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Holy Moly..1948 O'Keefe & Merritt Town and Country
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Post# 794374   11/16/2014 at 21:48 (3,458 days old) by stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK)        

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Post# 794381 , Reply# 1   11/16/2014 at 22:05 (3,458 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        

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I've seen these Aristocrats for sale with asking prices nearly twice as high.

 

Two major considerations come to mind:  1)  The need for a kitchen large enough to accommodate a stove of this size, and 2)  So many ovens, none of which are self-cleaning.

 


Post# 794392 , Reply# 2   11/16/2014 at 22:28 (3,458 days old) by lamont ()        

And the 600Lb weight.

Post# 794394 , Reply# 3   11/16/2014 at 22:35 (3,458 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
OTOH:

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That is the perfect Thanksgiving Day range.

Bring on the pies, the dressing, the green bean casserole, the rolls and the turkey - all in their own individual ovens.

You would also have a very nice warm kitchen. In fact, at full blast, you might have a very nice warm neighborhood.


Post# 794402 , Reply# 4   11/16/2014 at 23:38 (3,458 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)        

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This is a week of mid 70's here...still way too warm to have one of these blasting away in your Palm Springs kitchen. It does seem to be in great shape and looks very clean. Lots of "grillavator" stoves came in as trades (not Aristocrats of course) and as a kid I had to clean most of them up for resale. There were many of these broilers that looked as though they were heavily used and never cleaned since day one. They were the worst...absolutely filthy.

 

it took jars of this stuff to clean those dirty stoves and your hands showed it


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Post# 794462 , Reply# 5   11/17/2014 at 10:47 (3,457 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
So many ovens, none of which are self-cleaning

Maybe the broilers could be outfitted with kneelers to make the cleaning posture more comfortable. The broiler in our gas range was never used after the night of the flames shooting up into the oven like the Ritual Dance of Fire from de Falla's El Amor Brujo, an exciting sight for me, but a sad disappointment to my mother after the broiler in the electric range. In spite of the non-use, the broiler pan would get dirty from the drips of condensation from the heavy steel plate above the burner each time the oven was turned on. A few drops even ran out onto the floor at the corner of the range and they would discolor the linoleum until the spot was washed.

Green bean casserole with canned Durkee French Fried Onion Rings. We used to run into that at other people's homes, but it was not something mom made. The only vegetables that she cooked to the point of being tender were potatoes and acorn squash. Everything else, in her northern way of cooking vegetables, had crunch.


Post# 794476 , Reply# 6   11/17/2014 at 12:20 (3,457 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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I make green bean casserole with Del Monte Seasoned Green Beans and Campbell's Golden Mushroom soup, and of course the french fried onions.


Post# 794478 , Reply# 7   11/17/2014 at 12:38 (3,457 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
I Remember:

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That a former co-worker of mine back in Atlanta used to refer to that green bean recipe as "Christian Casserole," for its frequent appearance at church suppers.

He wasn't terribly religious, but his wife was a staunch mega-church member, and he used to tell me about seeing six or eight renditions of the recipe at a single church supper when his wife prevailed upon him to go to one.


Post# 794530 , Reply# 8   11/17/2014 at 18:07 (3,457 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
And None Are Self-Celaning

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Amen Ralph, not to mention none are Micro-Convection either, even if you had a huge ventilation hood over this range and full time help to clean it I can not imagine a situation in life where I would want to cook on this range on a regular basis.

Very cool to look anyway.



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