Article about a Vintage Stove: Frigidaire Flair Stovetop

[Shel_B]

For some inexplicable reason, I found this article fascinating and interesting.  It grabbed my imagination and I thought I'd share it here.  Perhaps someone may enjoy it as well.

 

https://www.saveur.com/culture/frigidaire-flair-stovetop-history/

[weinoo]

I thought all Samantha had to do was wriggle her nose to cook food?

[Laurentius]

The mom of one of my best childhood friends had (and was very proud of) a Flair.  They had a small rambler kitchen, and I recall being amazed how much room it made when stowed away.

[FauxPas]

Pete and Trudy on the show Mad Men had one of these. You can see it here in the right background just past 15 second mark. I loved some of the 60's decor on that show! 

 

 

[Porthos]

@Shel_B You brought back a memory. Thank you.

 

In 1964 my mother got a Kenmore gas range with slide-out burners. It had a large oven below the burners section and another oven over the burners. It was great for preparing holiday meals. She used that stove until 2010 when she moved to an assisted living facility. I cooked countless family dinners on that stove in my high school years.

[Susie Q]

When I was a kid we had one of these for 5 years.

 

WE ALL HATED IT!

Especially my mama.

 

Our's had the wood counter, with storage below and two ovens above.

 

I remember it as being too shallow for bigger pots & pans. It was sometimes not tall enough for some pots between the pulled out burners and the bottom of the ovens. It also made it hard to stir taller pots. There was not enough room between burners, so you were limited that way too.

You had to reach above and over hot steamy pots to put in or pull something from the ovens.

 

Did I mention we hated that stove?

 

We had a small electrical fire caused by wiring in the unit and had to call the fire department.  I still remember that smell. We never used it again and moved soon after into the house my parents bought and promptly bought a wonderful & big gas stove.

 

That electrical piece of junk fostered my continuing hatred of electric stove burners. Electric ovens I'm okay with, electric burners... no.  I like my gas.