What kind of ranges

davey7 · Oct 21, 2016

Wasn't the infamous Fanny Craddock sponsored by The Gas Board?

ilovewindex · Oct 23, 2016

Justin Wilson

Does any one remember Justin wilson? I always found it odd he used an ALMOND whirlpool looking cooktop in his later shows..never could confirm it was a whirlpool but looks like it

Loading…

https

ilovewindex · Oct 23, 2016

Justin Wilson Older Set

I am assuming these are all GE appliances, given the fridge looks like a GE

Loading…

https

ea56 · Oct 23, 2016

I guarantee that I remember Justin Willson. That was a phrase that he used often during very episode of his show, "I guarantee it", in his inimitable Cajun accent.
Eddie[this post was last edited: 10/23/2016-17:05]

combo52 · Oct 23, 2016

Appliances in JW cooking shows

The first link was a cheap Roper built KM CT, the second link was 70s Hotpoint appliances.

miele_ge · Oct 23, 2016

the cool thing about all this is....

... if you know how to cook, you can cook on just about anything. Years ago, a good friend of ours, and a professional chef/cook had a POS RCA BOL (did I use up my quota on TLAs?) electric range in his home kitchen. Always had fabulous food, often with a very French flair, at his home.

frigilux · Oct 23, 2016

Gas vs. electric is the range version of front-load vs. top-load. Had one of each in the kitchen until The Great Downsizing of 2014. I went with electric for several reasons. I'm a bit of an anomaly around here, preferring glass top electrics and HE front-loaders.

ea56 · Oct 23, 2016

I have to agree with Alan in reply #24, a good cook can cook on anything. You just make adjustments for the type of heat source you are using. A gas stove won't make a bad cook magically better. Now, granted we all have our preferences, most people like one over the other. I've cooked on just about everything over the years, and given a choice I'll take an electric coil top. To me gas is slower, at least the newer less expensive home versions. And its dirtier too. Our last home had a GE gas stove, builder grade. We had white formica counters and I had to scrub them down at least every other week to keep the film from the gas stove off of them.

I have cooked on my nieces Frigidaire gas stove and it takes forever for anything to come to a boil. In comparison my GE coil top is very fast. I can bring a 6 qt. pot of water to a boil in about 12-13 mins., on my nieces gas stove try 25-28 mins. It's like watching paint dry.
Eddie

appnut · Oct 23, 2016

I'm like Eugene. Prefer electric cooking and front load washers. I grew up with gas and my first two houses had gas ranges. But apartments during and after college as well as current house have electric coil ranges. I've learned to turn off "heat" a minute or two before one needs to to utilize the reserve heat from the coils. My partner is gas spoiled. Hence the move to induction before he moves here.

fan-of-fans · Oct 24, 2016

Justin Wilson

That's the Cajun one I was thinking of earlier. I remembered he had an electric cooktop, but watching that video reminded me what it looked like. Thanks.

fan-of-fans · Oct 24, 2016

Also in the credits I noticed "Sears Contract Sales" would explain the Kenmore cooktop. It also looks like there was a solid element Kenmore cooktop to his right side. And there's that unusual mixer I remember too.

askolover · Oct 24, 2016

Gas rocks, but induction blows everything away!

vacerator · Oct 25, 2016

Did Donna Reed

have Frigidaire?
Induction is state of the art for sure! Easy clean up too!

mixguy · Oct 25, 2016

Donna Reed

Donna Reed had three kitchen makeovers. The first range/stove was a large one having a griddle between the burners. and glass window in the oven door. The last kitchen had Whirlpool coppertone appliances. Wall oven, and refrigerator. The cooktop in the counter was never shown at an angle to identify. There were two different mixers: at first a GE model 25 and later, a Sears 12 speed stand mixer on the counter.

mixguy · Oct 25, 2016

Graham Kerr

I thought Westinghouse was a sponsor of the show. The refrigerator and freezer banked side by side were made by Westinghouse. The small appliances he did use were Westinghouse too.

Westinghouse sold their small appliance division to Hamilton Beach in the mid 1960s

ozzie908 · Oct 25, 2016

Having cooked on everything including an open fire

I hereby declare that nothing beats induction hob cooking ! Its quick responsive and no residual heat to warm you up. I have reached a point in my life that I believe my bodies thermostat is on the fritz if I do anything physical I instantly melt so have to say the last thing I would want to cook on is an AGA they heat the room and water ok but are renowned for being a bloody pain, if you want to do a meal for a lot of people on it you need to prepare the day before and get everything so it can go in the ovens because as soon as you lift the lids to boil all the oven temp is lost and result in a go slow. Nice to look at and lovely to keep the cat warm but not practical out of the farmhouse. I used to use gas for many years until I moved here and found out there was no gas in the kitchen and it was going to cost as much to install the gas for the hob as it was to go buy a new induction and thats what we did and 6 years later I would not swap it for anything other than another induction hob

)

vacerator · Oct 26, 2016

Yes of course,

but some still prefer an AGA. Perhaps in a country house which may have a poorly heated kitchen. They come at a price of many quid.
With an entire heated top surface, cooking for a crowd and keeping dishes warm and sauces the right temperature and fluidity can be a benefit.
Same for the two different oven zones.
Clarissa and Jennifer explained the characteristic of an AGA in one episode as I recall.

mikael3 · Oct 26, 2016

Julia Child’s very first set, for her three pilot episodes that are apparently all lost, was the display kitchen at the Boston Gas Company. When the pilots turned into The French Chef series, the set for the first few seasons was the display kitchen at the Cambridge Electric Company. The production team took what was offered in both cases.

The French Chef used two different arrangements of the Cambridge Electric kitchen, which makes it look like there were two different sets there. At first, the wall oven and washer-dryer were behind Julia, and the sink and fake window were to her left. Later, they moved the island so that the sink was behind her, and stove was to her right.

Halfway through season 3 (1964-65), when WGBH finished building their new studios, the show got the vaguely Provençal, French countryside set. A similar set was used for the color episodes.  Those later sets all used electric, but I have never read whether that was a conscious choice or a safety requirement.

In her own kitchen, Julia had a great big Garland, but she also had electric Thermador wall ovens.

In her videos for ‘The Way to Cook’, she used all electric. But most interestingly, in the shows she did with Jacques Pépin in her own kitchen, the temporary island they set up for the show had a gas side for Jacques and an electric side for Julia.

I’m a broken record here, but in my experience, gas and electric are better at different things. Also, cheap gas ovens are worthless, while cheap electric ovens are at least average.

paulg · Oct 28, 2016

Julia Child, 1970s

I was always interested in the large, coppertone, (seven??) burner cooktop she used in the 1970s kitchen.
One day, during a close-up, I distinctly saw the word "ROPER" embossed in the center of a Calrod.
Does that mean that the cooktop was Roper? Dunno. Maybe.
You tell me. Did ROPER make a large range like that? Custom-order? Hmmm.

combo52 · Oct 28, 2016

Julia Childs

Seven element cook-top was a Thermador, it was a popular CT in large kitchens, after they stopped including the neat 4" element in the mid 80s they changed it to a 6 element CT, the 6 ECT had four 6" elements and 2 8" elements, a very useful configuration.

What kind of ranges

Help Support :

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Similar threads