I thought about getting a Viking, or commercial stove from a restaurant supply when I re did my Kitchen, but all that would accomplish is replacing what I already had in kind.
The Chambers was the Viking of its time, the whole top surface is on piece of cast iron, one of the burners has the heat output of a nuclear reactor, and one is capable of the slowest simmer. has a grill/griddle, a heated "well" that is super insulated
The oven used to be totally unreliable, but I found someone who rebuilt the ovens thermostatic gas control... install new capillary tubes etc.. Now the oven is accurate....
I wonder what drove my grandparent to buy this stove as they were very frugal people, and $184 represented a significant investment in 1941, (equals around $3000 in todays dollars)
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Breakfast with my wife in Xi'an, China..... look at all the effing peppers
uber delish though.
