Cookin' with gas

[LocktownDog]

She's a beauty! Love that model. The warmer alone is worth the money. You just wait until thanksgiving and you'll see.

Richard

 

[imoldfashioned]

Oh, beauteous! All those ovens--think of the Thanksgiving possibilities someday!

 

[Akubra Guy]

Good ones are hard to find and thats a beauty. If we had the room we'd have one in a minute. Now I'm Jealous!!

 

[Ecuador Jim]

I'll bet Martha Stewart would be jealous of that find! Well done!

 

[John in Covina]

I'll bet many fine meals were prepared on that stove, and I am sure more will follow.

 

[Twitch]

That's a mighty cool stove!!

 

[Bill Taylor]

Wow! That really is a beauty!. We have a Wedgewood, little later year model (1940) than your Magic Chef but similar, Our oven configuration is the reverse of your stove, with burners on the right. Once you start using it, you will wonder why you ever had anything else. They cook much better than modern stoves and because they are cast iron (and weigh a ton), you can turn the oven off and it will stay warm for hours. Be sure when you start using it to make arrangements for the flue pipe to vent out, Many modern houses don't have a flue in the kitchen, but they work much better if the flue is used as intended. I think a hood vent pipe may work; those stoves usually didn't have a hood vent because of the height of the warming oven. We are lucky as we have an old house and it already had a chimney flue in the kitchen. I think the best gas stoves of the goldern era were Magic Chef, Wedgewood and O'keefe and Merrit. Those were top of the line, with Roper, Jewel and several others pushing hard right behind them.
Some of those green and tan marbelized models were gorgeous too.

Bill

 

[The Reno Kid]

Be sure when you start using it to make arrangements for the flue pipe to vent out, Many modern houses don't have a flue in the kitchen, but they work much better if the flue is used as intended. I think a hood vent pipe may work; those stoves usually didn't have a hood vent because of the height of the warming oven. We are lucky as we have an old house and it already had a chimney flue in the kitchen.

As it happens, we will be building our house from scratch. Since this is the house we intend to spend the rest of our lives in, we will be including all the features we want. Resale won't be a consideration. We will certainly include a flue. We haven't absolutely settled on a design yet but we've narrowed it down to a handful (all 1930s or earlier).