the weather down in South... whew!

[19&41]

I have a glass top radiant range. As long as the pan or pot has a dark bottom, it should work. I use vintage unpolished Revere Ware pots. I was able to find them regularly at thrift stores at reasonable prices. Now they only come up on Ebay as antiques and aren't cheap.

[William]

Rex, is your range an induction range? Or like mine just a glass top range? I use cast iron on my glass top range, and I also bake with it. It makes a mean cornbread.

Bill

[19&41]

It's a glass top. A few years ago, I made the mistake of buying a stainless steel stock pot and that wouldn't heat right at all. If I could get the contents to begin to heat it'd scorch any solids. I bought a black porcelain coated stock pot and that works great. With the cast iron, I'd just be careful of setting it down.

[William]

Agreed on the sitting down part.

Bill

[Firedome]

We have 3 vintage electric element ranges, 1957 (double oven pic 3), 1961 GE (shown be seller's pic before cleaned up pic 2), and 1975 Frigidaire (pic 1) and love them all. Cast iron woks great with direct contact to the coils.

[electra225]

Our neighbor, Gladys, had the same model like the pink one in the middle you posted. It had that outlet on the right that she plugged her coffee pot into. Wasn't that outlet on a timer? What is the switch in the oven door for? Gladys' stove was white.

[19&41]

What color is the '61? I seem to have missed seeing it when I was little.

[TC Chris]

My Mom's house contains a late '60s Frigidaire double oven model. When the house is sold, I'm sure the buyers will send it to the scrapyard first thing, before the quartz counter crew arrives. It's a big old thing. I can get photos eventually if anybody has an interest.

Chris Campbell

[William]

I wish I could find a Frigidaire like your first photo that was in that kind of shape. I would by it in a heartbeat.

Bill

[Firedome]

Bill those '70s FD ranges are still around and findable, just cruise FBM and CL.

The '61 is actually fire engine red, the pic is misleading, they are pretty rare. FD also made a color caled Poppy Red, pic is of my friend's set. He has quite a collection he rents out to movie productions.

Greg one outlet is timed thru the oven timer, for setting coffee pot starting in AM and such, a handy feature.
The un-timed outlet is below it, they also had a griddle option that plugged into the L side outlet and it sat over the L burners, The buttons light up different colors depending on heat range: blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and the LF burner is thermostat (thermistor) controlled by a lighted slider, and the burner is selectable for 4, 6 and 8 inches, An optional rotisserie with a temp settable thermo-probe was available for the oven. The red GE logo and name lights up when the panel light is on. I sure wish they still made ranges like that!

[19&41]

My mother inherited a Frigidaire range and oven combination from my great aunt. It was shaped about like an upright spinet piano. The range pulled out halfway, and a stainless steel shroud retracted from over the rear burners. The two ovens, at eye level, one full size and one half size had doors that pulled forward and clear then lifted above and parallel to the oven opening. My great aunt Rosie always had to have the latest and greatest. She'd cook on the range with the pressure cooker and shoot dents and holes in the ceiling with the safety plugs as the water boiled away. She had the best tools but they wouldn't make the meals for her without her help.

[electra225]

Some cooks struggle to boil eggs successfully, regardless of the equipment they may have. Some cooks make fantastic meals with very little to work with. "Poor cookin'" was a specialty of my dad's mom. She could cook road kill in a five gallon bucket over a trash fire and make it the best you ever ate.

[19&41]

Many's the time my sister would go to the kitchen when visiting my great aunt Rosie and find a few eggs in a dried up pot with the burner on boil. She and the neighbor girl would make up something for her. Her sister Goldie, my grandma, was THE cook. she could turn out a meal fit for a king with poor folks fixin's. One of my favorites was when we'd have pancakes and eggs and sausage for supper. she'd boil up some syrup for them and I still don't know what it was made of. I missed cooked cabbage. That's what I got my larger Revere ware saucepan for. Red cabbage and cajun hot smoked sausage. 1 small head = 2 meals at work.

[William]

I was very fortunate that all the ladies in my life were excellent cooks. There was never a bad meal from my Mom, and my grandmothers each doing things differently in their own way were excellent cooks as well.

Bill

[William]

Rex, I know where there is a single oven version of the one your aunt Rosie had, and it's available if you are interested?

Bill

[electra225]

My wife makes cooked cabbage and pork. Then she makes those doorstop dumplings they made in the Bohemian community in northern Michigan. One of my favorite meals. Her mom was the queen of cabbage. And cherry pie made with fresh picked, right off the tree Michigan sour cherries. Yum,Yum.....

Whenever the wife and I had a spat, I'd whine to the MIL and that would garner me a fresh cherry pie.

[Hydrolastic]

Hello all, that fire engine red 61 GE is way over the top. But even though I don't knowingly remember seeing one.... it seems completely normal for the 60's and the rental homes we lived in in the seventies.

[19&41]

Rex, I know where there is a single oven version of the one your aunt Rosie had, and it's available if you are interested?

Bill

I'm sorry Bill, The notification doesn't always work for some reason. It's all right though, I don't have the room for another stove or oven. Thanks, though.

[TC Chris]

Well, while we're back on this subject.... A family friend donated a '60s Frigidaire electric range to the cottage I now own. It replaced the 1946 Wards electric range that now lives in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, together with the '46 GE fridge.

The Frigidaire range has a puzzling behavior. The oven temp control tends to creep slightly "on" so the little pilot light comes on. I assume the heating element is also energized at some low level. The solution is to flip the manual-on-off control on the timer to "off" and the light goes out. But why on earth would the temp control want to creep on like that?

Chris Campbell