Funny how those old stoves were; they got to be your friend. The
cooks in those days knew just what to expect from their stove.
I kinda had the same experience only mine was with a 1972 Frigidare electric stove. I had bought a gas stove and it was awful. Wonder it didn't burn the house down. On branding day it would get so hot from the oven, that you couldn't turn the burners off on top. Had to cool the oven down to turn the burners off. It scorched the metal cabinets it sat next to. You didn't dare touch it because of the heat it produced. It must not have had any insulation.
I traded a person for a Frididare electic. Hers was the same age as mine, but hers was the coppertone color and mine was white. She didn't cook much and she wanted white to match her kitchen. That was probably the
best trade I ever made. That Frigidare stove baked so nice that the 4-H
kids would come to our house to bake their goods for the fair. It had
a self-cleaning oven, so it was very well insulated and heavy as could be.
I got so I could go outside when I was cooking and know when to come
back in to turn something that was frying on the stove. It had a timer, so
I could put food in to cook when we were riding and it would be done when
we got home. It was really my friend.
Then when we moved here, our daughter said we needed a new stove.
When my mother-in-law came to visit however, she said, "You've still got the old stove." After all it had been through 2 moves 18 years apart. The chrome part was peeling off the back and it did look like it had done
it's share of work. I hadn't noticed. This was my 'friend', after all. But after her remark I started noticing and pretty soon, I wanted a new stove.
So I got one. Glass top, convection oven, self-cleaning, digital congrols. The whole bit. I have burned more stuff on this stove in a year than I did that old one the whole time I owned it. This stove bakes wonderfully, but there is something the matter with the burners on top. On the main burner I have no leeway on heat. I have to keep it turned down as far
as possible. Of course, I wouldn't dare go outside while something is cooking. Now I have had this stove for 7 years and I still don't like it. as well as the Frigidare. It was 27 years old when I sold it to a lady in ND.
Should have kept my old friend...
Maybe there is a lesson in this somewhere. Ya' think?