westinghouse terrace top stove
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Had one exactly like that for 3 months in a college apartment, except mine had a windowed door.
toploader55
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Beautiful Range.
I hope you find two. One for You and one for Me. LOL.
Good Luck with your search. Kevin313 has one.
This picture is RevvinKevin's or from his files.
The link is Kevin313's Range from his "Make ahead Turkey" Thread.
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I hope you find two. One for You and one for Me. LOL.
Good Luck with your search. Kevin313 has one.
This picture is RevvinKevin's or from his files.
The link is Kevin313's Range from his "Make ahead Turkey" Thread.
Make-Ahead Turkey
Often I will roast the turkey a day or two ahead of the big holiday feast, as I did this year for Thanksgiving. It makes things less hectic on the morning of the dinner and allows for easier service for the hungry crowd! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! P.S. - at around 1:30 on the...
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Keep an eye out on craigslist. It may take a while for one of these to turn up.
If you type "Terrace Top" into the search box at the top of this forum's home page, you will find lots of discussion about these ranges. They are great, unless you do canning; then it's hard to center the canner on the 8 inch unit.
philr
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There is a Continental with an upper oven currently for sale in Ontario.
I can't help but wonder about parts availability now days. I had one of these in my home back in 1977. The oven control was defective when we moved in. It was a part that had to be ordered and not cheap back then. Heaven help you finding that part 30+ years later.
norgeway
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Westinghouse ranges and parts...
Westinghouse built a really good well insulated range....but if you need a part ..good luck!..I think that is why people like the old GEs, Westinghouse and Frigidaire ranges were ,to me, much better built than GEs, But GEs are MUCH easier to get parts for.
Westinghouse built a really good well insulated range....but if you need a part ..good luck!..I think that is why people like the old GEs, Westinghouse and Frigidaire ranges were ,to me, much better built than GEs, But GEs are MUCH easier to get parts for.
Oooo that
Continental is NICE !!
Continental is NICE !!
Westinghouse innovations
One thing I can say about Westinghouse was that their engineers came up with some very clever and unique designs.
That terraced range top is certainly one of them. Can any of you remember the ranges that had the magnetic stirrer? One of the burners had a rotating magnetic field. You dropped the stirrer into a glass or other non-magnetic pot, pushed a button on the control panelm and the stirrer would catch the rotating field and turn, stirring your foods constantly so they would not burn while cooking.
Their electronic products were often quite innovative as well. The had a console color TV in the mid to late sixties that had a visual fine-tuning aid. Anyone under 50 reading this probably has no idea what I am talking about when I say "fine-tuning", ha. When you changed channels and wanted to fine tune it, you just touched a button and two black vertical bars appeared on the screen. When you rotated the fining tuning control, the two bars would converge into one when you had optimally tuned in the channel.
They were the first television manufacturer to have a rectangular color picture tube. I believe it was around 1958, give or take a year. However, they had continual convergence problems with it and went back to the conventional round color picture tube of the day. I think they only had the rectangular tube on the market for one model year before they pulled it. However, they were thinking into the future, their idea just needed a bit more work. It wasn't until 1965 that Motorola had a commercial successful rectangular color CRT.
Their Mobile-Air fans of the 40's, 50's and 60's were quite innovative by design and are still cool looking even today. (no pun intended)
They had some really innovative vacuum cleaners as well. Anyone remember the Nanette Fabray show? It was sponsored by Westinghouse and I loved to watch the shows just for the ads!!
One thing I can say about Westinghouse was that their engineers came up with some very clever and unique designs.
That terraced range top is certainly one of them. Can any of you remember the ranges that had the magnetic stirrer? One of the burners had a rotating magnetic field. You dropped the stirrer into a glass or other non-magnetic pot, pushed a button on the control panelm and the stirrer would catch the rotating field and turn, stirring your foods constantly so they would not burn while cooking.
Their electronic products were often quite innovative as well. The had a console color TV in the mid to late sixties that had a visual fine-tuning aid. Anyone under 50 reading this probably has no idea what I am talking about when I say "fine-tuning", ha. When you changed channels and wanted to fine tune it, you just touched a button and two black vertical bars appeared on the screen. When you rotated the fining tuning control, the two bars would converge into one when you had optimally tuned in the channel.
They were the first television manufacturer to have a rectangular color picture tube. I believe it was around 1958, give or take a year. However, they had continual convergence problems with it and went back to the conventional round color picture tube of the day. I think they only had the rectangular tube on the market for one model year before they pulled it. However, they were thinking into the future, their idea just needed a bit more work. It wasn't until 1965 that Motorola had a commercial successful rectangular color CRT.
Their Mobile-Air fans of the 40's, 50's and 60's were quite innovative by design and are still cool looking even today. (no pun intended)
They had some really innovative vacuum cleaners as well. Anyone remember the Nanette Fabray show? It was sponsored by Westinghouse and I loved to watch the shows just for the ads!!
AC vs DC electricity
Take it back a step further. I just saw a clip on the Decades channel stating it was Edison and Westinghouse who fought over what type of electrical power this country would use. Edison was pushing DC current, while Westinghouse was for AC current. Thank goodness AC won out, and later on even Edison admitted AC current was a superior design, even as his General Electric company lost out on that decision.
Take it back a step further. I just saw a clip on the Decades channel stating it was Edison and Westinghouse who fought over what type of electrical power this country would use. Edison was pushing DC current, while Westinghouse was for AC current. Thank goodness AC won out, and later on even Edison admitted AC current was a superior design, even as his General Electric company lost out on that decision.
Edison-Westinghouse feud
Yes, it was a bad feud between two very strong personalities. Even though George Westinghouse won, it is said he never forgave Edison for the slander.
Edison made a film of an elephant being electrocuted with AC current as propaganda to make people think AC was more dangerous. He also chose not to power the first electric chair. So Westinghouse generators were used. Edison then went on to say that the criminal had not been electrocuted but, "Westinghoused."
(BTW, the execution went very badly and current had to be applied several times before the prisoner was killed, resulting in a horrible and excruciating death.)
Yes, it was a bad feud between two very strong personalities. Even though George Westinghouse won, it is said he never forgave Edison for the slander.
Edison made a film of an elephant being electrocuted with AC current as propaganda to make people think AC was more dangerous. He also chose not to power the first electric chair. So Westinghouse generators were used. Edison then went on to say that the criminal had not been electrocuted but, "Westinghoused."
(BTW, the execution went very badly and current had to be applied several times before the prisoner was killed, resulting in a horrible and excruciating death.)
toploader55
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"No Turn Speed Broil" too.
I believe this was a feature on the same range with the "Auto Stirrer".
It had two Broiler Elements. One above and one below. You could broil both sides of a Steak or Chops at the same time. Wonder how that worked out ?
Anyone ever use a stove with this feature ?
I believe this was a feature on the same range with the "Auto Stirrer".
It had two Broiler Elements. One above and one below. You could broil both sides of a Steak or Chops at the same time. Wonder how that worked out ?
Anyone ever use a stove with this feature ?
I had a friend with this type of setup in their oven. The wife made steaks in the broiler for dinner. Steaks came out great but what a mess there was left over. She wiped out most of the mess but had to use the self clean cycle after. She never did that again, just used the top element. I don't know if somehow you are supposed to put a pan or something to catch the grease that was dripping.
Jon
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philr
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Here's one that's self-cleaning in Massachusetts.
toploader55
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Ooooooooooooo !!!
Thanks Phil.
I'm going to look into this.
Thanks Phil.
I'm going to look into this.
