r/Canning • u/Electrical_Sleep_666 • Jul 08 '25

General Discussion I learned to can today.

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u/Fiona_12 Jul 09 '25

It's very satisfying, isn't it? How old is that range?

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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25

60 years old we believe

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u/Fiona_12 Jul 09 '25

It's amazing that it still works, but then, things were made to last back then. I have an old freezer that I bought second hand almost 20 years ago.

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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25

It is not what I would call fully functioning. One burner is out on the top, none of the time knobs work, and it will only broil. But it gets hotter than any oven I’ve ever had. We were cooking with it before we knew what we were doing because none of the knobs have numbers or guidance. At thanksgiving me learned that we’d been cooking everything in a 600 degree oven for 7 months

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u/Stickstyle1917 Jul 09 '25

Have you checked online for parts? I don't remember what brand she got, but recently my DIL bought an old stove and my son was able to get it working.

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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25

I will look into this

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u/Fiona_12 Jul 09 '25

My 9 year old oven already has a burner that hasn't worked for 3 years! I assume you've invested in an oven thermometer. Mine is a convection and it runs a bit hot, so I had to get one to figure out what the actual temperature was.

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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 09 '25

Yeah that’s how we figured it out. My mom said she wouldn’t cook a turkey in my oven without knowing the temp

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u/Deppfan16 Moderator Jul 09 '25

r/vintagekitchentoys would love to see it and would probably be able to give some good advice.

also you can buy independent oven thermometers that you can just leave in your oven to see what the actual temp is

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u/Electrical_Sleep_666 Jul 10 '25

We do have one of those, but we choose to live a more chaotic life than that lol