When I was a kid we had the gas oven over broiler combo. We moved when I was in high school to a house with the avocado green double electric. Got spoiled with the double oven, has been a must-have feature in every house where possible (where we’ve built or remodeled) since then.
The Leave it to Beaver pic seems to show two separate wall ovens stacked. I don’t remember our gas wall oven having a window.
Under what situations do you need both ovens?
Perhaps preparing the food for events like a Thanksgiving dinner? I can imagine needing to cook various things, at different temperatures.
As @Dewey_Finn says, cooking for holidays. Multiple dishes requiring different temperatures. Plus one can be a warming oven if needed.
It looks exactly like it’s single over counterpart in this sort about restoring a 1959 GE wall oven…
I think it’s real, or at least the front panels from a real oven without the guts. Wouldn’t be surprised if GE was a show sponsor.
In this case, it does not look like the oven/broiler over-under combo, but like two stock wall units stacked.
'Zactly. Any time you’re cooking for a party, two ovens are super handy. Once you have them you’ll never want to go back to just one.
What’s weird to me is that the ovens or whatever they are, are installed in a wall between two or more rooms. There are doors on either side of them. I suppose one side might be just a hallway and the side wall extends far enough to cover the sides of the appliances. Also weird is that the upper one has no window.
Here in Melbourne, the only double ovens my brother saw were in Jewish homes (used for kosher cooking).
And the only ones I saw were in Greek homes (used for family cooking).
One of the Greek guys I worked with explained that he only ate at home on a Saturday night about 4 times a year. Those 4 times were a stretch for him – there was a lot of food bought – but it was balanced by not having to pay for the meal the other 48 weeks of the year.
My mom cooked the turkey in the tall one, and the sweet potato casserole and other flatter pans in the shorter oven.
Our ovens were sort of a brownish color. I think the stylish avocado green came along later.
Mine were brown too. Now I wish I took a picture before I remodled.
And just to bump it up a notch in history a microwave oven replaced the upper oven when they came into being.
Neither one has a window. That model didn’t come with a window in the door.
Harvest Gold.
Olive green.
Or
Copper tone.
My aunts all had a version.
My Granny had Coppertone. I liked it because of the color looked like flames. Well, to a 6 yo.it did.
I remember watching an episode of Graham Kerr’s Galloping Gourmet before he went nuts and the set had a dual oven. After preparing a chicken for roasting he slid the pan in the upper oven, closed the door, and said, “So we put it in the magic oven and bim, bam, boom --” touching the upper glass, the space between, then the lower glass before opening the lower oven and taking out a finished chicken, “–it’s done!”
I grew up in a house that had a double oven (electric) in a walk that was between the kitchen and the family room. So that looks totally normal to me. The walls were just drywall, too.
My parents had a kitchen fire, once, but it wasn’t from the oven my father was doing something with hot oil on the stove and wandered away.
Yes, it is. My sister has one exactly like that. She inherited it from our mother.
I don’t know about these days, but during my Army brat days and my own military days, almost every military family had Westinghouse, Frigidaire, and Kenmore home appliances. A few outliers had Maytag. Of course the popular color (as in: “You can get it any color provided you only want…”) was white.
A quick search tells me GE sponsored the later seasons.
Dry wall is fire resistant. Now wood studs and insulation burn.
My walls are wood. Where my stove sits is a interior wall backing it. It’s pine planks.
The range has a fire shield. Just cause I’m a nervous nellie.
One oven to cook in, and one oven to store pots and pans so you don’t have to drag them all out every time you needed to bake.
Lots of 1960s /1970s ovens did not have windows in the doors. I suspect the glass of the time wasn’t quite up to the task, or at least was very expensive. So the lower tier contractor grade and mass market appliances didn’t have them.
Hey, btw. If you catch an episode of Bewitched check out Darren and Sams kitchen range.
That thing is fan-cy!!!