bluestar/culinarian vs. induction for high heat cooking
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48" bluestar, amateur cooks, need opinions on vah vs bs hood
Comments (9)So, is this 48-inch BS in the staff quarters or where guests will congregate and chat while food is being prepared? If the latter, then you want the quietest possible high flow hood. This entails at a minimum a roof-mounted blower or remote in-line blower and an in-line silencer on 10-inch ducting. My usual recommendation for actual air flow rate capability for a baffled hood with an assumed 8 square feet of aperture is 720 cfm. This calls for a blower rated at least at 1080 cfm at zero static pressure, but given the possibility of some combination of cooktop and oven use where oven spillage is the most difficult effluent to capture, I'd aim higher. For an island setup, I'd aim for a 1500 cfm rated roof blower. With a wall set-up 1200 should do. (For most cooking you would operate at a reduced blower setting and there will be little fan or baffle turbulence noise.) I use a 1500-cfm rated blower with my Wolf (Independent) Pro-Island hood with a 10-square-foot aperture, but don't have a griddle and have another 1000 nominal/600 likely cfm capable vent over the separately located ovens. A suitable source of (possibly conditioned) make-up air is also necessary. kas...See MoreBluestar--All that cast iron retaining heat during summer cooking
Comments (17)I would disagree with applnut on the length of time it takes for the bowls to cool down. I have not measured it yet on my 36" 6 burner BS range top, but I know for sure it is not hours to the point where I can safely touch them. I will try to remember to get a better idea in the near future and post back. I will agree with applnut on the Wolf oven though, I have found that if you close the door after cooking and leave it closed the interior well remain very hot for several hours. I have personal experience with our L-Series 30" single wall oven and doing that shortly after we first got it late last year/early this year. We had cooked something, we were new to the oven and we were wandering around the new kitchen so the door on the oven got fully shut. We went and watched some TV and came back at least 2 hours later. I opened it up to put a rack back in it and it had to be over 250F still, it was crazy and it was OFF for sure. Phil...See MoreBluestar platinum vs Capital Culinarian
Comments (56)Hi Everyone, We are upgrading our kitchen and I am interested in. 48 inch open burner stove. I am trying to decide between blue star and capital. I am wondering about evenness of the burners. I currently have a midrange GE stove and I cannot stand it because the burners heat unevenly. The rear half of the front left burner is significantly hotter than the front half. Is there a significant advantage to the star shaped burner vs capitals round burners with respect to evenness? I am also interested in how easy it is to control burner output. By this I mean how gradual are the burner attenuators programmed. On my current stove basically most of the control between high and low is actually between 2 and 3. From 3 to high there is not that much change in heat output. Also how low are all of the burners able to go. Any time I need to cook something on low do I have to move it to the summer burner or do all the burners get quite low? Last question is about how powerful is the griddle on the capital stove and do you find it particularly useful? Thank you in advance for any insight you can provide....See MoreMiele vs Samsung vs BlueStar vs Wolf Induction Cooktops + Service
Comments (44)So, time to chime in here. I went with the Blue Star 36" induction cook top 2 years ago. Looks great, LOVED the knobs, worked fantastic... for about 18 months. I'll note that unlike their other products it only has a 1 year warranty. First, the two rightmost burners started indicating they were overheating when the central burner was in use (and the rightmost were not). I reset the system at the breaker per the manual and it rand great for three weeks with a hitch, then the central and right top burner cut out entirely. Three days later they came back, but wouldn't heat above level 7 (out of 10). I had (or so I thought) the good sense to get an extended warranty, but after getting a service guy out here the warranty company informs me it will cost more to fix than I paid in the first place, so they're going to cash me out. Blue Star may be good in other areas (no experience here), but based on my experience with this one, I don't think they have enough time making this product to reach their usual degree of reliability. Addendum: looks like Blue Star (when I bought it) had a narrower cut out (18") than anything currently on the market, including their own product. At least it looks like they're learning from past mistakes......See Moretyguy
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