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What color would you call that anyone? Pink or salmon? Love that color almost as much as turquois. It would be hard to choose! Maybe one in one color and something else in the other.

Just thinking out loud!

Andy
 
Frigidaire's "Rainbow of Colors" at the time were:

Sunny Yellow, Mayfair Pink, Classic Turquoise, Charcoal Gray, and Aztec Copper...

...Along w/ WHITE! ...At least from what I remember, from a Frigidaire ad on built-in ovens & range tops in a 1959 National Geographic...

-- Dave
 
Bonus:

Good range, though in lieu of a "Convection Oven" it has a feature called "Quick Bake", (of which I've called Frigidaire or Electrolux--as the co. is now owned by--for an explanation on the feature (or rather that my "convection" didn't seem to work, but they wanted to send someone to my house (& possibly charge me $$$$$$!) in stead of telling me the differnce)...

And I wish that "FRIGIDAIRE" were written in the fancy almost-cursive script or at least had the "crown" rather than it being displayed plainly on the oven door (much like how it'd look if it were a VIKING range!)... (My Maytag dishwasher is the same way: The name in the "new emblem" is in the door between the touch-pad controls; nowhere on the door, as it would be if it were a Kitchen Aid--though w/o the "Hobart" imprint...)

I'm sure it's OK to say this range is really a "ROPER", as when that brand became scarce, owning a non-GM or in this case non-WCI Electrolux-owned became in vogue, albeit a far cry from when Frigidaire mainly made electrics...

(That's right, I wish my 2000-something appliances would be a little like apps' from "Back In The Day", though I could NEVER live without my Whirlpool CONQUEST Side X Side, which stores the ice cubes in the freezer door! --Now let's see your General Electric AMERICANA do THAT!!!!)

-- Dave

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The bonus is the cute little kid......your's I presume? Precious!!!

As you the know, the modern day mfg's have to give people what they think they want! A lot of the new day appliances are handsome and impressive and some are really quite good. They just don't ZING me. I've always loved old vintage appliances. Since I was kid. People I'm sure thought I was wierd. When Hobart no longer manufactured KitchenAid, I cried inside! When GM quit Frigidaire - same. It's all about increasing the bottom line, cheap productions costs, etc, etc, etc.

NOW. My agenda is to buy a good used truck. Yes. I don't even own a truck! A set of appliance handtrucks. A few books from the local library and a course or two in mechanics at the tech school up the road. Best of all would be if I had a bud in the area that was into all of this. Then I could learn from observation! Would that be great? Dream! Dream! Dream!

Anyway, dude, thanks for the pics and I would be inerested to hear what that feature is in the back of the oven if it's not a convection fan.

Later,
Andy
 
Yes, that's daughter Laura, there! --MY Daughter, that is! I thyink I wanted to get some shots of the apps' in the background, too, as well as the milestone of her first using her walker--though unfortunately now trying to climb in--and OUT of--it, herself...! (Gasp...!)

As for the "convection fan", I hear NO fan noise, when I select "Quick Bake" on the range's control panel & inquiries both to the manufacturer and even an appliance dealer, don't seem to tell me that this stove does NOT have a "true convection"--just mainly offers from the mfr. to "buy a service contract" and/or get someone to come to my house to "fix it"...

So I'm left w/ the idea that it's just something there for "looks" as I don't think I get much of a "boost" in baking performance, either, whenever I use it...

It's my first gas range, & I've always wanted a gas range & my mom & mother-in-law, grandmas, etc., as well as the apt. we've lived in before we got our house in Nov. 2009, all had ELECTRIC RANGES & I wanted GAS!

So I got! ...Cheers!

-- Dave
 
Frigidaire had something called "speed bake" that you selected via a rocker switch.
All it did was turn on the convection fan in the back wall of the oven. Not sure if gas ranges had it, but I know electric ones did.
 
Well, she's a cute as she can be. Don't imagine you have a whole lot time to fiddle with stove anyway with that bundle of energy around. I remember when my nephew was a toddler and I was in my 20's - phew. He was a handful! I can't imagine what it would be like now. Enjoy her. They grow up so fast!

Maybe it's a convection feature that's broken. My Maytage electric range has a big oven. There's a round indentation on the back wall of the oven that suggests a fan could go there. Does your's look like it has a fan? Is there grillwork or wire mesh or anything like that to suggest there might be a fan behind it? I think you commented above and I need to go back and read again what you said.
 
I've poked my head in the oven & can see there's fan there... However, I don't think I've seen it turn, & then again, maybe it's just a "baffle" and maybe the fan is deep in that recessed fixture, somewhere behind it... I hear a "faint hum", if that...

How-so-ever, Convection to me doesn't seem to be that important, anyway... My sister went from an ancient RCA Whirlpool electric cooktop w/ 3 small burners & 1 large one (which gave out & that one was soldered in, unlike the small ones which were plug-in's--more easily replaced,--and NO indicator lights that would tell that the thing was even ON!--and an equally antique matching wall oven w/ no self-cleaning, but at least automatic baking--of which the timer would be waaaayyyy extremely complicated even with consulting the owner's guide!--and the darn thing wasn't even connected right, as the elements tended to cycle up & down as it was baking (I don't think she ever broiled with it) to a Jenn Aire electric glass top cooktop--much like what you'd expect a NEW one to be like: Touch Pads, Adjustable "Burners" & all; and, too, you had to be sure those touch pads wouldn't accidentally be turned on, too! As well as a full-featured Maytag electric wall-oven w/ convection cooking! ("That thing will just BREAK!", my mom would say... She went from a basic Bradford w/ the knobs on the panel above the oven, in harvest gold, to a Tappan double-decker range/microwave/self-cleaning conventional oven combination, in almond, to a Montgomery Ward "DESIGNER SERIES by Tappan", also in almond & self-cleaning, to a white Maytag w/ a glass cooking surface, & a self-cleaning oven, but by now she's grown so disenchanted w/ the self-cleaning feature, that she really let that oven go & it's hopelessly getting dirtier & dirtier...)

The fan there tends to make a lot of noise, & while it speeds up baking, I guess I can't necessarily say I'd envy anyone w/ a "turbo oven"...! (I refuse to use my fan on my range hood, because I dislike the noise, & found both the one in my home--which incidentally CAME WITH all those fancy appliances--and the apt. we lived in ineffective at filtering the air & preventing the smoke detector from going off (both places have/had a super-sensitive one placed right near our cooking area--not that I would ever neglect to watch what I'm making...)

Yes, "Daddy's Little Girl" she IS! In every way... Everyone says she looks like me, right from when she was born! --More to come...!

-- Dave
 
One has to know what one wants in an appliance or you end up with a bunch of features you don't use. I like to cook and I like to entertain, but the one thing I want next time around is an extra oven. My dream stove is to find either an elecric or gas 40 in range with oven and little oven to the left. As vintage appliances have become vogue with the general public, vintage appliances are becoming harder to find and sometimes you have to pay several hundred dollars just to acquire said appliance. That's why I'm going to learn restoration because it's the only way I will be able to afford to put in a vintage kitchen like I really want. I digress - sorry!

Yes. Been there and done that with exhaust hoods that trip the fire alarm. When I do my kitchen over the fan WIll be vented to the outside. My place was built in 1941 so the kitchen is utilitarian. There wasn't even a washer hook-up because everyone had a laundry man or either washboard and clothesline!

When my mom upgraded her kitchen and replaced the stove, there were things she didn't like about the stove and never used.

Talk soon~
 
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