Vintage stove, NYC/NJ...
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Neat-O! That's a cutie!
AND there is a Gas 400 like mine in Kenmore NY. eBay item 150020941282
It sounds like it has the same problem mine had with the oven door.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tappan-Fabulous...ryZ71250QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
AND there is a Gas 400 like mine in Kenmore NY. eBay item 150020941282
It sounds like it has the same problem mine had with the oven door.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tappan-Fabulous...ryZ71250QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Those have to be two of the world's ugliest oven vents. They almost recall the toothy early 50s Buick grills, except for the lack of graceful lines. From the number of dials on the left and that second oven vent, there must be a broiler behind the side swing door (that does not align with the oven door) next to the oven, maybe even a Microray broiler with the ceramic burner that produced infra-red heat, like an electric broiler!
Please do not take personal offense Mistereric. If you like gas stoves with sort of a jarring appearance, it is great. I hope someone who really wants it is able to obtain it.
Please do not take personal offense Mistereric. If you like gas stoves with sort of a jarring appearance, it is great. I hope someone who really wants it is able to obtain it.
jasonl
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Crown
I have an aunt who has a "crown" stove in avocado. The control knobs are on top going down the right hand side. Definitely an unusual stove.
I have an aunt who has a "crown" stove in avocado. The control knobs are on top going down the right hand side. Definitely an unusual stove.
and the question we all want to know.......
How big is it?
...and what does that knob do if I were to grab it and turn it?
is there a waist-high broiler on the left side? Just an oven? Both and oven, with a broiler in the drawer?
How big is it?
...and what does that knob do if I were to grab it and turn it?
is there a waist-high broiler on the left side? Just an oven? Both and oven, with a broiler in the drawer?
jasonl
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The stove is a 40", other than that, I don't know a whole lot about it.
Was I too harsh? Toggle, please read what I wrote. Behind the side swing door there is probably a waist-high broiler. There is only one thermostat and that is for the main oven. Yes, on some high end gas stoves, a waist-high broiler was offered to keep the cook up off the floor and so that you could broil while using the oven. I remember when mom and dad bought the Crown gas stove. One night mom tried to broil something. I guess she had not had trouble broiling in the old electric stove that was originally in the house. With the shallow broiler pan, the grease caught fire. She turned the oven off and turned her back to do something. I immediately went over and pulled the oven door open just a bit and I could see flames jumping up between the oven bottom and the side walls and it was neat with lots of orange light and lots of movement with the shifting pattern of the fire. Mom made me shut the door so that the fire would go out. We never broiled again in that stove. Unlike most gas stoves of the early 50s, it did not have black burner grates; they were an attractive gray with a bit of blue. The burners were Harper Center Simmer and the burner pans were classic Crown, but not in chrome. They were white porcelain like the rest of the coktop. It was a 40 inch stove so, judging by the space between the burners of the yellow stove in play, I would almost wonder if it might not be a 36 incher. We had space between our burners for a pretty wide stove mat that was probably asbestos on the back and painted steel crimped around it. There was plenty of room for it between the burners. Our next door neighbor had a 36" Dixie. She bought a new yellow Rubbermaid mat to go between the burners, the kind with the sort of shiny metalic panel surrounded by the rubber. I saw it brand new and then a little while later, when all of the yellow border had been hacked away with some of the crudest cutting outside of a bris. I asked what had happened and she said that the rubber had burned from the heat that came out from under skillets. But she swore that she would never have an electric stove. Then they moved to a new house with a Frigidaire Compact 30. You have to admit going from the rapid response of a gas flame to big thick Radiantube units might not be the best introduction to electric cooking, but when they built a house a few years later, I went over for dinner and they had chosen the 30" wide Whirlpool wall oven and WP built-in electric cooktop. She said that she had loved the big oven in the Frigidaire and I guess she did not need to say that she had changed her thinking about electric cooking.
