This brochure just came in the mail and I'm loving it.
Rob and Laura buy their dream gas oven:
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You have to appreciate the Modren design of this panel even if I can't read all of the labels:
One of those Menonites in Topton must have just graduated from Industrial Design school. Dig that handle.
Rob and Laura's kitchen was only ever viewed in black and white so I don't know if they had the white, pink, canary or turquoise model but we know it wasn't coppertone
Rob and Laura's kitchen was only ever viewed in black and white so I don't know if they had the white, pink, canary or turquoise model but we know it wasn't coppertone
jasonl
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So 60s
My friend's house had an original Caloric "Ultra-ray" gas oven.
My friend's house had an original Caloric "Ultra-ray" gas oven.
danemodsandy
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Rob and Laura's Kitchen:
The major appliances on the kitchen set seen in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" were turquoise. I have a colour photo around here somewhere, and I'll post it if I can find it.
The major appliances on the kitchen set seen in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" were turquoise. I have a colour photo around here somewhere, and I'll post it if I can find it.
veg-o-matic
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Oh, my!
Pardon me a moment while I go change my panties...
veg
Pardon me a moment while I go change my panties...
veg
Panties all wet? Cleanup in aisle one
ooooh child my auntie had that oven in coppertone without the dial on the right.
Loved the Ultra-ray (infra-red wire-mesh blanket-of-flame "V" shaped broiler). And that broler compartment was huge.
IIRC the cooktop had a color coded control knobs and a color wheel with the same coding in the ceter of the four burner so you knew at a glance which knob to turn.
ooooh child my auntie had that oven in coppertone without the dial on the right.
Loved the Ultra-ray (infra-red wire-mesh blanket-of-flame "V" shaped broiler). And that broler compartment was huge.
IIRC the cooktop had a color coded control knobs and a color wheel with the same coding in the ceter of the four burner so you knew at a glance which knob to turn.
Oh Rob...
I have some pictures of the cooktops from the back of the brochure but they are in B&W; if you want, I'll scan them. Everytime I look at this generation of Calorics, I can't help but think somebody was doing drugs--they're so joyfully DESIGNED. I have an Ultramatic 40" stove coming to me and I'm delirious. Caloric, along with GM Frigidaire, Maytag and 50's and 60's GE's, was among the Olympian brands. I get a little disgusted when I think how this country has allowed its great manufacturing talent to falter.
I have some pictures of the cooktops from the back of the brochure but they are in B&W; if you want, I'll scan them. Everytime I look at this generation of Calorics, I can't help but think somebody was doing drugs--they're so joyfully DESIGNED. I have an Ultramatic 40" stove coming to me and I'm delirious. Caloric, along with GM Frigidaire, Maytag and 50's and 60's GE's, was among the Olympian brands. I get a little disgusted when I think how this country has allowed its great manufacturing talent to falter.
What was their 'fridge, Westy?
kennyGF
kennyGF
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WOW!
I saw one of these ovens when I picked up my '56 Hotpoint fridge in N.Y. It was in pank no less. That brochure is like finding eye teeth. Congrats.
I saw one of these ovens when I picked up my '56 Hotpoint fridge in N.Y. It was in pank no less. That brochure is like finding eye teeth. Congrats.
Ken, thanks for putting a stop to my head-scratching. I was thinking the same thing--I had never seen the Petries' kitchen in living color and thought I had maybe missed something along the way . . .
What a fabulous piece of industrial design those Caloric folks came up with. Just a beautiful thing, and I agree that this country has lost its way in this regard. Sad.
Ralph
What a fabulous piece of industrial design those Caloric folks came up with. Just a beautiful thing, and I agree that this country has lost its way in this regard. Sad.
Ralph
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I remember those Caloric wall ovens with their unusual glass windows and door handles.
Ross
Ross
The size and shape of those oven windows always make one think that some kind of pornography must be going on inside. Sort of like the darker side of PeeWee Herman's kitchen.
Hello, where do the tokens go?
Kinda like the sliding window shield on a GE P7 self-cleaner.
Kinda like the sliding window shield on a GE P7 self-cleaner.
Well hello some vegetarians believe what gets cooked in there is obscene!
scott55405
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These are amongst my favorite wall ovens. Does anyone know why gas wall ovens are so rare/nonexistent today?
danemodsandy
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Gas Wall Ovens
Take it from someone who taught cooking for most of the '80s- gas wall ovens used to be notoriously uneven bakers. I've known MORE people who have replaced them with electric units. For a long time, it was very hard to find gas wall ovens with self-cleaning- there just wasn't room in the package for everything needed, like extra insulation. New improvements in technology have improved the baking performance, and made self-cleaners more available, but a lot of people have bad memories of 1970s and '80s units, and haven't bothered to learn about the new improved models.
Take it from someone who taught cooking for most of the '80s- gas wall ovens used to be notoriously uneven bakers. I've known MORE people who have replaced them with electric units. For a long time, it was very hard to find gas wall ovens with self-cleaning- there just wasn't room in the package for everything needed, like extra insulation. New improvements in technology have improved the baking performance, and made self-cleaners more available, but a lot of people have bad memories of 1970s and '80s units, and haven't bothered to learn about the new improved models.
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Interesting...I hadn't known all that. I'm much more electric cooking oriented personally even though I have gas now, but I had observed the dearth of gas units vis a vis electric.
danemodsandy
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scott55405:
Scott- Gas ovens have always had one basic problem. There must be air flowing into the oven through an air intake to support the combustion of the flame, and there must be a outlet vent to permit combustion byproducts to escape. With air constantly flowing into and out of an oven, it's pretty difficult for that oven to maintain a truly constant temperature.
By contrast, electric ovens don't require airflow to support combustion, so the air inside them stays much more still, promoting more even heating. There are outlet vents in electric ovens, but those are there to permit moisture to escape outward during baking- there's no corresponding intake of air.
On higher-quality gas ovens, good design can minimise problems to an amazing degree, but a cheap electric oven can outperform many expensive gas units.
Scott- Gas ovens have always had one basic problem. There must be air flowing into the oven through an air intake to support the combustion of the flame, and there must be a outlet vent to permit combustion byproducts to escape. With air constantly flowing into and out of an oven, it's pretty difficult for that oven to maintain a truly constant temperature.
By contrast, electric ovens don't require airflow to support combustion, so the air inside them stays much more still, promoting more even heating. There are outlet vents in electric ovens, but those are there to permit moisture to escape outward during baking- there's no corresponding intake of air.
On higher-quality gas ovens, good design can minimise problems to an amazing degree, but a cheap electric oven can outperform many expensive gas units.
