Live Better Electrically Retro 1950s TV Commercial

[radientmarlo]

"more and more women are changing to elctric cooking." why don't the men change?

Oh right, they didn't cook then.

[411Soulman1]

To fiftiesFlashback, GAS broilers are better, but make sure the btus are at least 18000.

[411Soulman1]

Now, GE makes GAS and "duel fuel" ranges! Yay!

[MattTheSaiyan]

Apparently, these days it is sexist to mention women and kitchens in the same sentence, but it is OK to consider football & beer as something all guys love. Huh.

[Dreamer00]

@MattTheSaiyan

Both are equally sexist.

[Fiftiesflashback]

Electric ovens are great, but nobody like an electric range top...

Do gas & electric broil the same or is a gas broiler also better?

[KrystalKowalas]

wtf is up with 0:45 ? more and more women? sexist people from the 50s

[RaveriusMax]

@KrystalKowalas its not really sexist, thats just the way our communities and culture was in the 50s

[bob4analog]

@RaveriusMax

So True! I remember it well.

[kerryincolumbus]

@KrystalKowalas .....whatever u frickin' LESBO! It's wasn't considered sexist back then.. it wasn't until you GD LESBIANS got the notion to try and make America more like that TRASH that lives in Europe, where they embrace the sickness called LESBOLOVIN' !

[Sheri451]

The house I'm sitting my nieces two step sons was one a total electris home, It still has celing heat boxes in the walls but the man that bought it and rents it put in a heat pump and air conditioner. The house looks like it was built in the early 1960s. It's older than I am and I'm 46. There's no fireplace, so If they had a power failure they wouldn't have any water or heat to cook since there are no gas lines through here, or city water .

[auaiao9]

@Sheri451 All electric homes started before the 1960's. The house I grew up in was built in 1948 and it was all electric. Fireplaces and gas were never built into the place so if the electricity went off we had no heat or hot water. I guess the "Live Better Electrically" campaign took on full speed in the 50's but I can remember it still going on in the 60's.

[bob4analog]

@Sheri451

No such thing as power outages anymore...! ;-}

[Sheri451]

@bob4analog If you can afford an expensive generator there won't be any more power failures. Anyway. I believe I'd rather have a gas stove. The ones they sell now have no pilot light, they plug into the outlet and when you turn the knob, it makes a tick tick sound and your flame is on. And you can't smell gas from them. Except if you have a two year old who accidently turns the knob on low so the flame won't come on. Then you hide the stoves knobs in the cabinet

[bob4analog]

@Sheri451

Gas is probably the better way to go now anyway, considering that electric power costs have now gone up, or at least it has where I live.

[Sheri451]

@bob4analog It's the same here too. We're prisoners of Duke Energy.

[kerryincolumbus]

@Sheri451 LOL!!! those last 2 sentences cracked me UP!! good job!

[Sheri451]

@kerryincolumbus That's what the little girl I care for did last year. They ought to make a gas stove with the knobs on the top near the burners so little ones can't reach them, instead of near the oven door

[kerryincolumbus]

@Sheri451 oh.. ok, sorry.. I hope she didn't hurt herself.. I didn't know

[Sheri451]

@kerryincolumbus I wasn't insulted. She didn't know what she was doing, She had saw her older sisters and her Mom cooking and was trying to imitate them. She turned on the knob , not to light, but low, it didn't ignite . It just made the gas come out from the nozzle and the house smelled like gas, Her Mom smelled it and turned off the knob and opened the windows, They put the knobs in a tumbler now and put them on a shelf where she can't reach them.

[BaronDixon]

Nice use of "Many a New Day" as the underscore! It really fits!

[xytronite]

more and more WOMEN lol, good ol' sexist 50's america;)

[calimar28]

That looks like my stove today! And my stove is like from the 80's.

[67tr876]

@calimar28 Most today still look like that to. from the 50s

[mayoje74]

That stove looks a lot like the one we were using until about 5 years ago. Now I'm wanting another one like it.

[ZARMAR526]

We have a beautiful, excellent condition 1957 model, with original owners manual, meat thermometer in original box, and griddle. Everything works and all buttons still light up. Very small ding on front.

[DuckReconMajor]

Cool