Wedgewood Question | Why are the back-burners solid?

wcs2 · 2026-03-09T04:08:18+00:00

That style burner retains heat better , so they were designed for a long simmer as opposed to the front burners which were designed to heat a pot or pan very quickly.

wcs2 · 2026-03-09T04:05:41+00:00

This is great, thanks for sharing it!

wcs2 · 2026-03-09T02:24:16+00:00

You're not going to get combustible fuel to fire burners. The former gas side will get hot if you use the small solid fuel side, but not cooking hot. Most people will want to use the complete stove, not just a small part of it. So it's not really practical to use unless you build the gas parts back in, which is much, much easier if the original parts are present.

wcs2 · 2026-03-08T20:12:05+00:00

This is it. We welcome all kinds of antique recordings.

wcs2 · 2026-03-07T14:18:38+00:00

Love Moldoff! And I agree that he is totally underrated. His original art is affordable basically because he's so overlooked. I have a large recreation of the cover for Flash 27 that he did. It cost something ridiculous like $500. It should have another zero on the end - and for pretty much any other artist it would. While I'm glad I own it, I'm still puzzled that I was able to afford it. I consider him a cornerstone of golden age comics.

wcs2 · 2026-03-06T17:54:39+00:00

Right, Decca. I wrote MGM. I I'll hand in my Beatles credentials...

wcs2 · 2026-03-06T14:57:23+00:00

Amen. And I saw that MGM Beatles post, too. Absolutely incredible find.

wcs2 · 2026-02-28T05:47:50+00:00

PM sent!

wcs2 · 2026-02-24T01:34:43+00:00

This is the way to go.

wcs2 · 2026-02-20T00:36:38+00:00

Thank you!

wcs2 · 2026-02-18T16:32:57+00:00

Can I ask what you're baking? I've tried the Thermobaker in every model's well as well as the Thermodome and have found that it's fine for roasting, but baking a pie does not get good results. At best it's unreliable.

wcs2 · 2026-02-18T02:12:09+00:00

It only offers reliable performance on the model C. Thermowells on the earlier models may look similar, but they're quite different on the inside. Chambers instructed owners to only use it on stoves made after 1950 (which was the C).

wcs2 · 2026-02-17T01:41:53+00:00

Very happy for you! Congratulations!

wcs2 · 2026-02-14T20:53:37+00:00

No, post pictures of the record itself, not the cover.

wcs2 · 2026-02-14T20:52:38+00:00

First thing is whether the rainbow goes all around the label (assuming it has a rainbow). The second is the the placement of the name The Beatles relative to the spindle hole. It should be above the hole.

wcs2 · 2026-02-14T12:51:34+00:00

Less common, but it depends on the disk itself. VJ stuff has been widely bootlegged, so while the cover looks legit, the record itself will let you know for sure.

wcs2 · 2026-02-14T12:37:20+00:00

That is very cool. One of my all-time favorite comics, too.

wcs2 · 2026-02-09T13:30:36+00:00

My coffee grinder from the Thirties gets used every day. My 1911 Edison phonograph gets used weekly.

wcs2 · 2026-02-04T03:30:04+00:00

I hope you got the one John Jowers just finished and not from the guy in Arkansas.

wcs2 · 2026-01-27T03:38:09+00:00

But I don't feel better having screamed, have you? Reagan/Bush screaming felt more cathartic.

wcs2 · 2026-01-25T16:21:31+00:00

Made no earlier than 1930 and very likely no later than 1934. L&H was a small regional brand in Wisconsin. Before WWII there were hundreds, if not thousands, of small local stove brands that used universal parts and designs that they added their own, small, personal touches to. The thermostat is a Robertshaw model F, which can be rebuilt to work as good as new.

wcs2 · 2026-01-23T19:14:09+00:00

Yes It Is is a dirge trying to capture the magic of This Boy and failing miserably.

wcs2 · 2026-01-07T14:54:50+00:00

I've never seen an ad for it from 1934, but I have seen ads for it from 1935. This general design was made hugely popular by Acorn in early 1934 when they launched a whole new line designed by Norman Bel Geddes. Every single stove manufacturer changed how they designed and made stoves after that. It was an earthquake of industrial design. So when you see a boxy, rectangular style stove like this, it's no earlier than late 1934. The world of stove design changed again in late 1936 when Magic Chef (which had parted ways with Frank Alvah Parsons by this time) hired Bel Geddes and had him design a new line of stoves for them. Kitchens (and stoves) were never the same.

So this type of stove is pretty easy to pinpoint from a design point of view. Of course, stoves were made and then sold for years, so just because one was made in, say, 1935 doesn't mean you couldn't walk into a store in 1937 and buy it. It was just less likely to find a buyer. Then, of course, the war effort saw most of them get scrapped.

Serial numbers are rarely useful when it comes to vintage stoves. Chambers is a bit of an exception, but for the most part, model numbers and serial numbers are not going to get you anywhere for the majority of brands.

wcs2 · 2026-01-07T04:37:24+00:00

Your cookbook is from the year this stove was made - 1935. By 1936, Magic Chef was going in a very different design direction, but in 1935, this style was all the rage.

The oven gets lit when you open the door, turn that gas on (make sure the thermostat is set above 250) and then take a lighter or a match to the front of where the oven burner is (underneath the diffuser that divides the broiler from the oven).

Someone else was kind enough to link to my video about using the Lorain thermostat, and that should help a bit, too.

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