Victorian Range (functioning stove and oven)
Ladies and Gentlemen; Servants, Cooks, Maids, and Kitchen Hands; finally we have the latest in Victorian cooking technology for your big homes, mansions, halls, abbeys, palaces (or, just busy kitchens!): The Range.
IRL I want a range so badly. If I were rich enough (one day 🤞🏻) to get a Victorian house, I will make sure there's a functioning range!
There are other Victorian-style functioning ovens on the Sims 4 cc market, but none of this style (that I have found); and it was something I really wanted for my palace; we have a very big kitchen, but only small sized ovens!!
I am really not good at building from scratch, so attempts were quickly abandoned.
THEN I saw @baumgarten-sims had released a small, deco range in their Thyme Kitchen set, and I thought it was beautiful! But I lacked the knowledge to make it functioning, and it wasn't quite as big as I wanted (as pictured below).
One of the issues I thought was a big problem, was that the oven doors for these style of oven all open vertically, and there is no Sims 4 animation for oven doors to open that way. THEN Felixandre released a big oven in their Estate set, which had similar doors, but opened HORIZONTALLY (as pictured below)
DING 💡 I got the idea that I could make it work.
So began the long and arduous, and frustrating, and complicated journey to make a functioning Victorian range in the size and style I wanted for my kitchens.
One of the first features of the oven that I wanted, adding to the realism, is that you shouldn't be able to cook anything unless the fire has been lit!!! In Victorian kitchens, the first thing done in the morning was lighting the range fire - it can take a while for the cast iron oven to heat up, and maintain a constant temperature. In The Sims, however, you can cook whenever.
BUT, in comes @littlbowbub!
Littlebowbub has a Medieval Cookbook, and accompanying ovens where you have to light the fire before you can cook! Thank you LBB for saving my life, I don't think I would have been able to do it without you (or at least until I learn waaay more about writing tuning).
SO, Littlbowbub's Medieval cookbook IS REQUIRED in order to use the oven. You can download individual recipes (as labelled as part of the Medieval collection), as well as a starter pack; these recipes are actually very accurate for Victorian game-play, I love them. There's also a new "fine-dining" category, which has even more dishes for your rich sims.
With the Medieval cookbook, you also need to download Homestead Helper, this allows you to make some of the ingredients for cooking; I also recommend you download the Hunting & Foraging mod, so that your sims can go out to hunt for their meat, and forage for other things.
Like other ovens, there are two functioning elements on the top (these are the front, right-hand elements). All other elements have slots for you to put deco pots/pans, or anything.
The far right oven door is the functioning one - the other two, unfortunately due to constraints, are just decoration.
The fire in the centre is a real fire animation, and will turn on once the sim has lit the fire!
There's three versions: short, medium, and tall
There are five mantle colours, and eight brick and stone colours - so 40 swatches in total.
And, like everything I release, it's Off The Grid!!
I feel like this is such a big achievement for me, and it's really one of my favourite things!
Thank you again to Baumgarten and Littlbowbub for graciously giving me permission to release this - I am so, so glad I am able to share!
Download my Victorian Range from Patreon here!
Download the new tea towel accessory here!!
Required:
Littlbowbub's Medieval Cookbook AND Littlbowbub's Medieval Oven
You can download (but not required for this oven):
Baumgarten's Thyme Kitchen set here
Felixandre's Estate Sets here
Update 30/09/2025 - updated posts to include the requirement for the LBB Hearth Oven in order for this to work
