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Post# 813388   3/11/2015 at 11:49 (3,305 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)        

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It's nice but not the price. $1,500 in Los Angeles.



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Post# 813392 , Reply# 1   3/11/2015 at 12:05 (3,305 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        

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What was the exhaust fan supposed to do?  Help distribute the grease-laden smoke further out into the kitchen faster?


Post# 813395 , Reply# 2   3/11/2015 at 12:22 (3,305 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)        

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I guess that mesh filter was supposed to help, similar to an unvented range hood or over the stove microwave of which there are many. In reality, that fan probably helped with heat build-up under the overhang and not much else.


Post# 813405 , Reply# 3   3/11/2015 at 13:17 (3,305 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Couldn't it be connected to a vent pipe?

I used to drive by the David Brinkleys house. They had a big commercial gas range in their kitchen, according to John, and even though they did not go in there, they had this gigantic thru the wall Fedders AC unit of about 30,000 BTUs that the cook kept cranking while she was cooking. The stove would easily overwhelm it, but you could manage to get a cool stream of air in which to stand or work.


Post# 813795 , Reply# 4   3/13/2015 at 12:33 (3,303 days old) by fisherpaykel (BC Canada)        
Wedgewood Holly

Very nice range. So am I correct in presuming Wedgewood bought/amalgamated with Western Holly? I noticed the center burner flame ports and a full 180 degree adjustment range for the burner controls. If your kitchen already had a high through wall exhaust vent or ceiling vent above range the built in fan and filter could function somewhat adequately if you did not want to see an exhaust pipe.

Post# 813823 , Reply# 5   3/13/2015 at 15:48 (3,303 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)        
Sort of like what happened when Packard & Studebaker merged

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As I recall, once Wedgewood and Western Holly merged, the quality really started to decline, although as with most "modern" gas ranges, the decline started earlier. I was surprised to see the cast iron burners on this range since many models had gone to all-aluminum ones which warped and were a mess if you got caustic oven cleaner on them like Easy Off. Having cleaned many tank-like ranges for resale like Wedgewood and Okeefe & Merritt, I always thought newer gas stoves were poorly construced things. When the store started carrying Caloric with their gas self-cleaning ovens I always thought what cheap things they were especially with those wire burner grates. The salesmen would stand on them to demonstrate how strong they were (the grates, not the "prima donna" salesmen.)

 

ps...way back in the olden days, we called those burner grates "spiders"




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