Magic Chef

Magic Chef, Inc. (formerly the American Stove Company) is an appliance brand currently owned by CNA International Inc.

The business sold housewares, early washing machines, and cooking stoves they called "quick meals".

In 1881, George Kahle persuaded his brothers-in-law, Charles and Louis Stockstrom, to set up a shop to manufacture stoves.

[5][6] In 1958, it was sold to Dixie Products,[7][8] a small stove company of Cleveland, Tennessee, after selling off a few underperforming divisions of Magic Chef.

[11] Magic Chef also made home furnaces and air conditioners; that operation was sold to Lennox International in 1988.