If I hadn't already bought a new stove

[hippywife]

just last year, this would be on its way to my kitchen. It's gorgeous! You don't think it;s all looks do you?

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Sparkly's sister had a vintage stove in a house she owned a while ago.

She had it restored at some place in Long Beach, CA. They have all these old stoves on display, all in as-found condition. When you buy one, they restore it. They did a great job on hers.

I love the look of those old stoves.

[blue neen]

2. My grandma had a stove just like this.

I had actually forgotten all about it, but your picture evoked some wonderful memories.

Thanks! :)

[Tab]

3. That has a great retro look to it

looks exactly what my grandparents had.

I have no idea if it's actually a good stove or not, but it looks pretty frickin' neat.

[mtnester]

4. Oh man!

Here, prepare to salivate like me:

http://www.antiquegasstoves.com/pages/okeefe.html
http://www.antiquestoves.com/gas.htm
http://www.antiquevintageappliances.com/antique_appliances_gallery.htm
http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemID=811&itemType=CATEGORY&iMainCat=676&iSubCat=811&i1Cat=676&i2Cat=811&i3Cat=0&i4Cat=0

[Warpy]

5. I checked into it a few years ago, toying with the idea

of redoing my 1946 kitchen in a 1946 style. I realized if I was going to spend that kind of money on a stove, it would be a dual fuel, 6 hob new stove and I'd get somebody to paint the damn thing for me in a 1946 color.

I've actually used most of the vintage jobs shown on those pages, bouncing from slum apartment to slum apartment in Boston, places that hadn't been redone since the end of the last world war, if then. Most still had the chimney for the woodstove in the middle of them, used to vent the vintage gas job.

Gentrification got most of them torn out and junked, alas. If the slumlords had kept hold of them for another 15 years, they'd get richer than they had on real estate just selling vintage stoves to yuppies.

[mtnester]

10. Every now and then I go to my bookmarks

on vintage, restored and antique stoves. What I really want is a wood cookstove.

I visit sites, and sigh

[Warpy]

12. I cook on my woodstove in the winter

There is no oven, of course, but I've found putting a pan on a trivet and putting a domed wok lid over it accomplishes much the same thing. I've even done a batch of biscuits this way. I don't trust it for bread, though.

I chose a woodstove with enough of a flat top to accommodate two ten inch pans. That it has a tempered glass door for herbal romance is just one extra fillip.

The best part is that it cost me a thousand bucks, professionally installed, really reasonable for something that saves me hundreds of dollars in natural gas costs every winter.

[NMDemDist2]

6. I had a vintage Wedgewood stove in Cali and sadly left it when my AZ house

had no gas.

It was AWESOME

[hippywife]

7. This one is/was going for only

$250 on craigslist here. It would be doable but the husband ain't going for it since, like I said, we just bought a new one. Rats!

[Tab]

8. I think there's a section on Craigslist

where you can look for a new husband.

I mean, you have to set priorities.

[hippywife]

9. LOL!

Hate to waste an otherwise perfectly good husband like that. ;)

[Tab]

11. No, no no....

They can be recycled.

[hippywife]

13. Just what are you suggesting, Tab?

A swap? :o }( :rofl:

[yellowdogintexas]

14. very retro style..is it a new stove or a lovingly restored oldie? nt

[hippywife]

15. It's an original

on craigslist. I just saw a similar red one the other day and someone in another state had a pink one a few months back.

[yellowdogintexas]

16. wow. I had an old old gas stove back in Evansville years ago. We scored it for $40

from a classified ad, (remember those). Weighed a ton, but we loved it. Made the best stirfry dishes ever on that thing. Looking forward to the upcoming electric to gas conversion we hope to do within the next year or so.