I believe it is a nominal 240 at 50 Hz., modern circuits usually 13 amps which is very convenient. Most appliances these days are fused right at the plug, a little cartridge fuse on a mounting right in the plug where it should be. The circuit is fused too, now with breakers but when I was there it was a porcelain fuse holder through which you threaded a length of fuse wire.
Many of the home renovations done on programmes like This Old House end up with extreme kitchens. Things like two sinks in different locations, freezer drawers and cooling drawers, refrigerators larger than my bathroom and the most gigantic ranges. Stainless steel has been the finish of preference, this may be changing now, I can't imagine keeping stainless steel looking nice in that quantity but they do. Granit seems to be the preferred counter top material, hundreds of pounds per section. Don't spill acid or forget to wipe up immediately after setting something like an orange on it though or you will have the image on it until ground and polished off. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Kennedy To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] all I want for christmas is a double oven range+reason for gas question Sounds like almost a commercial set up. I've remodeled kitchens for people before and something of that scale was never mentioned. I could build one in easy enough but I'd leave there shaking my head... Hinged on the side? I have lead a sheltered life it seems... Isn't it true in England they run everything on 220 volts? Never been there before, but I seem to remember hearing that before. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] all I want for christmas is a double oven range+reason for gas question Bob, They make huge ranges these days, several feet wide, the sort of thing you would expect to find in a commercial kitchen. They include warming drawers, things I don't understand and even on the cook tops things like griddles, barbecue pits and six or eight elements. You probably need a hundred amp circuit for the range alone. I remember our next door neighbour in Kirkland Lake when I was just a kid about the mid '50s having a side-by-side oven electric range. I don't remember much about it except how proud she was with it. They were a family who had it all on the never never plan, a progression of television sets which were really new up there at the time and we only received one television signal and that pretty fuzzy from Timmins about 70 miles away. Anyway, what I remember mostly was that it was huge and my mother commenting on the fact that dear Juliette didn't really cook when she had a single oven. I don't remember what if anything was under the ovens, maybe just storage drawers maybe nothing at all. I don't recall there being more than four elements on the top either and that was well before ranges had exhaust fans integrated into them. Double ovens were relatively common in England but usually one over the other and usually hinged on one side. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Kennedy To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] all I want for christmas is a double oven range+reason for gas question The double oven I was talking about in the wall is the one over the other style. I would think a side by side would require a lot of baking to make it worth the lost space. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] all I want for christmas is a double oven range+reason for gas question Coil cook tops are still made and they also still make the solid plate type. While I haven't been in the market for a range in a long time the standard sizes are 24 and 30 inches. There are now many larger as well. I have only seen double side-by-side ovens in wider ones but there may be some as narrow as 30 inches I don't know that. I have also seen some one above the other but not often, more commonly when I lived in England. So, they do make the top you want but I don't know about the double oven. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Hecker To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:33 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] all I want for christmas is a double oven range+reason for gas question There's a twist. I want a double oven range with a *coil* cooktop. However, I don't know of any ranges that have this setup, so thought gas (at least for the top) was my only choice. Hence, I asked about running a gas line. Now, lets suppose gas is not an option. Can you fit a double oven and a cooktop in the same space as a standard range? This is assuming of course coil cooktops are still made. 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