My new-to-me ancient stove has a skillet thingie!

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
07/15/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: Casa de Zoidberg

Breakfast hnnnnnnnnnng

J E N N - A I R

DISCUSSION (41)

LOREM IPSUM > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:03

Ohh, Jen-Air, fancy! Do you have the matching Sub Zero fridge for true kitchen baller status?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > LOREM IPSUM
07/15/2018 at 13:13

The 1981 model?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:15

Wow I have almost the same age jenn-air cook top and electric oven. It’s one of the oldest ranges I’ve ever cooked on, assuming late 70’s but it actually works really well.

Kinja'd!!!

Nick Has an Exocet > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:16

My grandmother had the same exact stove with JENN-AIR. Legend.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:17

I think the word you’re looking for is “griddle”

His Stigness > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:20

Is it electric?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/15/2018 at 13:23

You have the connected oven? Who's fancy now?!?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > His Stigness
07/15/2018 at 13:24

It is. The house has natural gas, but the stove is electric [shrugs]

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:25

Cool! O ur old house had one very similar, except the middle was a grill. We never used it because it looked like it would have been a pain in the ass to clean.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
07/15/2018 at 13:28

B A S I C V O C A B U L A R Y

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:29

K I T C H E N E Q U I P M E N T

LOREM IPSUM > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/15/2018 at 13:32

Vin tage is in.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:36

So fancy!

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:36

Very nice indeed, the cooker and the breakfast.

I really like that cooker top setup.

Plenty of space around the pans, nice.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 13:41

Griddles are great. It’s too bad that your range is electric, considering how expensive electricity is here and how much nicer cooking on gas is...

I just have one that I slap over my griddle burner when I need/want one.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/15/2018 at 13:53

Kinja'd!!!

i have the same oven from @ 1982 when the kitchen was renovated.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
07/15/2018 at 13:57

Well then we should create a sub blog for vintage jenn air electric ranges.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
07/15/2018 at 13:58

My wife: are you taking a picture of that for opposite lock?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > LOREM IPSUM
07/15/2018 at 14:00

In this case the cook top actually works really well. Thank goodness as it would be difficult to replace for a reasonable amount of money.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 14:03

By the way you can buy a replacement fan switch on amazon. Assuming all the wiring is still there.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/15/2018 at 14:03

Its the land cruiser of ranges. I would have a hard time justifying buying one, but damn they last.

His Stigness > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 14:06

My next question was going to be whether you guys have natural gas. Being from Southern California we have gas everywhere, so it's odd for me to see electric anything. I'm not a fan of the idea of electric because CHANGE is bad.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/15/2018 at 14:06

Yep, it's on order now

His Stigness > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/15/2018 at 14:07

What's considered expensive up there? A fellow Oppo member who shall not be named said he pays something like nine cents a kwh. I lay 25c here with my tiered pricing. If I never used any power I'd be at 17 cents. And IF I was stupid and went to SCE's stupid time of use plan, the lowest I'd ever pay would be 13 cents.

LOREM IPSUM > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/15/2018 at 14:08

Had a very similar one in a house we owned in the late 90's. I loved that cooktop. Could swap out either of the double burner assemblies for a griddle or electric grille assembly in a matter of seconds. It's a beautiful thing.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 14:20

Mine burnt out, could have started a fire...

fintail > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 14:22

Funny, in the turn of the century house I lived in as a kid, we had that same Jenn- Air stovetop, I remember the grille part and the logo vividly. The kitchen had a mild higher end remodel in the 70s (two fridges?!) , I guess those were a thing then.

fintail > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/15/2018 at 14:27

Electricity is expensive here? I probably average around $30/month, my place is all-electric, and I have AC.

f86sabre > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 15:43

Those three bay Jenn-Airs are the shit. It may look dated, but never get rid of it. My dad used to put them in most of the houses he built back in the day. We had one and it ruled during the holidays. Add in the skillet and it can’t be beat.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/15/2018 at 18:17

My wife learned to cook on one of those. When her patents remodeled, they replaced it with a gas cooktop. My poor mother-in-law just can’t get the hang of cooking with gas.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > fintail
07/15/2018 at 19:57

Wow. I was averaging well above that for a 1/1 condo without AC and it was actually higher than what I spent on months I wasn’t using AC in a 2/2 that was over twice the size (and had central heating/cooling that was all electric) in SoCal.

I did look at the rate differences and it should be less here based on electricity rates alone than down there, but apparently taxes more than make up the difference.

The thing I didn’t realize when I moved was how much more every random fee and tax is than I encountered in CA. I paid income tax there, but I’m fairly sure I pay way more in other random taxes than I did down there.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > His Stigness
07/15/2018 at 20:23

According to some list I found online, CA averages 15.23 cents per kWh and WA averages 7.68 cents per kWh. This, in my experience, does not match up with my experience with bills, but it’s possible that the difference between the environment where I was using energy down there and the one up here was sufficient to throw it off.

My costs for a whole, fairly large, SFH are shockingly low. Like even with some AC use last month it was only $82.

However, I suspect my rates are higher here than they are on the east side of the mountains. I’m not sure how much location affects it... I know that the CA average has little bearing on what electricity costs in a major c ity.

fintail > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/15/2018 at 20:38

My place is quite small, and maybe I am efficient, but I think my highest winter bill was maybe $50 - and I think it went down since I got a new washer/dryer.

There’s definitely a lot of regressive taxation in western WA. The final price can also vary by location - my mom lives in a small town some distance from Puget Sound, and the little PUD there sticks on a ~$40 monthly fee just for the service - before the power itself. I like to point out to her that her service charge can be almost twice my monthly bill. On the flipside, one can get a quite decent house there for under 200K.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > fintail
07/15/2018 at 23:35

My current water bill is a lot like your mom’s electric bill. The town I live in now has a water district and the base cost for every single house is $121.57 /month for up to 200 cubic feet of water (includes sewer and storm drains) . Even when I lived in a really tiny remote town in WY the water/sewer/etc bill was far smaller. Ridiculously huge fees and taxes on everyday things everyone needs seems to be a uniquely western WA thing...

fintail > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/15/2018 at 23:54

For my little 1/1 <600 sq ft shoebox, w/s/g is around $60/month, which probably isn’t bad, Bellevue is not a low cost of living city. My building has few amenities, which may be part of it. I’ve heard of $150/month water bills in some of the high rise apartment buildings.

WA can tax a lot when people are distracted by the lack of income tax - other taxes on items one has no choice but to consume. Maybe a 50% tax on offshore “investor”/money laundering/hiding property buyers could alleviate some of it. But for as much as people complain, everyone still wants to live here - the amount of out of state plates I see (not rental cars) never ceases to astound me.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > fintail
07/16/2018 at 00:11

A lot of stuff you have to look at closely. I feel like if I added it all up that random taxes and fees are greater than what most would pay in income taxes and various taxes in CA. You probably have a higher tax/fee burden here than in even high-tax states until somewhere in the low-100k range in income, but if you make more than that (erm, mostly techbros, which I guess I am), it’s a really sweet deal. It is so regressive and deeply unfair for the working poor that do so much for us...

I would strongly support a tax like the one you advocate...

fintail > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/16/2018 at 00:16

I wouldn’t be surprised. There’s another interesting thing, as far as I have observed, property tax rates here are also fairly low - I know people who have lived in TX and GA and fared much worse in those terms. Of course, the housing there is/was hilariously cheaper, but it’s the principle.

I think income tax replaced by basic consumption taxes is a key in people arguing that WA taxes are regressive. I think taxation here favors people with at least an upper middle class income.

Frank Grimes > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/16/2018 at 17:34

I wanna see some benihana action on that thing.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/17/2018 at 16:30

My grandparents had one like that. All the drop in attachments were so awesome!! They got rid of it because the coils were never something my Grandmother liked. their new gas one is much nicer, but no add ons.

Wacko > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/18/2018 at 15:14

pst, you are suppose to remove the grill to install the other part.

my parents had that exact stove top in my childhood house.

benjrblant > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/20/2018 at 17:21

I bet your new stove would get along with my new oven:

Kinja'd!!!

It’s accompanied by a matching bath tub.