PreHeat setting
John, as I remember, the preheat setting had both the broiler and the bake gas levels on full blast. I think the broiler burner shifted to the more supplemental mode (for baking/browning) after 5-10 minutes in the preheat mode). I remember it helped the oven come up to temp much faster than just regular bake setting.
I moved into that house March 1985. By late October 1985 I was informed I'd be relocating to Central Texas. The days before Thanksgiving 1985 we did my first house hunting trip on the way to Dallas to spend the holiday with my sister. Before I began the move process in January 1986, I ran the SC on the oven the one and only time. I heard the metal popping from expansion that first time. I think I shed a few tears knowing that was to be my only time. The builder had upgraded because I didn't want another of those damn continuous clean ovens. I'd had one in my first house and by January 1986, I knew my new house as also going to have one again. And I had that damn thing until I got the KA Induction double oven range May 2016 or 2017. The first time I claned each of the two ovens, I was taken back to January 1986 again remembering the empty feeling I had knowing that Tappan wasn't going to be my range any longer. I've looked at a few real estate listing from that subdivision in the last year, and a couple of the houses still had those original Tappan ranges.
John, as I remember, the preheat setting had both the broiler and the bake gas levels on full blast. I think the broiler burner shifted to the more supplemental mode (for baking/browning) after 5-10 minutes in the preheat mode). I remember it helped the oven come up to temp much faster than just regular bake setting.
I moved into that house March 1985. By late October 1985 I was informed I'd be relocating to Central Texas. The days before Thanksgiving 1985 we did my first house hunting trip on the way to Dallas to spend the holiday with my sister. Before I began the move process in January 1986, I ran the SC on the oven the one and only time. I heard the metal popping from expansion that first time. I think I shed a few tears knowing that was to be my only time. The builder had upgraded because I didn't want another of those damn continuous clean ovens. I'd had one in my first house and by January 1986, I knew my new house as also going to have one again. And I had that damn thing until I got the KA Induction double oven range May 2016 or 2017. The first time I claned each of the two ovens, I was taken back to January 1986 again remembering the empty feeling I had knowing that Tappan wasn't going to be my range any longer. I've looked at a few real estate listing from that subdivision in the last year, and a couple of the houses still had those original Tappan ranges.