30" vs 36" rangetop... Go!
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Comments (18)Hi, We just recently went through this same thing and purchased a DCS. Love it. If you go to the bottom of the page on the main appliance page you will find a search box. Put in DCS and my posts on findings etc. using it should come up. We seriously looked at an AG Wolf, but were put off by all the problems reported here with the latest models. Search for Wolf and hours of reading should come up. Anyway, for our timing we didn't want to chance it so went with the DCS. Really love it. The extra room of 36" with 6 burners is really nice. Didn't have to buy a seperate back splash as the island type one that comes on it was fine for us and has a really large oven with roller racks and convection fan. Another contender for us advertised a similar square foot rating for oven size, but we took our pans in and we were shocked at how little actual cook space it had. The DCS will fit full sheet pans in. Hope that helps. Cheers...See More48" Range -VS- 36" Rangetop+Dual Wall Ovens (see pics)
Comments (12)I have a 48" double oven range and the thing I adore the most is the smaller of the two ovens. (Which also has an infra-red broiler, which I love!) I would say that I use the smaller oven maybe five or six times as often as the larger one, even though that one is a convection model. Although smaller in width, it is very deep so I can fit tons of stuff in it. (Some brands/models are different, so you should take some typicl pans and check.) I agree with the poster above who mentions the convenience of having the ovens and the cooktop in the same appliance. I am always harping on the Forum about layouts with ovens and the cooktop separated by huge distances. Someone mentioned in reply to one of my many comments about this that they never moved food from one or the other - I can't imagine how you could cook without doing that for nearly every meal! One other combination you might consider is having a single oven, 30-36" range and a separate single wall oven dedicated to baking (if that's your thing). It could be in a different place in the kitchen as rarely do baked items travel from cooktop-to-oven. Meat, fish and (and some vegs.) being roasted -or broiled - really do benefit from being under the range hood, but rarely is that the case with cakes or pies so the lack of a hood over a separated baking oven wouldn't be a drawback. I would recommend my cooker, except that it is no longer made, so that won't help. If it died (don't expect that, ever) I would never replace it with anything less than a single baking oven paired with a 30/36" Range. The only drawback to a 48" machine is the size. It really dictates the arrangement in a kitchen. HTH L....See More30 in. vs 36 in range?
Comments (15)Hi livinggreen, I went through the same 30" vs 36" range debate three years ago when planning our kitchen. We decided on a 30" largely for financial reasons (I wanted to be able to afford the more expensive dual fuel range.) 30" is also the expectation for our neighborhood. A few friends with large families do have 36" ranges. But that is not the norm where I live, even for fancy remodeled kitchens. I can't say that I wouldn't have picked a 36" if money had been no object! But that would have been a want, not a need. We are just a family of four, and the only time I've regretted not having 6 burners was during Super Storm Sandy when we used our gas range top all cooking for a ten day period. Since that experience I can see the advantages of a six burner, or 4 burners plus a griddle. Everyone on GW who went 36" seems to be very happy with their decision. But the one thing I would add is that on a pro-style 30" range you will still have lots of room for multiple large pots on the burners. Do the math and you will see that 30" divided by 4 burners gives you more space per burner than 36" divided by six burners. I'm posting a picture of our 30" range in action with four of our largest pots. The skillet is a 4-quart All-Clad. The red Le Creuset pot on the back left burner is 26 cm/ 5.5 qt. The red pot on the front left burner is 4.5 qt. The big white Chantal pot on the back burner can cook enough pasta for a dinner party for ten. (This is a staged photo to demonstrate my point -- I've never used all four burners at one time. I don't have the attention span to watch four pots at the same time.)...See More30 vs 36 inch cooktop
Comments (28)Just a few points. You don't need a window over the sink. Keep you corner windows and then do something like this for cabinets over the sink area. You're making this more complicated than it needs to be. cpartist and I both drew our fridges a few inches from the wall. I was anticipating that it would be understood that a cabinet would need to go there to allow the fridge door to swing fully open. I'm sure cpartist was, too. It's just hard to judge without good measurements and different fridges have different requirements for this. Having the door hinges on the left so the door swings toward sink/DW would not be recommended. Access would be clumsy. The difference between our suggestions is the wall oven. I wouldn't do it. The functional aspects of a wall oven would outweigh the decrease in your kitchen's aesthetics. It will create a big, bulky cabinet at the end of that run which will make your kitchen feel smaller and be darker due to blocking the light from the windows (doors?) to the left of the wall oven as well as blocking the corner windows. It ruins your long sight lines. Of course, your priorities might be different. I love the way light plays in a room and light makes me happy. It would be a worthy trade-off to me. May I suggest that if you must do a waist-height wall oven, that you don't take the cabinet to the ceiling. Maybe something similar to this shorter cabinet? It won't block all the light and won't be such a bulky hulk. See how the light still flows past the oven and creates an open visual line? So much nicer than a cabinet to the ceiling, imho....See MoreTerri_PacNW
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