Saw this pic on the interwebs and was fascinated by what looks like a vintage stove. Picture was taken in the 1970s, but the stove is likely much older. (I’ve erased a child’s face from the foreground.)
Wondering if those are two ovens on the left? Or an oven with a storage drawer below? On the right… BIG oven? But no handle on the bottom compartment. Maybe it came off.
ETA. Google image search comes up with similar appliances, but mostly refrigerators. The handles at the top of this thing suggest controls for stove burners.
Looks like it has gas control knobs at the top of the center section. I have seen an old yellow enamel stove that looked similar, probably early 20th century. It was in a little florist shop as decoration and I wanted to find a way to obtain that one but the owners of place packed up and left and the whole property was razed before I knew that was happening.
The center section looks like an oven over a storage or warming drawer. Possibly the bottom section was a broiler heated from the burner for the oven. The stove we had back in the 50s worked that way with the broiler under the oven. Not enough detail to tell more but warming drawers on the side weren’t unusual since the stoves weren’t insulated. The bottom drawer doesn’t appear to have a handle, maybe a swinging door for storage.
The gas stove in the house I moved from (when I moved to The Home) had the broiler at the bottom, too. What a nuisance! You had to kneel down and keep a very close eye on whatever you were broiling. And remove it very carefully.
No gas stoves here at The Home. Can’t have open flames with all these Old People. I’m talkin’ about the other Old People. Not me.
Here is a fairly similar-looking stove (from a completed sale):
This stove has four burners with a cover, two drawers, an oven with two racks, and a broiler with pans.
I’m guessing the larger space is the oven, the smaller one to the left is the broiler, and the two bottom ones are drawers. Or it might make more sense for the broiler to be under the oven, as already suggested in other posts.
Not dissimilar to the Rolls Royce of cooking appliances. My mother had one of these and once you learned how to use it properly, It was great. Hers was coal-fired, unlike most modern ones that are electric, oil, or gas.
There’s a store here that sells them. They come in different sizes. This is the smallest one:
The store had one in “duck egg blue.” <swoon > Cute as a puppy. This baby one costs around $13,000.00. Weighs 517 lbs. You need a really strong floor to support it.
The one with four ovens is about $25,000.00. (This pic is the “duck egg blue.”) Weighs 816 lbs.
Are those Aga stoves the ones with the burner you can never turn off? I think the idea is the thing is the main heating source for your house in addition to being used for cooking.
Back in the olden days, I believe it could be the main heating source, especially for the kitchen. A small amount of coal or wood kept the stove going 24/7. And it’s not just one burner, it’s all the burners and all the ovens. They are all permanently at different temperatures. The AGA is very well insulated. Besides being a freakin’ work of art. There is definitely a learning curve to using one. I have read up on them.
When I was apartment hunting about 12 years ago, I looked at an apartment that had this stove. Is it a Chambers? It was a fabulous apartment, but the landlady lived downstairs, which struck me as too close for comfort.
Yes, that’s a Chambers. The thing about Chambers is, they’re incredibly insulated, with rockwool. The concept was for baking or roasting, for example, you could get the oven up to temp and turn it off for cooking, because you wouldn’t lose any heat. The griddle on the left raises up to be a broiler. On the back right is a soup pot, where you could cook up to three different things.
This is the stove that Rachel Ray used on her original Food Network show. It came is pastels (blue, yellow, pink), fire engine red, and bronze.
I didn’t take that apartment because, besides the landlady living downstairs, it was upstairs and I had two dogs. Later when those dogs got old they would not have been able to manage the stairs. So instead I moved to a house on the opposite side of that block where I lived in a happy cloud of delusion for 11 years till my landlord kicked me out and I wound up here at The Home. The end.
Now like everybody else here I have this piece of crap glass-topped electric stove. Probably the last stove I will ever have.
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> Cute as a puppy. This baby one costs around $13,000.00. Weighs 517 lbs. You need a really strong floor to support it.
