Hi everybody, I hate to post on GW to try and find out facts I should be able to otherwise get, but this seems to be the best source. I am potentially interested in the 30" Capital Culinarian gas range. The appliance stores around here do not stock Capital, except for one Capital Precision 36" floor model I saw (it was very nice!). The store salesmen have not been very knowledgeable because they aren't very familiar with products they don't sell. On the 'net, I see mixed information across different sites. It seems like old and new model features, Precision and Culi, and manual and self-clean features get mixed up. For example, Culinarian 30" Manual-Clean MCOR304N is listed as 4.6 cu ft, 4.9 cu ft and 4.1 cu ft across different web sites. So that brings me to GW. Hoping Trevor or somebody else "in the biz" can help me out. I am trying to understand the difference between the manual and self clean versions of the 30" Culinarian. As I understand it: MANUAL: - 3 x 23K BTU/hr - 1 x 8K BTU/hr - stainless steel divider between left and right burner grates - drip tray on ball bearing rollers - convection - 18K BTU/hr ceramic broiler SELF: - All the above - ball bearing rolling racks, which don't roll out very smoothly - glass cover for broiler - self clean - rotisserie Are the interior volumes the same? Is the convection the same, or is the self-clean more even? Lastly, can that ugly stainless steel divider between the grates be swapped out for a cast iron grate or is that now a thing of the past?

As long as you have adequate make-up air (MUA) to go along with the 1200 CFM, you should have no issues. I have 1500 CFM with a passive MUA. 1200 should be more than enough. I have a friend who put in a Viking and a 1200 CFM and it smoked. After talking to him, it turns out that he didn't factor in MUA at all. I advised him to open his windows BEFORE grilling, while the grill was warming up. That made it much better, to the point where he could use the grill again. I have a 48" CC with the 12" grill and I use it all the time, at least weekly. I even use it in the summer instead of my Weber outside. The CC's grill is a much better grill and I prefer cooking on it. If you do get the grill, your only regret might be that you didn't get the 24" grill. I only got the 12" and I wonder about that sometimes. This post was edited by jscout on Mon, Dec 10, 12 at 7:23

Hi Eran. I have a 36" CC 6 burner rangetop. The "small pan" burner (top left) looks like this: 1. The burner is the same size as the others, but the diameter of the holes is smaller and there are fewer of them. I've put all my pans, large and small, on that burner. 2. Mine was ordered over two years ago and came on time without issue. 3. I was slightly concerned about this also at first. From what I read over in Appliances before purchasing, these are very, very simple machines. No electronics. Any repair person knowledgeable enough to work on a BS or KA or Wolf rangetop should be able to repair a CC. You might order a few extra spark modules if you're concerned that Capital won't be around in 20 (or whatever....I have no idea about their longevity) years when/if you need them. I assume you've slogged through the dozens of threads on the CC over in Appliances. If you can get past the testosterone-filled arguing, you'll find lots of helpful info. Let me know if you have any other questions!

The 25 btu burner is 5" wide so i guess that as small as you would use on that burner. The simmer burner is only 3" wide i think so that would also be the smallest