I restored one of these. $70 @ thrift store b/c nobody wanted to move it. We cook with it everyday. 70 years later. Looks classier than any of these new range we've seen.
It was obviously designed by somebody who is more than a marketing genius who is putting lipstick on a pig of a piece of garbage engineering and selling it for thousands of dollars. Oh, and equivalent quality of this would go if it was the same price for over $5000 now. But you can buy trash that goes for that too. Just look at all the high-end appliances now.
Anyone else like me dying over this Range?! I love everything about this! I have double in-wall ovens and flat cooktops built into my counters. Both are GE, made in 2006 and are nothing compared to this range! My ovens were wonderful, but started having issues a couple of years ago where I can’t cook things on high temps above 375 for over an hour and a half without the oven displaying an error code and going into self-lock mode. Obviously it needs fixed but we haven’t had the time. But this range is just incredible! And I actually love the open space next to the burners. You can just take something off the burner and set it to the side without having to rush & grab pot holders before placing it on the counter. Just a really neat range. That built in pressure cooker is amazing! I wish they still made them like this today! These were truly built to last! And most that bought them, owned them for decades and used them for life!
For sure, now price is up and last 7to8years. We could have even better stoves, but cheap products now. I've had stoves, washers, dryers last 30 years. I'm fixing them, not buying new, so sad...
Dora Elinburg That's also when an appliance was a massive investment. A fridge or range would cost many weeks salary. Now you can buy a fridge with one days earnings, a basic cooker for a couple of days average wages. Appliances are crap now because consumers have demanded ever cheaper goods, and manufacturers have responded by compromising on materials and quality. It is still possible to buy well built appliances, but people are reluctant when they hear a Miele washing machine is £1500 or a top quality range cooker is the same price as a small family car.
My aunts had one of these and boy did it cook good! The user manual came with wonderful recipes that I am still making today. That deep well cooker acts like today's Instant Pot and Slow cooker. It's a shame these aren't manufactured today.
Well, we're not even sure if the woman really is his wife, or just a model.... Politicians use this kind of frivolities all the time, and don't just get away with it, but sometimes they even get more votes with it than the previous time...
In 1956, GE made built-in appliances (electric cooktops + built-in ovens) that used the same cook-by-color push button controls as seen on the range in this video that mounted to either a wall or a cabinet front. In the early 1990s, I was helping a friend demo a kitchen in a mid-century home that had them and I had the opportunity to get them for free. But I had no use for them at the time so we just threw the built-ins away. I’m still kicking myself for doing that, I’d love to now own everything we threw away. Many appliances from 1956 are still working great today, but I’m certain that zero appliances built today will still be working in 2090. We live in a disposable society, where the products we buy are designed with planned obsolescence in mind. 😢
I actually installed this very electric range in a 1950's "styled" house I lived in from 1981 to '87. The stove, oven, and pressure cooker never failed😮.
Built in Pressure Cooker And Warmer . . Exactly what I want in my *New Stove! Now I have a Pressure Cooker cluttering up my counters! Why did they drop these great ideas for everyday stoves?
My parent's '53 GE didn't come with that cooker option,but it had double ovens. They used it for 50 years. When one oven went down after 30 years,the second one kept working for 20 years more.
@@swingman5635 It was mid 1953 that they eliminated the pressure cooker option. My general electric is from that vintage. At the same time as much as I would like a built-in pressure cooker, I’d rather use my modern stovetop pressure cooker.
personally, I have had both kinds of stoves and definitely prefer gas. We live in a rural area up north. When we lose power during bad storms we still can cook with gas, add cooking with our wood stove we stay nice, comfortable, and warm. There is no warm up time on a gas stove top, once that flame goes on instantly you have a hot burner. We use small gas canisters, the size we use for the outdoor grill, that we change out ourselves every 4-6 months and we cook daily along with canning in season. Plus our utility costs are much less by using gas for cooking.
My aunt had a push button range. Just the buttons not with the lights. Brings back so many memories and smells of her cooking. Never thought I would miss that time of my life as much as I do.
My Grandmother had a stove that had a deep well and it also had pull out rods/rack on the side to dry your drying towels (to dry off dishes) on. It also had a built in griddle that you covered for extra stove top space and a drip pan underneath the stove top for spills, etc.
we had the stratoliner in our home back in the 1950s...and when my dad moved in the 1970s...he had the stove removed and installed in his new home...that appliance was reliable...and had modern features...wow...great to see this add in 2021
Why they quit making ranges with a countertop built in I will never understand. Ranges of the 1940s and 1950s were the absolute best ever made. My grandma had a range that had a deep well cooker. She loved it
The width of old ranges like these were made to be around the same size as vintage fuel-burning cast iron stoves. Those required a separate fire box and bulky air and flue passages. With electric and gas, none of that is relevant, so they shrunk them to make them cheaper and to allow smaller kitchens in apartments and such. You can't put cabinets directly over a stove, so you lose more space there.
@@straightpipediesel -- but they could still manufacture them for people who have larger kitchens / properties, couldn't they, it's a real shame that they don't .
I remember when my late grandmother born in 1887 got her first push button electric stove in the early 1950s....I forget what make it really was, but I remember each push button was a different color, green, blue, red and yellow! I grew up in the 1950s and 60s and we had a pink kitchen like so many other women had back then. Pink and turquoise were the big colors back then before Harvest Gold, Avocado green and Coppertone brown by the 1970s. And I remember our electric dishwasher which had uncoated steel racks got so HOT we had to take the dishes out with potholders!
The colors symbolized the degree of the heat offered. Traditionally, blue was the lowest heat level, followed by green, yellow and red. Some makes also had orange and purple buttons (orange between yellow and red, and purple above the red button).
We had a GE push button stove when I was growing up. I loved it! YEARS later we were renting a house that had one! That one had 2 ovens! Instead of the drawer on the left, there was a smaller oven. I could bake cookies in the large oven while I cooked a meatloaf for supper in the smaller one. I guess it was the Liberator. We had to move because they sold the house. The new people put the stove out in the alley for the trash!!! I didn't know until it had trained & ruined it. I cried & cried! I would've LOVED to have that stove!! Best one I've ever used!
My grandmother born in 1887, living in the city, with gas supply since 1930, still had a wood burning stove until 1961! We gave her our old gas stove. She died a year later. Oh well.
I grew up with a 1940s range. It was still working when we got a new one in the 1980s. The only reason we got rid of it was my 2 year old nephew leaned on the open oven door and it no longer shut properly. Things were made better back then, no planned obsolescence
It's really striking me as I watch these old shows, how much they actually had in the 50s. In fact, they more or less had what we have now as far as appliances. Our stuff now is just a little quieter and energy-efficient perhaps. I guess computers and entertainment are where we see big differences.
Also the appliances back in the day were made to last. What they have now are made to break down. I recently invested in everything from the 30's to 50's era; everything in perfect working order. Actually stoves, and refrigerators have neat gadgets that they don't have now. Really neat!
I find that in the old days things were better and were better made then what you have today.somethings are timeless.this reminds me of Julia child and betty crocker..so 1950S...what a time.
We have the 1948 Liberator that we still use at our coastal farmhouse. It needs some work and I am looking for someone who can work on it, but it is a cooking monster. Much better than any we have used in our city apartment.
I feel like I just sat through an infomercial. I was just waiting for him to say "but wait... order now and you'll also get a second GE liberator, a $49 value, absolutely free. Just pay separate shipping and processing "
because you burn the holy crap out of your arm when the pots are steaming and spattering when adjusting the heat...my granny had this stove. not to mention the rats nest of wires in the back as every button has two wires
@@philtripe My grandma had this stove too. She liked having 2 ovens even though she rarely used them both at the same time. She never broiled anything because it was messy and she had a friend whose pressure cooker blew up. She used the pan to make soup and stew.
@@philtripe Most electric ranges are still like this. I have the stratoliner from 1954. You don't burn yourself unless you're careless. The ovens are the best I've ever used.
@@asbestosfibers1325 They switched away from the pressure cooker in 1954. It's a 'deep well' cooker for soups and so on. The lights merely use a 4 or 7 watt c7 bulb. I know, I bought one last year and replaced the bulbs. The raising and lowering of the burner IS a bad idea but not because of the heat, because of the brittleness of the wires from constant movement. That pressure cooker is AT LEAST 5 quarts and you canned a family of 4 with that. These are fantastic ranges.
@@bigbeargaming7608 the stratoliner cost $400 in the early 1950s and the liberator was $500. That’s about 4500 and 5500 today. Expensive! Average family income in 1950 was $3300 per YEAR. So, yeah, expensive, I bought a stratoliner from 1954 two years ago got $50. Put a few hundred in and it cooks really well.
Anybody recognize who portrayed the salesman? His name was Dan Frazer. 25 years later he would co-star with Telly Savalas as Captain Frank McNeil, on Kojak
General electric was Viking sold in Canada by Eatons. I have a 1956 one. Best stove hands down! Need a burner. Use it every day! Not fun trying to find parts. But Amazing stove.
I still have my first, and only, GE microwave from 1990. I thought I was going to have to get rid of it this year. Turns out I just needed to invest in a little WD-40 🥹
@@vomMarischal I agree Jackie. I have said, mainly that new is not better, just new. Give me anything that was built to last. Appliances, cars and even houses are throw away anymore.
Dude when he was showing the oven part with the ice cubes and he bumped the bottom rack and didn't get burned I was so impressed and now I want this oven
This is truly amazing and that triple use thing would be considered innovative even if reintroduced today. 4.5 minutes to preheat to 400?? My oven takes ages!
@@mrzhyphy1510 - That's actually very true what you said! There is even a committee of people who test objects out to see when they'll break. They literally make things to break now to keep people buying them.
Because not many people cook nowadays. We're bombarded with ads for ordering out, or sitting in our cars in line around a God awful burger place, who's so called burgers are horrid.
"The red light tells you that the stove is hot and green light tells you it's ready to cook; then there's blue... a holding heat to keep food at just the right serving temperature; you use yellow for fast preheating on the right rear unit; purple gives the the perfect heat for a rolling boil; a brown light tells you that you've burned the dinner trying to figure out all these damn lights...."
Granny had the push button ge stove and the ge fridge with the metal lever ice trays. If it weren't for the house fire we had in 94 (magnavox telly blew and caught curtains on fire); it probably would still be running to this day 😂
I have a push button stove, no lie! Funny frizzy ends! 😂 still laughing! Cute.Times don’t change! Love the space on stove. That’s cookware not utensil. Yikes! Built in pressure cooker? Never heard of it, wow. Why don’t they keep this unit nowadays?
I have one and I wish I had a gas stove. Waiting for the electric stove to warm up is annoying and takes so much longer than a gas stove. Also, you get less control on electric stove
Tell me about it lol my 70s GE oven is not even that advanced in features, my sht is as standard as it gets, the thing in the video is like some back to the future type sht.
I’m not certain on my time line here but we’re these filmed before tv? Where would they have been shown? Previews before movies maybe? I find these short films fascinating to watch.
I've got the "Liberater" version ( 2 ovens) in a 1952 Frigidaire stove. I think it was manufactured by General Motors. The interior is showing it's age with so much use over the years. The outside looks like new. It still works for the most part. I wish we could find parts for it.
We literally just got done replacing the "door latch" on our only 5 year old Samsung dishwasher. The water started to spray out the other night and it revved up when I was pushing the settings even before I could close the door! Fortunately, from watching a UA-cam video, we were able to diagnose the problem, order a part and fix it ourselves. So much for modern appliances...they are junk!
I just came from the Westinghouse promotional film "Diner at 6", from 1946, and this range looks and has features remarkably close to that oven from 2 years previous, is it just me, or does anyone else see a pattern?
11:09: I love that pressure cooker unit that converts into a 4th burner. Why don't they make those anymore? I would love to save counter space without having to have a separate cooker.
I didn’t know this about 5 years ago. My ancestor William Hadaway made the electric stove. Yes My last name is Hadaway. I’m so glad he made Electric stove.
This appears to have been filmed in color originally. They did have color back then, a lot earlier than this even. These films were usually shown at trade fairs or to dealers and their salesmen. Color gave it more wow factor.
3:27 It was right around 1948 that pushbutton presets for home radios were being discontinued, leaving only the manual tuning knobs, probably because of the shift to television. The buttons were really useful in the days of 15 minute radio shows, but by the 1950s, people were more likely to put it on one station and leave it. It wasn't until the 1980s that pushbutton presets became really common again.
Yes, since the prewar 40's with the really high dollar brands. Wikipedia "Packard had introduced hydraulic window lifts (power windows in fall of 1940, for its new 1941 Packard 180 series cars. This was a hydro-electric system. In 1941, the Ford Motor Company followed with the first power windows on the Lincoln Custom (only the limousine and seven-passenger sedans). Cadillac had a straight-electric divider window (but not side windows) on their series 75." Also, it's pretty much like most people don't know that kitchen dishwashers were around in the 20's as well. Yes, dishwashers. As a built in part of a double bowl sink. The dishwasher was an integral part of one bowl. They were called "Electric Sinks" back then, and could also be had with garbage disposals.
@@klaasj7808 Because most of us didn't get to experience automatic windows until much, much later. I was a small child in the '80s so this was long before my time, but I remember rolling down manual windows until my family got a new vehicle when I was nine years old. I'll never forget how I marveled at how much easier it was to roll the windows up and down, so it's wild to see that it was a thing, even if only for the wealthy, back when my parents were a LOT younger than nine years old!
Very entertaining. Too bad you can't buy one. One thing we forget is that folks had to use a wood stove for cooking before these new methods came along. What a difference.
No it is a deep well cooker. Today you could compare to a crock pot. Crock pots were surprisingly invented Jan 1940 but they were not in every home for many years later. My mom had one of these deep well cookers. It worked by heat that came from the electric element that pushed down when you needed it as a deep well cooker. Up it came afterwards so you could use it as a 4th stove top element. Great invention!
That particular version of that stove had a pressure cooker and a deep well/slow cooker. In 1954 they stopped the pressure cooker and just had a deep well, that cooker was used as a slow cooker. Though it boils things nicely too
I restored one of these. $70 @ thrift store b/c nobody wanted to move it. We cook with it everyday. 70 years later. Looks classier than any of these new range we've seen.
That is so awesome! 👍
It was obviously designed by somebody who is more than a marketing genius who is putting lipstick on a pig of a piece of garbage engineering and selling it for thousands of dollars. Oh, and equivalent quality of this would go if it was the same price for over $5000 now. But you can buy trash that goes for that too. Just look at all the high-end appliances now.
Lucky find! Congratulations
Made to last
Anyone else like me dying over this Range?! I love everything about this! I have double in-wall ovens and flat cooktops built into my counters. Both are GE, made in 2006 and are nothing compared to this range! My ovens were wonderful, but started having issues a couple of years ago where I can’t cook things on high temps above 375 for over an hour and a half without the oven displaying an error code and going into self-lock mode. Obviously it needs fixed but we haven’t had the time. But this range is just incredible! And I actually love the open space next to the burners. You can just take something off the burner and set it to the side without having to rush & grab pot holders before placing it on the counter. Just a really neat range. That built in pressure cooker is amazing! I wish they still made them like this today! These were truly built to last! And most that bought them, owned them for decades and used them for life!
I'm more a fan of the Chambers C90. But I'd like a crack at building my own if I had the resources and time.
@LoraA81 because in this era things were built to last forever
Now all what industrials care about id how to make us spend more and more money 😢
@@azalea.9now everything is built to be broken so you keep buying them lol
For sure, now price is up and last 7to8years. We could have even better stoves, but cheap products now. I've had stoves, washers, dryers last 30 years. I'm fixing them, not buying new, so sad...
Got one of these in our kitchen. Still going strong in 2015.
Matt Waters Keep it. It will likely outlast anything you could buy today.
You are so very right Dawn! Today's appliances are throw-away junk!
Matt Wa
Where do you buy parts?
@@lynjoy4651 At the GE parts store. (no kidding)
That’s when companies made appliances to last 👍🏻
Dora Elinburg That's also when an appliance was a massive investment. A fridge or range would cost many weeks salary. Now you can buy a fridge with one days earnings, a basic cooker for a couple of days average wages. Appliances are crap now because consumers have demanded ever cheaper goods, and manufacturers have responded by compromising on materials and quality. It is still possible to buy well built appliances, but people are reluctant when they hear a Miele washing machine is £1500 or a top quality range cooker is the same price as a small family car.
Why? They went out of business...
They didn't think back then, if we made our products last forever, then we won't be able to sell anything to this customer anymore.
Until obsolecense
@@spencerwilton5831
Where can I buy a fridge for $64 before tax?
My aunts had one of these and boy did it cook good! The user manual came with wonderful recipes that I am still making today. That deep well cooker acts like today's Instant Pot and Slow cooker. It's a shame these aren't manufactured today.
"I'm supposed to tell you about these features, but I'm no salesman..."
Proceeds to do a 25 minute infommercial. LOL.
Well, we're not even sure if the woman really is his wife, or just a model.... Politicians use this kind of frivolities all the time, and don't just get away with it, but sometimes they even get more votes with it than the previous time...
These types of videos are my ASMR
In 1956, GE made built-in appliances (electric cooktops + built-in ovens) that used the same cook-by-color push button controls as seen on the range in this video that mounted to either a wall or a cabinet front. In the early 1990s, I was helping a friend demo a kitchen in a mid-century home that had them and I had the opportunity to get them for free. But I had no use for them at the time so we just threw the built-ins away. I’m still kicking myself for doing that, I’d love to now own everything we threw away. Many appliances from 1956 are still working great today, but I’m certain that zero appliances built today will still be working in 2090. We live in a disposable society, where the products we buy are designed with planned obsolescence in mind. 😢
I just watched a 25 minute commercial for something that I can not buy...
Same 🥴😂
I bought one four years ago…on FB marketplace.
Me too! I've never seen an oven and range like this in my life. Why don't they make these anymore? LOL 😂
Ive never enjoyed listening to an underwater salesman so much in my life either…
Lol best comment
Look how svelte the actors are, and how formally dressed. My, my, how times have changed!
In 1950, only 10% of the American population was classified as obese.
True story.
They never should have stopped making these!! I want the one with the pressure cooker and warming drawers!!
me too!!
I actually installed this very electric range in a 1950's "styled" house I lived in from 1981 to '87. The stove, oven, and pressure cooker never failed😮.
Never under estimate the resourcefulness of a woman....Amen to that brother and how!!!!
period
I want this range! That built in pressure cooker is absolute genius!
Built in Pressure Cooker And Warmer . . Exactly what I want in my *New Stove! Now I have a Pressure Cooker cluttering up my counters! Why did they drop these great ideas for everyday stoves?
My parent's '53 GE didn't come with that cooker option,but it had double ovens. They used it for 50 years. When one oven went down after 30 years,the second one kept working for 20 years more.
@@podany4tx Whatever happened to those ovens with a rotisserie they had in the 1960's?
@@swingman5635 It was mid 1953 that they eliminated the pressure cooker option. My general electric is from that vintage. At the same time as much as I would like a built-in pressure cooker, I’d rather use my modern stovetop pressure cooker.
They had to drop the pressure cooker on the double ovens because the second oven took up the space the pressure cooker needed.
I just restored a 1955 Liberator for my wife. It is the best stove she ever used and everything does better.
Lucky lady! I'd love to have one of these in my kitchen.
I agree! I love mine! Its still perfect.
That’s because it was made in the USA in 1955, not like this stuff today
personally, I have had both kinds of stoves and definitely prefer gas. We live in a rural area up north. When we lose power during bad storms we still can cook with gas, add cooking with our wood stove we stay nice, comfortable, and warm. There is no warm up time on a gas stove top, once that flame goes on instantly you have a hot burner. We use small gas canisters, the size we use for the outdoor grill, that we change out ourselves every 4-6 months and we cook daily along with canning in season. Plus our utility costs are much less by using gas for cooking.
Get a gas stove. Electric stoves are terrible
My aunt had a push button range. Just the buttons not with the lights. Brings back so many memories and smells of her cooking. Never thought I would miss that time of my life as much as I do.
I never saw one with light up buttons before. Great idea that they should have kept!
I have one of theses and it works really well. 70 years later.
Me too. Best range I've ever used.
We are selling my grandparents' house in a month or two. Granny's range is still in perfect working order. I am tempted to trade mine for it.
@@amydecker6207 I doubt you’ll regret if you do.
matt marks Not only were these appliances designed well, they were aesthetically pleasing.
Built to last!!! They don’t do that much anymore.
My Grandmother had a stove that had a deep well and it also had pull out rods/rack on the side to dry your drying towels (to dry off dishes) on. It also had a built in griddle that you covered for extra stove top space and a drip pan underneath the stove top for spills, etc.
😢I miss that drip pan!! So easy to clean!!
🤗👏👏👏Can't buy it BUT I do love it! Thanks GE❤
A built in pressure cooker. How have I never seen this by 2021!! Now that's ingenuity
That was a great sales pitch. Now I want one.
Good Luck in finding one that's functioning.
we had the stratoliner in our home back in the 1950s...and when my dad moved in the 1970s...he had the stove removed and installed in his new home...that appliance was reliable...and had modern features...wow...great to see this add in 2021
My great grandfather patented the deep well cooker. Also known as a range.
Wow that's awesome!
Why they quit making ranges with a countertop built in I will never understand. Ranges of the 1940s and 1950s were the absolute best ever made. My grandma had a range that had a deep well cooker. She loved it
The width of old ranges like these were made to be around the same size as vintage fuel-burning cast iron stoves. Those required a separate fire box and bulky air and flue passages. With electric and gas, none of that is relevant, so they shrunk them to make them cheaper and to allow smaller kitchens in apartments and such. You can't put cabinets directly over a stove, so you lose more space there.
Corporate greed. Future Generations are going to have it way worse than us😂
@@straightpipediesel -- but they could still manufacture them for people who have larger kitchens / properties, couldn't they, it's a real shame that they don't .
@@michellefalleur960They do. Look up Wolf or Aga.
I remember when my late grandmother born in 1887 got her first push button electric stove in the early 1950s....I forget what make it really was, but I remember each push button was a different color, green, blue, red and yellow! I grew up in the 1950s and 60s and we had a pink kitchen like so many other women had back then. Pink and turquoise were the big colors back then before Harvest Gold, Avocado green and Coppertone brown by the 1970s. And I remember our electric dishwasher which had uncoated steel racks got so HOT we had to take the dishes out with potholders!
I had a good working harvest gold stove all the way up till 2017
The colors symbolized the degree of the heat offered. Traditionally, blue was the lowest heat level, followed by green, yellow and red. Some makes also had orange and purple buttons (orange between yellow and red, and purple above the red button).
Yikes!
We had a GE push button stove when I was growing up. I loved it! YEARS later we were renting a house that had one! That one had 2 ovens! Instead of the drawer on the left, there was a smaller oven. I could bake cookies in the large oven while I cooked a meatloaf for supper in the smaller one. I guess it was the Liberator. We had to move because they sold the house. The new people put the stove out in the alley for the trash!!! I didn't know until it had trained & ruined it. I cried & cried! I would've LOVED to have that stove!! Best one I've ever used!
My grandmother born in 1887, living in the city, with gas supply since 1930, still had a wood burning stove until 1961! We gave her our old gas stove. She died a year later. Oh well.
I would love to get a Liberator stove today. How ironic that one of the best inventions is no longer available!
I grew up with a 1940s range. It was still working when we got a new one in the 1980s. The only reason we got rid of it was my 2 year old nephew leaned on the open oven door and it no longer shut properly. Things were made better back then, no planned obsolescence
I'm sold! thing sounds better than a lot of new units
I still have that same exact stove.
in my basement, it still works.
I don’t use it tho
It’s just nice to have an antique from the 50s..
1948: "and what about the broiler unit?"
2018: "Does it cook pizza?"
Isn't it amazing that people spend 100,000 dollars on a new kitchen and heat up takeout?
A built-in pressure cooker? Genius!!
17:06 WHY DON’T THEY STILL DO THIS? The double door ovens make no sense to me… THIS is GENIUS. BRING IT BACK!!
It's really striking me as I watch these old shows, how much they actually had in the 50s. In fact, they more or less had what we have now as far as appliances. Our stuff now is just a little quieter and energy-efficient perhaps. I guess computers and entertainment are where we see big differences.
Also the appliances back in the day were made to last. What they have now are made to break down.
I recently invested in everything from the 30's to 50's era; everything in perfect working order. Actually stoves, and refrigerators have neat gadgets that they don't have now. Really neat!
@@SG-477 agreed, me too. Appliances had a lot more because they were expected to work and people cooked.
I'm sold! Pressure cooker and speed oven 👌
I find that in the old days things were better and were better made then what you have today.somethings are timeless.this reminds me of Julia child and betty crocker..so 1950S...what a time.
"Never underestimate the resourcefulness of a woman!"-lol
pfft
We have the 1948 Liberator that we still use at our coastal farmhouse. It needs some work and I am looking for someone who can work on it, but it is a cooking monster. Much better than any we have used in our city apartment.
Me, with my brand new double oven.. “ I want a GE Liberator!” 🤣
01:17 "Never underestimate the resourcefulness of a woman."
Dang skippy! Facts!
The only thing concerning about this demonstration is being able to take an ice cube tray out of a 400ºF oven with your bare hands
That pot roast looked soooooo yummy (10:50)!
Such a shame they've done away with the well cooker, that would be so handy to have.
I feel like I just sat through an infomercial. I was just waiting for him to say "but wait... order now and you'll also get a second GE liberator, a $49 value, absolutely free. Just pay separate shipping and processing "
Kleva range and extenda ladder has ruined you 🤣🤣🤣
Why don't they keep good designs like this?
because you burn the holy crap out of your arm when the pots are steaming and spattering when adjusting the heat...my granny had this stove. not to mention the rats nest of wires in the back as every button has two wires
@@philtripe My grandma had this stove too. She liked having 2 ovens even though she rarely used them both at the same time. She never broiled anything because it was messy and she had a friend whose pressure cooker blew up. She used the pan to make soup and stew.
@@philtripe Most electric ranges are still like this. I have the stratoliner from 1954. You don't burn yourself unless you're careless.
The ovens are the best I've ever used.
@@asbestosfibers1325 They switched away from the pressure cooker in 1954. It's a 'deep well' cooker for soups and so on. The lights merely use a 4 or 7 watt c7 bulb. I know, I bought one last year and replaced the bulbs.
The raising and lowering of the burner IS a bad idea but not because of the heat, because of the brittleness of the wires from constant movement.
That pressure cooker is AT LEAST 5 quarts and you canned a family of 4 with that.
These are fantastic ranges.
@@bigbeargaming7608 the stratoliner cost $400 in the early 1950s and the liberator was $500. That’s about 4500 and 5500 today. Expensive! Average family income in 1950 was $3300 per YEAR. So, yeah, expensive, I bought a stratoliner from 1954 two years ago got $50. Put a few hundred in and it cooks really well.
Omg the deep well cooker!
I’d love to have one of those older stoves with the cooking well.
Anybody recognize who portrayed the salesman? His name was Dan Frazer. 25 years later he would co-star with Telly Savalas as Captain Frank McNeil, on Kojak
slay
really? saw a few episodes of that and also Iron Sides
love a good detective flick
My parents still have their washer from 1977 yeah it has needed some parts replaced over the years but it still washes clothes damn good
General electric was Viking sold in Canada by Eatons. I have a 1956 one. Best stove hands down! Need a burner. Use it every day! Not fun trying to find parts. But Amazing stove.
Thank you for putting this online. I am loving it.
Why don't we have built in pressure cookers anymore?
I'll take the dual oven stove AND those gorgeous copper pans on the wall ! someone beam me back to 1948 please!
In 1954 that Liberator cost over $500. It was A LOT of money!! But probably better than any $6000 ones you can buy now.
You got an arm and a leg?
"BEAMING" is for moving in SPACE, NOT TIME! 👎😂
i have this exact model in my kitchen everything works an still looks awsome after all these years
That's crazy... Upload a 10 sec video of it
ge is an amazing brand I wish I had all ge brand items I absolutely love them.
GE is owned by China now.
Quality is a thing of the past!!!!!
Period!!!
We know we are Chinese
their ICBM's are _still_ the envy of the world.
I still have my first, and only, GE microwave from 1990. I thought I was going to have to get rid of it this year. Turns out I just needed to invest in a little WD-40 🥹
I love how the vapours, obediently stay away from the controls, even though they are only two inches away!
I'M SOLD! Make one like this for me in the USA today and I'll buy it right now!
I'm sold! Where can I buy one?? :)
I had 2 like this wasn't that great I'll take my glass top anytime over that anytime
Boy not me. I left that crappy glass top behind and moved into a place with a 1950s stove similar to this and I am never looking back!
Jackie Marshall I agree 100%. I grew up with a later version of this. The only thing they could add would be self cleaning.
@@vomMarischal I agree Jackie. I have said, mainly that new is not better, just new. Give me anything that was built to last. Appliances, cars and even houses are throw away anymore.
You can buy one in 1948 😂😂😂
It's kind of amazing the way he can touch those metal ice cube trays with his bare hands right after they've been in a 400 degree oven.
That looks like an interesting oven.
Dude when he was showing the oven part with the ice cubes and he bumped the bottom rack and didn't get burned I was so impressed and now I want this oven
My mind is blown by that built-in pressure cooker
70 year old range?? Im sold!!!!
This is truly amazing and that triple use thing would be considered innovative even if reintroduced today. 4.5 minutes to preheat to 400?? My oven takes ages!
Why would they take this away? Why don’t we still have this?
Because things are not meant to last.. that way we consume consume consume..
@@mrzhyphy1510 - That's actually very true what you said! There is even a committee of people who test objects out to see when they'll break. They literally make things to break now to keep people buying them.
Bianca C da Kitteee we do , get a touchpad induction stove top
Because it's expensive.
Because not many people cook nowadays. We're bombarded with ads for ordering out, or sitting in our cars in line around a God awful burger place, who's so called burgers are horrid.
In the days when they knew how to promote and sell products; with pride and dignity.
"The red light tells you that the stove is hot and green light tells you it's ready to cook; then there's blue... a holding heat to keep food at just the right serving temperature; you use yellow for fast preheating on the right rear unit; purple gives the the perfect heat for a rolling boil; a brown light tells you that you've burned the dinner trying to figure out all these damn lights...."
Ha! That had me rolling.
Really it isn't bad :)
Hot d.mn! This 1940s oven is way more advanced than my 1970s GE oven that I still use 😂 I didn’t know ovens were that advanced back then lol.
Granny had the push button ge stove and the ge fridge with the metal lever ice trays. If it weren't for the house fire we had in 94 (magnavox telly blew and caught curtains on fire); it probably would still be running to this day 😂
ooo! I miss those metal lever ice trays!!
I have a push button stove, no lie! Funny frizzy ends! 😂 still laughing! Cute.Times don’t change! Love the space on stove. That’s cookware not utensil. Yikes! Built in pressure cooker? Never heard of it, wow. Why don’t they keep this unit nowadays?
You need a dial to be able to control the heat as precisely as possible.
Exactly.
I cook, a lot. I find the presets perfect.
Different people, different situations.
@@nathanjustus6659 Different from Who? What?
@@nathanjustus6659 I cook a lot. I don't find presents suitable.
its 2018 and I want one of these
same here!
I have one and I wish I had a gas stove. Waiting for the electric stove to warm up is annoying and takes so much longer than a gas stove. Also, you get less control on electric stove
"All the great chefs use electric stoves!" - No one ever.
Tell me about it lol my 70s GE oven is not even that advanced in features, my sht is as standard as it gets, the thing in the video is like some back to the future type sht.
Holy crap, I want that master oven!!
I’m not certain on my time line here but we’re these filmed before tv? Where would they have been shown? Previews before movies maybe? I find these short films fascinating to watch.
I've got the "Liberater" version ( 2 ovens) in a 1952 Frigidaire stove. I think it was manufactured by General Motors. The interior is showing it's age with so much use over the years. The outside looks like new. It still works for the most part. I wish we could find parts for it.
We literally just got done replacing the "door latch" on our only 5 year old Samsung dishwasher. The water started to spray out the other night and it revved up when I was pushing the settings even before I could close the door! Fortunately, from watching a UA-cam video, we were able to diagnose the problem, order a part and fix it ourselves. So much for modern appliances...they are junk!
they had me at "welded from a single piece"
She can’t replace the inside of the burners and her husband has to do it?
Why would she want to when her husband can do it for her?
The deep well cooler is cool. Plus it's a pressure cooker.
I'd like a stove with a built in pressure cooker/deep well cooker
Well, I'm sold. I want one! Where can I get one without going back in time to 1948?
I just came from the Westinghouse promotional film "Diner at 6", from 1946, and this range looks and has features remarkably close to that oven from 2 years previous, is it just me, or does anyone else see a pattern?
That range is about the same size as my car and about the same amount of steel.
i admire your honesty...
and congratulations on your new KIA!
I think they were originally made by car manufacturers.
11:09: I love that pressure cooker unit that converts into a 4th burner. Why don't they make those anymore? I would love to save counter space without having to have a separate cooker.
My neighbour has ! of these that still works and has it for sale!!!!!
How much is it for sale for? Or sold for?
I paid $100can a few years ago. Looks perfect. Works perfectly. It did have to be carried out of a very old basement though. Heavier then a piano.
I didn’t know this about 5 years ago. My ancestor William Hadaway made the electric stove. Yes My last name is Hadaway. I’m so glad he made Electric stove.
I need this range.
Husband: we must hurry...
Wife: ok dear..... Proceeds to ask salesman 20 more questions.
Salesman: I can stand here all day, I get paid by the hour.
Great item and futuristic looking at night with the multi color indicators. Time to eat my Char-Broiled Steak!
Sure wish I had one of those.
Nice job on the colorization of this film! Now we can get a better idea of how things looked back then! Color brightens things up!
This appears to have been filmed in color originally. They did have color back then, a lot earlier than this even. These films were usually shown at trade fairs or to dealers and their salesmen. Color gave it more wow factor.
3:27 It was right around 1948 that pushbutton presets for home radios were being discontinued, leaving only the manual tuning knobs, probably because of the shift to television. The buttons were really useful in the days of 15 minute radio shows, but by the 1950s, people were more likely to put it on one station and leave it. It wasn't until the 1980s that pushbutton presets became really common again.
Except in cars, because our cars growing up (1960s, 1970s) all had pushbuttons.
Got a '67 model still works great I like the 40" wide size.
He is a handsome young man, I must say.
Man, I love these.
Shoot, I'd much rather have one of these, than one of the fancy ones today.
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Didn't know they had electric windows in cars back then.
motivecap Same here!
Yes, since the prewar 40's with the really high dollar brands.
Wikipedia "Packard had introduced hydraulic window lifts (power windows in fall of 1940, for its new 1941 Packard 180 series cars. This was a hydro-electric system. In 1941, the Ford Motor Company followed with the first power windows on the Lincoln Custom (only the limousine and seven-passenger sedans). Cadillac had a straight-electric divider window (but not side windows) on their series 75."
Also, it's pretty much like most people don't know that kitchen dishwashers were around in the 20's as well. Yes, dishwashers. As a built in part of a double bowl sink. The dishwasher was an integral part of one bowl. They were called "Electric Sinks" back then, and could also be had with garbage disposals.
Some used Hydraulics, The Switch controlled the pump and valves to make the windows go up and down.
why not, if you see what for airplanes and whatever they could build back then, why not fucking electric windows. its the easiest one.
@@klaasj7808 Because most of us didn't get to experience automatic windows until much, much later. I was a small child in the '80s so this was long before my time, but I remember rolling down manual windows until my family got a new vehicle when I was nine years old. I'll never forget how I marveled at how much easier it was to roll the windows up and down, so it's wild to see that it was a thing, even if only for the wealthy, back when my parents were a LOT younger than nine years old!
Very entertaining. Too bad you can't buy one. One thing we forget is that folks had to use a wood stove for cooking before these new methods came along. What a difference.
Sold! I want one!
The part at 12:00 with the pop up heating element is so freaking cool, even in 2023.
Is the deep well cooker the same thing as a slow cooker?
If a salesperson talked like that in a real store, the customers would fall over laughing.
Why?
I remember this all so well
My Aunt has one of those cook stoves. The buttons really got gummed up quickly and were hard to clean.
They aren't hard to clean, really. Maybe it was inadequate ventilation when deep frying?
Is that a pressure cooker built into the cook top??? What!?
No it is a deep well cooker. Today you could compare to a crock pot. Crock pots were surprisingly invented Jan 1940 but they were not in every home for many years later. My mom had one of these deep well cookers. It worked by heat that came from the electric element that pushed down when you needed it as a deep well cooker. Up it came afterwards so you could use it as a 4th stove top element. Great invention!
@@dawn7612 ? I thought he said it was a pressure cooker too?
That particular version of that stove had a pressure cooker and a deep well/slow cooker. In 1954 they stopped the pressure cooker and just had a deep well, that cooker was used as a slow cooker. Though it boils things nicely too