# Can anyone identify or give info on this vintage stove? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674 "2025-03-16T18:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/1 "2025-03-16T18:31:19Z")
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.) [![](https://i.imgur.com/nJgfN5i.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/nJgfN5i.jpeg) 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. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/2 "2025-03-16T18:48:06Z")
Can’t say much about that particular unit. 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. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/3 "2025-03-16T18:55:12Z")
I was going to guess the top knobs are the gas controls for the burners, then the oven below that and a broiler at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/4 "2025-03-16T18:55:30Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The stove we had back in the 50s worked that way with the broiler under the oven. Your comments make sense. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/5 "2025-03-16T20:15:54Z")
Here is a fairly similar-looking stove (from a completed sale): > **[Circa 1930s Wedgewood Gas Stove](https://www.ebth.com/items/6055884-circa-1930s-wedgewood-gas-stove)** > > Bid on Circa 1930s Wedgewood Gas Stove online at Everything But The House. Bidding on most items starts at $1. > 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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/6 "2025-03-16T21:45:39Z")
Yay, you win! A virtual pan of cashew fudge is headed your way! I thought it was earlier than the '70s, 1930s fits. And $120 to buy it - that’s a steal. Damn, I love you guys. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/7 "2025-03-16T22:19:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And $120 to buy it - that’s a steal. Plus shipping, which is not small change. Please omit virtual cashews from virtual fudge, I am allergic. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/8 "2025-03-17T02:00:13Z")
Ok. Double fudge, no cashews. ✔ ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/9 "2025-03-17T22:42:20Z")
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. [Cast iron heat storage cooker | AGA Living](https://www.agaliving.com/products/catalog/cast-iron-heat-storage-cooker) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/10 "2025-03-17T22:56:08Z")
Yeah, baby! The AGA – Rolls Royce indeed. Sigh. 🎺 Fanfare! 🎉 There’s a store here that sells them. They come in different sizes. This is the smallest one: > **[AGA 24](https://www.agarangeusa.com/classic/ranges/product/aga-24)** > > AGA classic 24"   The AGA Classic 24” is our smallest AGA model, perfectly suited for city apartments, kitchens with limited space, or homes requiring a second range for an entertainment space or an in-law suite. Made and manufactured in... The store had one in “duck egg blue.” _\_ 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. > **[AGA AER7339DEB Classic Series Cast Iron 39 Inch Freestanding Electric Range:...](https://www.plessers.com/aga/aer7339deb?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkN--BhDkARIsAD_mnIoOgjnGT0Ehy74lakeGeJcBbCd3qWifUwPUzs7V07v-SEm8md6jyqkaAklUEALw_wcB#cart)** > > AGA AER7339DEB Classic Series Cast Iron 39 Inch Freestanding Electric Range: . Freestanding, Electric, Hot Plate, Quick Boil Burner, Radiant Burner, Hidden Bake Element, Convection, Adjustable Rack, Triple Oven, Range, Digital, Touchscreen, Drop... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/11 "2025-03-17T23:01:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/12 "2025-03-18T00:27:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/13 "2025-03-18T03:29:22Z")
First thing I thought of after @bob_2 posted it (spoilered for possibly NSFW content?) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MfDKJyoNY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MfDKJyoNY) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/14 "2025-03-18T21:36:55Z")
@ThelmaLou I have a Chambers stove sitting in storage, waiting for me to either convert it to propane, or move somewhere there’s a gas connection. [Chambers stove](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5817a524414fb51499fa1fd7/1521603734309-RQCYEVL87KL8FVMP60S9/Chambers+C+Early+Meg.jpeg?format=1000w) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/15 "2025-03-18T22:21:47Z")
Oh, dear God, that is one beautiful object. Sigh. 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. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/OigfBtU.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/6eORjCM) Here is another view of the stove. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/gQHaII0.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/KdXXh6Y) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/16 "2025-03-18T23:46:46Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpltb8FFtpo&ab_channel=RowanwoodPrepping). 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. StG ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-or-give-info-on-this-vintage-stove/1015674/17 "2025-03-19T00:15:59Z")
Damn. The road not taken. 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. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/as9FPTO.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/Rw5dDkI) Don’t know what happened to the aspect ratio there. But it’s a piece of crap anyway you look at it.