Vintage is not always cool!

The lighting of these pics is not that great,

but the color of that oven is

fairly close to what you see!

It was a vintage mustard yellow,

and although that isnt a bad color for certain other things....

it is a horrible color for an oven.

And that thing above the range that looks

like a microwave is actually another smaller

oven....and they are connected, so that is ALL.ONE.PIECE

It was probably 50 years old 

and probably had a few good stories to tell of the 

hippy years!

We had to have an electrician replace the outlet that

it was plugged into, because it was so old school...it was what 

you call a tombstone outlet

it could boil water in about 2 mins (not too shabby!)

but it would

cook a frozen pizza in about an hour (not so good)

We were going to buy a new oven, but did not 

want to pay $600+ for a smooth top range

So we did what we do best and bought it used....

Shaun found a stainless steel range on craigslist

and asked a friend who has a truck

to come with him to pick

up the oven,

(in exchange for a tank of gas and dinner at cafe rio)

We paid $75 for the oven.....and I spent about an hour scrubbing the nastiness off it, 

but check it out!! 

It baked our Christmas cookies beautifully!!