no clues are necessary.  It's right there in the hierarchy of CL headings at the top.

 

Not all that bad a price considering the rare color and the build quality compared to a new stove, but I'll bet the dealer is willing to negotiate.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, this would jump start my interest in electric stoves...

If I wouldn't get rid of my new gas range for this in my house, it would be worth it to jettison my late-mom's Maytag smooth-top, then...

And 3 six inch & 1 eight inch burner set up wouldn't really bother me; I've had a GE range designed with that in my apartment & somehow got along w/o the extra 8" and suspect my dad might could too...

-- Dave

 

[danemodsandy]

One 8-Inch Element.....

....Is a giveaway that a range was BOL or lower MOL, at least for ranges from the later '60s on up. Earlier, even luxury ranges like GE's 30-inch Stratoliner of the late '50s, could have only a single 8-incher.

I personally do not like the arrangement; I prefer upper MOL or TOL ranges with two 8-inchers. You can saute on one, and boil up a big pot of water for pasta on another, that kind of thing. With only one big burner, you are much more limited if you really cook.

The other thing I don't like is that with only one big burner, it tends to wear out fairly quickly, since it's the most-used burner on the average person's range. Two big burners allow you to rotate usage between them, with the result that the two burners last longer than one burner and its replacement, at least in my experience.

 

[philr]

Frigidaire sold a lot of ranges in the late sixties and seventies with only one 8" burner and no console light. Most of them being Super and DeLuxe models but there were even Imperial ranges with a single 8" burner (at least here in Canada!). Frigidaire did a lot of advertisement for it's BOL and MOL models and some models even featured things like a self-cleaning oven or a hot water dispenser but still no second 8" burner...

 

Strangely, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, all Frigidaire ranges but the Super models had a console light and all 30" models had two 8" burners.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Frigidaire "Deluxe", "Super", etc.

I'm surprised that while Frigidaire had a unique 'flat' design for its burners, (of which I made one out of clay at the open house at my daughter's school to put the play pots & pans on & pretend to cook) that there wasn't a similar design for the oven bake & broil elements; the elements there look the same as in any other electric range...

Also I also just noticed that this range is not self-cleaning (and my dad--well mostly me, from cooking at his place--got behind on running the S/C in his oven; that's my job to do again)...

-- Dave

 

[franksdad]

Self-cleaning oven

Would this model be a "continuous cleaning" oven which was popular back the the 70's and touted as an energy saving feature?  If so, that would explain why it was not self-cleaning.  When my Mama ordered her TOL Frigidaire stove in 1974 she asked for continuous cleaning but was told, and it was verified by the brochures we looked at, that all Frigidaire TOL model ovens were self-cleaning only.

Beautiful stove, BTW.

 

[georgect]

Love those big coils

The house we moved into had a free standing range just like that in white but also had a smaller oven overhead attached to it.

I think I like the big fat coils better than the skinny coils we now have on a (crappy) GE.

 

[bajaespuma]

Better than a domestic gas range, in almost every way.

We had this exact model (in coppertone) in a home and it performed like a champ. This model was also check-rated by Consumers Reports at the time for the speed of its burners, speed of the oven for evenness of baking and broiling and the capacity of the oven. It is a bit pricey, but if I were in the market for a new 30" stove, this would be my choice, Poppy Red or not, hands down. My only gripe would be that I'd like another 8" burner. But with these burners, it almost doesn't make too much of a difference.