Opinions on Glass Top Cooking Ranges
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Comments (1)I don't have your unit. I have a KA with gas on glass in white. I have a couple of thoughts. It is generally easy to clean. However since you are comparing it with stainless, I assume you mean a similar flat top burner layout that should also be easy to clean. It has held up ok for 5 years. I have used a heavy canner on the large burner. The reflected high heat from this burner has caused some discoloration. I can imagine that this might not happen with stainless, but I have never had stainless. Since it looks so clean, the small ring of crud that forms at the burner/surface interface is obvious enough to require occasional removal of burner heads. This requires a torex head screwdriver for the KA. And speaking of KA/Whirlpool, the morons didn't use stainless screws and I am going to have to drill one pair out because they are rusted on. I can imagine a breakage scenario. I store cast iron griddles above my double wall ovens and I managed to drop one 3 feet onto my open oven door. Fortunately it only put a nice dent into the inner door frame rather than smashing through the glass window. My burners are on an island so I shouldn't be able to duplicate that screw up over the cook top. A range with a hood would probably be similarly protected from that maneuver....See MoreHelp...Gas range or glass top range????
Comments (10)Strongly recommend either gas or induction for serious cooking. I just spent a week in a friends home cross country cooking for/taking care of a sick relative. They had a Jennair smoothtop electric (about 5 yrs old); what a cooking nightmare! I was pleasantly surprised that it had plenty of power/BTUs, but the fact that heat adjustments occurred so slowly really made it difficult to get precise results and super easy to burn stuff. Also, low heat meant that it cycled on and off of high heat so you still had to be careful not to burn stuff (newer models may have resolved this). I understand that $1200 bucks is a lot of dough to shell out for hooking up gas, are there any other possible oven placements that would cost less and still work with your layout? Before you make your decision, see if you can find a friend who has a newer electric cooktop that you can spend some time cooking on. Perhaps you'll find it's fine for the kind of cooking you do, but it wasn't for me....See MoreCapital Ranges/Cook tops_Input please
Comments (2)Hi, We just got our Capital rangetop. It is one powerful thing. We did the 36" six burners. One burner did come as a small pan burner. It is the same burner ring with half the holes of the regular burners. It is built like a tank. Should last a long long time. Cleaning is not too bad. Grates are quite heavy but just lift right off. The video referred to by the first poster is something that I viewed as well and is a good to view before you make your purchasing decision. We did consider the Blue Star - they are direct competitors of Capital. I could have gone either way - but chose the Capital as I thought it looked better. Best of luck to you. Eric...See MoreInduction cook top over Gas range top
Comments (23)I am also an induction convert from gas. I agree about the control/ease of clean up etc discussed above in other posts. The one element that I really like is that I can cook at low temps equally across all the hobs. My former mid range gas cooktop seemed to always be too hot on the larger burners even at the lowest settings. I am sure if I stepped up to a high end gas cooktop or rangetop I may have been able to solve that issue. I have had the wolf induction cooktop for 2 years and am very pleased with it. Even though it has 9 levels plus boost - the levels are NOT linearly spaced but logarithmic There was a post a couple of years ago that I cannot locate from someone at Wolf/Sub Zero that explained their logic behind the 9 levels. I have found the 9 more than adequate and have never thought - gee if I could just do a "half step". I mainly use levels 1-5 once I have my pan heated. I would certainly contact BlueStar and see how they have calibrated their levels. It does look like a nice layout and a good price point. Cannot speak to the quality or longevity....See Moreshamaness
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