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Subject: Re: [OT] Memories from the 50s
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:30:53 -0400
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anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>> This article showing 20 photos of things from the 50s came up in my news 
>> feed today and I rather surprised by a couple of them:
>> 
>> https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/1950s-photos
>> 
>> I'm perplexed by Photo #17 which purports to be a "double oven". I'm not 
>> sure what a "double oven" but the name suggests that it would have TWO 
>> separate oven compartments in it; perhaps each could be set to a 
>> different temperature if you wanted to cook two separate items that 
>> needed different temperatures. I don't see anything resembling a second 
>> oven in the picture: it looks just like pretty much every stove I've 
>> ever seen with a stove top containing several burners, an oven, and 
>> finally a drawer for various cooking supplies like pans or whatever.
>
>That's a double oven. The top oven has the cloth hanging over the handle
>and below it you can see another handle on a shorter unit. It's most likely
>that the larger top oven is a regular oven and the smaller unit is just for
>broiling.

No, thst's not a double oven, The bottom part is for warming things up.
Now a days, we store dishes in it.