I'm glad to see your posting- I am also trying to find out more about the ovens, without much luck. The Fagor was recommended to me, though, as a good quality oven, with good capacity for it's size, and just today I read that the BS wall oven won't be available until sometime this year. The descriptions that I've seen for various ovens only seem to give exterior dimensions, but neither interior dimensions nor cubic size, which would help. I'm looking for a very good oven for bread and pastry baking, mostly, as I'm interested in possibly doing a bit of commercial baking on a very limited basis, and the oven in my current range is entirely unsuitable for that. I'll be following this post with interest. Sorry I have nothing more useful to offer.

Thank you everyone for the helpful replies! Much appreciated!! I found the search for a gas range to be quite consuming and confusing. It's been several years since I purchased a range and this time I took more of an interest in what I was going to chose because it will be going into my new kitchen! I was clueless how many variations of BTU's and burners and convection systems, etc. there are out there! Holy crap why so many choices and what do they all really mean... and are any of them better or worse or necessary?? My husband, bless his patient soul, compared it to the stress of buying a new car!! Can you all picture the joy we had in doing this?? :> I thought I went into this journey with an advantage because I knew what I didn't want. However, NOT so because even some of the pricey ranges offer nothing more mechanical than some of the much less costly ones... at least that is what I found to be true. I also found it not unusual for sales people to have their own favorite brand and that is where they would try to steer me. After much research, physical shopping, and help from folks like yourselves.... I felt the AR Cuisine series would fit my needs. So we purchased a 30 inch range with the 5 burner configuration. I chose this one for the dual convection system with a large capacity oven which appears to be fairly "easy?" to clean, the configuration of the BTU's were good, the sealed porcelain cook top for "easy?" clean up and the look is bold but not as commercial looking as their other series of ranges. I had contemplated the Performer series with the open burners... but shied away from it for 2 reasons. One is the power of the open flame with those high BTU's .. whoa, have any of you seen them in action?? I can definitely see the advantage to having those but the way I cook.....my omelets were doomed to be crispy and my curtains on fire! I'm exaggerating, I don't have curtains :) Two, the clean up of the stove top on the Performer would be so cumbersome and time consuming for me due to the heavier than heck grates and multiple heavy burner parts. I just could not think about having to do that every time I made a stir fry! My poor husband just looked at me in horror, for multiple reasons, when I initially said let's consider this range!! So my new Cuisine is being delivered tomorrow but the kitchen is not ready for it.... so it will sit wrapped up in the garage til....? A side note.... the store I purchased it from told me they temporarily stopped stocking AR due to a conflict with their distributor. So they sold me the range floor model at $1000.00 lower than I could find it anyplace.... it is in pristine condition! I was ecstatic and turned to my husband and said..... this is great because if I decide that I don't like it.... we can sell it for at least what we paid for it and buy a different one!! Especially now that I am such a knowledgeable range snob :> Thanks again everyone for the input! I love this site and hope to be of help to one of you sometime! Take care!

hi jeff, i live in new jersey and bought it from josh dvorson in cali. i had no problem getting mine fixed, i just don't care for the jesey dist. and chose to do the repair my self.but they are right on the ball. if you have any questions call them. we do!still no luck on the grill response? try posting in the AR owners #2 post. john 917-842-1809

jerry i don't remember off hand, i get home on the 15th or so and will try to remember to check if that helps any. with the igniter that doesn't spark, try lighting the burner with a bbq lighter if that burner lites take a small piece of tin foil, double it or so and put it under the back (wall) side of the ignitor if you send me a text with your email i'll send you a little video i sent to AR when i had that problem. it's easier then trying to explain. what you'll be doing is movng the ignitor closer to the burner but you have to be careful when you bend the ignitor over so it doesn't break the connector off thats connected under it. it's really not difficult. remember i'm not a proffesional just a guy thats mechanically inclined. : ) john 917-842-1809