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Triple Double Dinner Dials! |
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Post# 1179417 , Reply# 1   4/29/2023 at 20:38 (333 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 1179467 , Reply# 2   4/30/2023 at 11:51 (332 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Make sure it works before you buy it. Dinner Dial components have not been available for decades. |
Post# 1179470 , Reply# 3   4/30/2023 at 12:36 (332 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington NC)   |   | |
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Grew up with dinner dials both on oven and cooktop! Still miss 'em! Greg |
Post# 1179518 , Reply# 7   5/1/2023 at 09:01 (332 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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We had a GE cooktop with hood-mounted controls for 16 years when they sold the house. The bottom RH side bank of buttons controlled the front 8" Sensi-Temp burner. That burner's temperature control was a "Dinner Dial" that was mounted next to the buttons on the black (or turquoise, or yellow, or pink, or woodtone brown) glass front surface of that hood. Burner size (4", 6", 8", GRIDDLE) was controlled by the buttons; burner heat (150o-500o, SIMMER, LOW BOIL, MED BOIL, HIGH BOIL) was controlled by the Dinner Dial. Lemme see if I have a picture.
Sadly, nobody in the family except me bothered to figure out how that wonderful Sensi-Temp burner (and similar burners made by other manufacturers) worked. They even threw out the griddle at some point very early in the game. It was an idea that died because the same people who would later spend money on Slow Cookers, never realized its potential. My parents hated it because they used the cooktop mostly for boiling water in a Revere Ware tea kettle for making instant coffee and they never understood that the burner would bring the kettle to a full boil, then lower the heat automatically to maintain the heat. It was my family's mishegoss to let the kettle screech on the 8" LH back burner for a long time before they believed the water was hot enough to make a decent cup of shitty instant coffee. In hindsight, they would have been happier with the next model down which, I guess, is the one we're discussing. |
Post# 1179520 , Reply# 8   5/1/2023 at 09:41 (332 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington NC)   |   | |
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Thanks Ken for the pic! The exact hood we had even though our hood was GE's Coppertone! Thanks for the memory! Greg |
Post# 1179602 , Reply# 10   5/2/2023 at 06:02 (331 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Quite an assortment of these ovens, they were very good quality, ovens, and quite reliable, but GE dropped them quickly. Once the self cleaning ovens came out, which were so much more desirable and more efficient to boot.
I always love the GE range hoods with the controls built-in, but first picture that Ken posted in reply number seven is my kitchen in the Weeknd house, it’s always been an easy cooktop to cook on and very logical. These dinner dial ovens are not hard to keep running. They use the same parts that the regular GE wall oven issues. It’s true you can’t get thermostats and switches for them easily but they can be found , about the only thing you can still get for GE ovens of this age or the heating elements. John. |