Ladies and gents, feast your eyes on this beauty which will be delivered to my home tomorrow between 1 and 3 pm PST!

Char's New Stove

To say that I am excited would be a MAJOR understatement!

I currently own a 40" wide, 30 year old, GE electric stove on which none of the burners are level and the oven thermostat varies by 50 degrees either direction on any given day! Man I cannot WAIT to get THAT dinosaur out of the house!

I will be walking on Cloud 9 tomorrow at this time!! Yaaaa HOOOOOOOO!

Char

Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it....

Woo-HOO!

That looks fabulous, Char! I'm vicariously excited for you!

We expect a complete report on the "inauguration meal" of course! Do NOT tell us it was a cup of tea. LOL!

Maggie
5'1" ~~ Atkins since '98 (160+)
Maintaining nicely (110 +/-)

~~Redhead until further notice! ~~

Oh my...That picture made me drool...

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
Start Atkins 9.1.03
225/198/130ish
My Birthday Goal: Size 14

Wow!
I'd be excited over a major appliance like that too!


Always eat your veggies first!
LCE member since March 2002

WOW! That is some new toy, I mean TOOL! But, Char, I didn't see a bottle holder for the DaVinci's!?!?

Connie

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Woohoo!!!

Boy would I be loving that.

I can only imagine how thrilled you must be. I would LOVE a stove like that.

Hey...your stove, my pans, we could make a pretty good meal!

ENJOY

Char - I'm envious. That looks like a fabulous new toy, I mean tool. Enjoy it.

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Wow Char! If that's not a Toy, why does it look like it's so much fun to play with?

Congratulations!

Rob
310/230/180
Me, a skeptic? I trust you have proof.

ohh go you... I'm going to try and get hubby to let me go shopping thisweeknd.. i want one of those 5-7 cubic feet freezers
ohh i would love a nice stove like that.. but if we get a dif stove its going to cost alot beacuse our spot for our stove is small it will have to be custom or a small stove... or worse yet.. rebuild our cubards..


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That is magnificent!

Congratulations and I'm completely jealous!

As another person who had the same kind of stove for 30 years, I congratulate you. Mine died last year but I replaced it with another electric cuz I totally burn things on gas stoves. I got the kind with the burners under a ceramic top, yoohoo, and I also got the convection oven. I love that.

Enjoy you new tool.

Joyce(lc since July,2002)
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THANKS, everyone! I can hardly wait. I'm going to go entertain myself at Trader Joe's this morning - think I'll get some prosciutto and make that Chicken Saltimbocca as the inaugural meal tonight!

Marcie, girl, bring your pans over and we'll have a cooking fest....

This was a long time in the planning, the big ol' GE is 40" wide and fits EXACTLY between two cabinets, so it was a challenge to find a gas stove to fit there - and this dual fuel was the only thing I could find (in my price range) that fit perfectly. Poor me, to have to get THAT model, huh?! I've wanted a gas range for eons now.

The other challenge was that the kitchen area had never been plumbed for gas, although the fireplaces, water heater, and furnace are all gas. The first estimate I had to plumb gas over to the kitchen was OUTRAGEOUS so I put it on the back burner, so to speak - then when I had the plumbing company here a couple months back on a different matter, I casually mentioned to the guy that someday I was gonna get the gas line installed to the kitchen - he said he'd make an estimate for me - it was 1/4 the price of the first company's! So I said GO FOR IT!! Wahoooooo!!

Thanks again for all your vicarious excitement....you guys all da best....

Char

Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it....

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I replaced it with another electric cuz I totally burn things on gas stoves. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I was doing the same thing until I discovered heat diffusers, or flame deflectors as they're sometimes called. It's a round disk, usually made of cast iron, that sits on the on the burner to prevent hot spots. Take it from some one who regularly started stove top fires -they really work!

Here's what they look like:
Heat Diffuser


Always eat your veggies first!
LCE member since March 2002

Wow, Char, that's gorgeous! As I read the thread I realized that your count-down to delivery is starting. You must be really excited! Cooking with gas is great. I swapped my old electric stove for gas a while back but went a different route and got a vintage 1940's Wedgewood which I had shipped from California. Even old gas stoves beat out a new electric one any day.

Esther

Beautiful range, Char! I, too, would love to have a stove like that. We renovated our kitchen a couple of years ago, I went back with built-in appliances. Let us know how you like it.

Take care~
Susan

LCE Member since 01/02