Proof of a Frigidaire oven!!

[norgeway]

The Nurses at work have a covered dish supper on the weekends I work, so I usually get drafted into making biscuits or some kind of dessert, this week it is biscuits, look how even that old Frigidaire bakes!

 

[norgeway]

Exactly!

The same, top and bottom!!

 

[norgeway]

I had a few too many...

For one pan, so I used Berthas old pan for the rest...Bertha was our neighbor who had the stove, she passed away this Summer at almost 102, when I went to get the stove, her biscuit pan was still in the drawer, I have eaten many good biscuits off of it when I was a child, she started housekeeping with it in 1935.

 

[norgeway]

I cant figure out!!

Most of those nurses say they can't make biscuits...Biscuits are easy, its PASTRY that is difficult!

 

[maytagbear]

Beautiful, Hans,

those biscuits are simply BEAUTIFUL.

I love a gas cooktop, but I can admit that a GOOD electric oven can bake very well.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[appnut]

Show off LOL. (Just kidding). Yes Frigidaires were superior cooking machines as far as I'm concerned. I have no doubt Bertha is looking down just beaming with pride at what enjoyment you are derriving from using her range. I can relate. I've never been able to make a good biscuit from scratch and I've even tried your easy recipe.

 

[rockland1]

Old Pans

I believe older pans for whatever reason bake better.

 

[laundromat]

looks like an RSE36SA

 

[retromania]

Beautiful

Yum!!

 

[arbilab]

We had 1963 Flair twin ovens. They were VERY competent. Apparently Frigidaire was an upscale builder brand in those days.

 

[danemodsandy]

Great Minds Think Alike....

....Hans, I have those West Bend canisters too, though mine are the silver aluminum color and not the copper-anodized.

I wasn't sure I'd like them when I bought them - I needed something in a hurry. But they've been the most satisfactory canisters I've ever owned.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Most any of the better electric ranges that supplied top heat during baking baked well and evenly. The Ropers and early 70s WP ovens did not use top heat during baking and therefore did not bake biscuits as well. The WP I had in an apartment had to be left on the Preheat setting during the 10 minutes of baking to decently brown the tops of biscuits. The preheat setting used both the bake and broil elements at full wattage.

Where Frigidaire ovens are real powerhouses is in their broiling. Each oven in my 61 has a 3700 watt broiler element and the other night when I broiled burgers in the short oven, I noticed pops being converted into flashes of flame. Among the ranges I have used, I have only seen that in Frigidaire ranges with sealed Radiantube broiling elements. The open coil broilers in my 54 Frigidaire are very fast and even also.

I remember users of gas ovens having to give cakes and pies a quarter turn once or twice during the baking process because of uneven flame making one side of the oven hotter. Then gas stoves got cheap and instead of using the heavy cast iron or steel plate above the burner, they used a thinner piece of steel that could warp and provide uneven heat distribution to the oven cavity which resulted in uneven baking. My mother's Crown had a heavy plate and a few minutes into the preheat there would be this big DUNG sound when the plate expanded. The thermal inertia of the plate often resulted in a piddle of water on the kitchen floor at the front corner of the stove where water vapor in the gas drained after condensing on that slab of metal in the early stages of preheating.

 

[retromania]

Tom

I don't understand what you meant when you said 'pops turned into flashes of flame?'

 

[rp2813]

The "pops" might best be described as grease spatters.  When they hit the coil, they flare up.  This used to happen under the open coil broiler of my mom's '49 Westinghouse Commodore all the time.

 

Hans, those perfect results are really impressive.  My 2008 Electrolux Icon with "soft heat" hidden oven coil can't even come close to that kind of even baking.

 

[retromania]

Yes

Of course!

 

[norgeway]

Broiling!!!

Is NEVER done in any of my stoves, I dont like cleaning up the mess!!LOL

 

[retromania]

Hans

I am a HUGE Frigidaire fan. You wouldn't have any additional photos of Frigidaire stoves or othere appliances you have owned that haven't been posted?

 

[tomturbomatic]

In my 61 with pull 'n clean oven, I took two pieces of Heavy Duty oven foil and placed them in an L shape along the sides of the rack and covering the side walls up to the broiler element. There is air circulation behind them, but they catch splatters so there is less oven cleaning. The foil does not totally cover the rack where the broiler pan sits.

Those spatters make neat little "pow" noises that are sort of combination of explosion and ignition. I love neat noises. The little flashes of flame are fun, too.

 

[miele_ge]

can we have the recepie

they look awesome!

 

[frigilux]

Consumer Reports would have to give that a rating of Excellent for evenness of baking!

 

[mixguy]

Frigidaire Broiling Accessories

Were there not some stainless steel broiler pans that some members here have posted pictures of to minimize the mess of broiling?

 

[gansky1]

Those look delicious! Gotta love a warm biscuit with butter and jelly - or honey - or...

What kind of baking sheet is that, Hans? The pan used makes a lot of difference too - I've all but given up on trying to get even baking (browning) results on non-stick sheets.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The Frigidaire Radiant Wall Broiler Pan was introduced about the same time as the Pull 'n Clean oven. It was a two piece affair with a deep aluminum pan with a chromed rack in the bottom and Bakelite handles on both sections. The pan sat on a shallower pan that had cold water added to it, the purpose of which was to cool the fat that dripped into the upper pan. In use, the pan was used on a set rack position in the master oven and the Broiler Grill dial was used to select the intensity of the heat input: high for rare and lower heats for well done. The high sides were intended to keep the oven clean. I don't know how well the pan broiled or how much fun it was to reach past the high hot sides to flip burgers on the wire rack in the bottom of the pan. Either pan could be used as a roasting pan and they could be combined and used as a covered roaster

 

[mixguy]

Thank you Tomturbomatic

I hope members that have the pans will comment.

 

[norgeway]

Re Baking pan..

The large jelly roll pan that I used is a Doughmakers brand, it is fairly heavy aluminum and the surface of it looks pebbeled and it really is superior in my opinion, the old pan that Bertha had is just a plain black steel pan.

 

[danemodsandy]

Running With the Famous....

Hans:

I just thought you'd like to see this shot of the West Bend canisters you and I own; it's from the "The Celebrity Next Door" episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, originally aired December 3rd, 1957. This is the famous Tallulah Bankhead episode. The set is of Tallulah's kitchen, and it included the complete set of canisters and the bread box, which is very HTF now.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have that dishwasher! I wonder if Miss Bankhead would know how to load a dishwasher or if she knew what one was.

 

[retromania]

That's the one where Ms. Bankhead was dining with Lucy & Ricky. Ethel & Fred posed as a couple hired to work for them and Fred dropped the biscuits. Prior to that though, she said: "Mother always said take two and butter 'em while they're hot!"

 

[arbilab]

Do NOT sit on those chairs!

Is that a KA DW? Their habit putting the timer on the kick.

 

[appnut]

That's a Hotpoint dishwasher!!