Viking range switch to Samsung induction? Reliability?
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Comments (6)Well, I didn't purchase the Viking Induction Range after all. Funny thing. After 3 trips to the store, 3 different sales people and 3 different recommendations, I purchased the Viking Duel Fuel VDSC530T-4B Range. Why, you may ask? It requires the entire story. When I first decided to upgrade my kitchen cooking equipment, I went to this store and looked around and did some research. I decided that I liked the VDSC530T-4B. However, the sales person we had that day recommend the Induction range due to the fact that we didn't have a vent hood. We looked at that range and I liked it enough. However, my wife absolutely didn't like the fact that it had not electronics, such as a clock, timer, display or anything. So.... onto other ideas. We go back a 2nd time to the store and a 2nd sales person. She recommended the Wolf DF204. Wife and I both liked it. I'm not a red knob snob, so that didn't impress me. It had more features than the induction range's oven, so it immediately became the front running, as far as my wife was concerned. However, the sales person informed us that the floor model induction range was due to be available for sale, hence the $4800.00 price. Induction range back in the running! After a few days pondering, we decided to go back and finalize our decision to buy the induction range, and a 3rd sales person. This time it is one of the owner's kids. He also worked previously as a Viking rep. So, he's a fan of Viking. After discussing all of this with him, he tells us that the Viking Convection/microhood is designed for use with the VDSC530T-4B as many people have a set up like us. He went so far as to get us a deal on the VDSC530T-4B for $4895.00. Long story to the finish. We purchased the VDSC530T-4B range and it was delivered last Friday the 23rd of March. (the day after my 55th birthday) It looks and works beautifully! Made cookies, bread and lasagna so far in the oven. Used the proof mode, tru-convec and regular baking modes so far. Also used the broil-Hi mode to brown some garlic toast as well. Only one issue, it was delivered with the right rear igniter malfunctioning. Looks like the tip is bent. They are coming out today to fix. Wife loves the look and functions and we love the 18,500 BTU burner when boiling a large pot of water for the pasta. Also purchased the floor model convection/microwave/hood. Seems to be just fine keeping up with the heat....See MoreWhite induction range, other than Viking
Comments (20)There is an option to get a cooktop, a compact 18" tall oven (or combi oven) and a short warming drawer. Many brands have designed a combi oven stacked up on top of a warming drawer to sit side by side a 24" oven. For white models, some extra money, and a European brand, Miele has a combo white combi oven and white warming drawer in 24" wide. There is even a white induction cook top but not available in the US. Nowadays, a bridge induction unit has two (or four, in case of BSH) rectangular induction plates. Heating is quite even. It is even recommended to put larger pot in the middle of the bridging to get a better heating coverage e.g. 12" pans or pots as each rectangular plate is roughly 7"x8"....See MoreSamsung induction range: floor model?
Comments (23)OK, here we go. I don't know how useful this will be since this is a discontinued model, but maybe it will help someone looking at a similar burner arrangement. First pic is of my new pans getting seasoned. :) (Yes, I bought bacon for the sake of the pans.) I would not normally be using pans this large all at the same time, but I wanted to see how much would fit. This is a 12" skillet, 10" grill pan, and my larger pressure cooker being used as a normal pot. I don't know the capacity of the big pot but it's, well, big. The diameter of the bottom contact area is only 7" and it works just fine on the 6" burner. It's crowded but it all did work, and I could fit a 3-qt pot on the extra burner. Next up: well, this was to show the beautiful low simmer I got about one second after lowering the heat from a rolling boil. I didn't time the boil (busy with the bacon) but it was probably about 10 min. This tall pot does partially obscure the oven controls, but at least the off-on and temp controls are on the top row so you can get to those. Last up is more normal usage for me and you can see that there is much less crowding. This was supper: okra, butterbeans, corn. That 10" skillet is my most-used pan, and you can see that a 12" would be more appropriate for the amount of okra (hence the new skillet) but I wanted to test the 10" on that burner. It is very touchy. It stayed on long enough to cook the okra, but changing the power level or moving the pan would cause a detection error (it doesn't do that on any other burner). The shorter pressure cooker pot (holding the corn) does not block the control panel. The only other comment about this is that the butterbeans did not boil over even in the little 2-qt pot (despite years of butterbean-cooking I seem to boil them over more often than not... maybe not with induction, though). Chicken took longer than I expected to roast on convection so I need to go read up on that... it's probably because my old oven didn't lower the temp for convection like this one does. I had coconut macaroons baking on the other two racks at the same time as the chicken at one point, and cooking was not even, vertically speaking (lowest rack was done first), but front-to-back seemed even and that is good. The dent in the warming drawer is bigger than I thought, now that I have been down to look at it more closely. It is quite shallow and wide so not noticeable unless the light hits it right, which it does in our kitchen. It annoys me. Jury is still out. :) I really need to be able to use my 10" skillet on that front burner. Thanks for the info, gscience. My 10" grill pan was off and on with the big burner yesterday, sometimes fine and sometimes not detected. Wonder if your Le Creuset is a little bigger....See MoreDurability/Reliability of Induction Ranges?
Comments (21)Unfortunately, we hanging out here at the Garden Web / Houzz do not get any valid statistics about actual failure rates. There are failures, and correction is expensive -- nearly as expensive as replacement -- at least in my experience with Kenmore and Frigidaire, both by Electrolux. My Kenmore failed after 7 years, but other owners incensed by early failures past the one-year warranty have lodged many complaints where product forums exist, such as at Amazon. My view is that for induction cooktops and ranges, the modest cost of a warranty extension (a bet with an insurance company) is worth the price, at least for Electrolux sourced induction cooktops that I have owned and do own. The initial warranty is usually only one year, so spreading the replacement cost, or the cost of one or two $600 electronic boards plus labor, out to past five years is worth the $200 that the warranty extension costs. With the warranty extension, then one might consider a failure prone induction unit to be leased at a tenth the lease rate for a nice automobile, and any induction unit lifetime past the 5-year point is free mileage. (I haven't determined whether warranty extensions can be extended further, thereby effectively dropping the yearly lease rate.) kas...See Moreluv2putt
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