What does the preheat function do on this range? Why does it exist?
PreHeat Function
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awooff
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Similar on all electric ovens - preheat turns on both top and bottom elements for quick heat up. But you dont want to forget to switch to bake else top of your dish will be burned
Similar on all electric ovens - preheat turns on both top and bottom elements for quick heat up. But you dont want to forget to switch to bake else top of your dish will be burned
These ovens used no top heat during bake. In order to get nicely golden browned biscuits, I baked them on the preheat setting after the oven was preheated.
Seems like that's the stove Golden Girls could have had, but maybe Rose got a better buy on buying the cooktop and oven separately considering how many cooktops she'd gone through it looks like her cooking has wrecked, while the occasionally used oven underneath has seen probably similar events...
-- Dave
-- Dave
Whirlpool Built Drop In Range
This range would have top-heat when in the bake mode, it also has Pre-Heat for faster pre-heating of the oven, only a minority of electric ovens offered a pre-heat setting, generally GE, HP, WH, and FD did not offer a pre-heat setting on their ovens.
John L.
This range would have top-heat when in the bake mode, it also has Pre-Heat for faster pre-heating of the oven, only a minority of electric ovens offered a pre-heat setting, generally GE, HP, WH, and FD did not offer a pre-heat setting on their ovens.
John L.
vacerator
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Didn't some
GE, and Kenmore ovens also have a pre-heat setting? Now they have Tru-Temp which automatically switches between the top and bottom elements for faster heating, yes John L.? I can hear my oven cycling differently as it heats up. The clicking is different every other time.
GE, and Kenmore ovens also have a pre-heat setting? Now they have Tru-Temp which automatically switches between the top and bottom elements for faster heating, yes John L.? I can hear my oven cycling differently as it heats up. The clicking is different every other time.
vacerator
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Also,
the Golden Girls stove had no oven. It was a fold down cabinet door. You see it when Rose's cake falls, and she slams it shut.
Whom ever was the set designer either had a tight budget, or was green. The yellow touchtone wall phone was loose and crooked. A drawer front was also crooked. The table was too small.
A home of that calibre would have had a much better fitted out kitchen, and a dining room, or large open plan.
the Golden Girls stove had no oven. It was a fold down cabinet door. You see it when Rose's cake falls, and she slams it shut.
Whom ever was the set designer either had a tight budget, or was green. The yellow touchtone wall phone was loose and crooked. A drawer front was also crooked. The table was too small.
A home of that calibre would have had a much better fitted out kitchen, and a dining room, or large open plan.
If the stove has top heat, then what does the pre-heat knob do? Does anyone have a tech sheet for a stove similar to this?
My aunt had a Hotpoint from the 60's with pre-heat. She would start the oven on pre-heat and the timer would buzz when it reached the correct setting and to remind you to switch it to bake.
1964 Martha Washington wall oven with automatic preheat. The thermostat apparently was two-stage and triggered bake and broil to run until a specific temp (or temp gradient against the selected target?) was reached at which point it cut back to only the bake element.
An aunt has a 2007 Kemore (rebadged Frigidaire) slide-in range with separate Pre Heat function.
My 2003/4 GE Profile doesn't have a preheat setting. It operates the broil element at lower output for standard bake. The graphics on the display change accordingly to a smaller or larger depiction of the broil element for the various modes.
My gas Tappan centennial range I had at my old house had a preheat function. It would use the broiler to heat to the temp you selected then shut off and the bottom burner was what maintained the temp from then on. Just like regular bake. Just preheated much faster with the broiler element on.
I cannot swear to this exact model,but the model of this range which was a cooktop attached to a wall oven that was in an apartment where I lived for a while did not have top heat during bake.
GE ovens offered top heat which was achieved by running the Broil element on 120 volts during bake so the 3000 watt element gave 750 watts of top heat. My 1954 Frigidaire RT70 offers automatic preheat through the thermostat in the large oven by turning the thermostat all the way to BROIL then back to the desired temperature. Before the oven reaches the set temperature, the inner portion of the broil element cuts out leaving just the lower wattage perimeter coil operating which cycles with the bake element for perfect baking. The little oven does not offer the automatic preheat through the thermostat because its petiteness does not require all of the extra wattage for preheating. The preheat function using the broil element spared the porcelain under the bake elements, one on each side.[this post was last edited: 7/27/2021-18:12]
GE ovens offered top heat which was achieved by running the Broil element on 120 volts during bake so the 3000 watt element gave 750 watts of top heat. My 1954 Frigidaire RT70 offers automatic preheat through the thermostat in the large oven by turning the thermostat all the way to BROIL then back to the desired temperature. Before the oven reaches the set temperature, the inner portion of the broil element cuts out leaving just the lower wattage perimeter coil operating which cycles with the bake element for perfect baking. The little oven does not offer the automatic preheat through the thermostat because its petiteness does not require all of the extra wattage for preheating. The preheat function using the broil element spared the porcelain under the bake elements, one on each side.[this post was last edited: 7/27/2021-18:12]
Was this all done for speed or more even preheat outcomes? Fascinating.
My mom would turn the control to broil, and then to the desired temperature, when preheating our '53 Westinghouse Imperial 30.
Do you have any idea why or how she came to such?
When I was the owner of an L & H 2 oven/6 burner stove, you dialed the desired temp and then push in the button above the dial to activate preheat. When it came up to temp the button "popped out" loudly. MY Grandparents 40"s Zenith range like CircleW's mom's range, you dialed all the way to broil and then back to desired temp to activate preheat. The backsplash lite up! I miss those stoves! They baked SO evenly! Greg
Chet, I assume she did so because that was what the instruction book said to do. I still have both the range and the book, but they are stored at this time, so can't check.
Its alright- no need to dig through stuff. I'm more interested in the Whirlpool range above.
I'm guessing pre-heat simply turns both broil and bake on 240 volts, but the bake setting puts 240 on the bottom 120 on the broiler? I dunno.
I'm guessing pre-heat simply turns both broil and bake on 240 volts, but the bake setting puts 240 on the bottom 120 on the broiler? I dunno.
I believe Robertshaw thermostats used the push button feature for preheat and Wilcolator thermostats used the turn up to broil and back to the desired temperature for preheating. There were Westinghouse ranges that used two different clocks and two different oven thermostats in the same model year and those owner's manuals were confusing.
