They make T-strips for free-standing ranges but I've never heard of anything for slide-in ranges - they just slide-in on top of the granite - that's the point. I would not caulk it - the caulk won't last well, will get dirty, and will make it difficult to move out the range, if necessary. If you can't find something at Sears specifically for your range, I would just leave it alone.

>>The front large burner seems to be heating higher than the knob setting. How do you/we know what "high" means? This sounds like Spinal Tap's amplifiers that went to 11: Why not just make them go to 10, and make 10 that much louder? Well, because... these amps go to 11. Your large front burner gets as hot... as it gets. Smart-guy replies aside, is the burner inconsistently hot--like, hotter one day than another day? Or does it just seem hotter now than it did the first 18 years of use?

Chisue Don't give up on the smooth top,but get induction instead. Your analysis is probably correct- burned on remnants and scoured off. Do you rent the condo? The difference between induction and smooth top is induction heats the pan and not the cooktop so less sticky messes that stick to the surface. BTW- even though induction is heating the pan, the glass cooktop does get warm/hot just where the pan was sitting- so don't "test" it by placing your hand on the surface- glass gets hot! (FYI - I didn't do this but remember reading about someone who did this- ouch) I only use dish soap or ceramic cleaner on mine. I have never tried Bon ami on it- but isn't Bon ami a powder- not sure if that would scratch or not. This post was edited by a2gemini on Thu, Apr 3, 14 at 11:50

In the rental we were living in prior to buying our home, I had the same problem with a kenmore stove. I was using the right burner in the front, and it decided to turn itself on high, and wouldn't shut off. It ruined my new Cuisinart nonstick pan. It did this several times. Unfortunately, the house we purchased has the same stove (and crappy dishwasher, also a kenmore, same builder built both houses) I haven't had it happen yet to me with this stove, but the front left burner is already having issues and the stove was only used for 1.5-2 years. The burner will only work on high. The model is 790.96019400. Our wall oven works, but the control panel has issues in the way that most of the lights on it stay lit all the time, when they are not supposed to do that. It's also a kenmore, model 790.47179400. And the worlds crappiest dishwasher is model 587.1514900. I really appreciate you posting this, I am going to look into this. I'm so sorry you've had such a bad week with your appliances! :o(