What? No "Touch-N-Cook"?

[joeekaitis]

 

Frigidaire has an innovations timeline on their website as part of their "Daire To Expect More" ad campaign.  Conspicuously absent is any mention of the Touch-N-Cook range, cooktops, wall ovens and microwave ovens.

 

When you search Home Depot for single-oven 30-inch induction ranges, over half have touch controls for both the cooktop and oven.  Touch-N-Cook has definitely had a lasting impact.

 

Scroll down past the ranges to see the timeline video.

 

https://www.frigidaire.com/en/daire-to-expect-more

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, imagine that!

Going from a Frigidaire just being a REFRIGERATOR to the Modern Day China-made Triangle Logo Crap of 2000-Nowaday!!!!

 

So NO Jet-Cone Agitator, either!!!!

 

Or whatever their Dry-innovations were in their dryers that I forgot the name of, as well!!!!

 

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

My Frigidaire induction stove. . .

. . . was made in Charlotte Province, People’s Republic of North Carolina.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

FLOWING HEAT dryers, yeh, I think that's it...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

"Flowing Heat®" sucked.

 

No, literally.   Instead of using a blower, the dryer had an exhaust fan so the air was "inhaled" over the heat source instead of blown across.  The idea was to disperse the heat more effectively for more uniform drying and less likelihood of high heat setting in wrinkles.

 

[DADoES]

 
<blockquote>Instead of using a blower, the dryer had an exhaust fan so the air was "inhaled" over the heat source instead of blown across.</blockquote> Which brands/designs blow the incoming air into the heat source vs. pulling the air through the heat source?

 

[goatfarmer]

Didn't Norge blow the air through?

 

[thatwasherguy]

I remember reading...

That the Westy slant front dryers had a positive airflow drum, so I assume that means that the heater is positive airflow as well.
Hope this helps,
Thatwasherguy.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

frigidaire no more

So I guess Frigidaire is no more? Is this true? Say it isn't so.

 

[circlew]

Frigidaire no more?

Why do you think that?

 

[qsd-dan]

So I guess Frigidaire is no more?

The end of Frigidaire was 1979, just like end of Maytag was 2006.

 

[circlew]

1979

That was the end of Frigidaire as a division of GM, which did not own it originally. The company was founded as Guardian Frigerator Co. in 1916, and bought by GM in 1919. WCI from them to 1987, when that company was acquired by Electrolux.

 

[hvtech42]

Charlotte is just where Electrolux North America's corporate headquarters are located, there is no manufacturing there.

Frigidaire ranges are made in Springfield, Tennessee in a plant that originally built by FH Lawson, who was bought out by Tappan, who was bought out by Electrolux (several years before they bought out WCI). All the Electrolux freestanding ranges have been made there since the late 80s.

Built-in cooking products had been manufactured at other plants until recently, when Electrolux saw a massive decline their cooking market share due to the collapse of Sears/Kenmore. So they expanded their Springfield plant and consolidated all their North American cooking production there in 2022, except 24" ovens which are made in Australia and electric cooktops which are made in China.

 

[joeekaitis]

I stand corrected.

 

Actually, I'm sitting.  I based my information on the serial number and manufacturing date label.  The stove had the "Designed In, Engineered In, Assembled in AMERICA" label on the oven door.

 

It just didn't specify which state.