Constructing an Easy-to-Clean Kitchen
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Easy Cleaning Gas Ranges, do they exist?
Comments (1)We have a self-cleaning Electrolux all gas slide-in range in our lower level kitchen. I have been cooking on it daily for the past six months while our main kitchen is being renovated. It has a stainless top with black iron grates, and is super easy to keep clean. The burners have decent power and I love the gas oven. It bakes beautifully. We had a Thermador stainless gas cooktop in our main kitchen for 21 years. The burner grates and caps were bright black porcelain, and it was a bear to keep them looking clean and shiny....See MoreWhat makes a kitchen easy to clean /easy to keep clean?
Comments (42)Quartz countertops are, for example, very easy to clean and maintain, but everything actually depends on how do you use your kitchen (how often, do you clean right after preparing a meal, etc.). Also, new kitchens are easier and faster to clean than old ones. Hiring a cleaning company once every two weeks is ideal if you regularly clean your kitchen. Once a week is best if you don't like to clean up often. Practicing this routine will make any kitchen as clean as possible....See MoreRecommendation for Easy to Clean 36 inch All-Gas Range?
Comments (39)Oh geeze, here is my anal retentiveness rearing its ugly head again but here we go again. Hang on... Probably due to the terrible review that Consumer Reports gave Bertazzoni years ago on an older model people are shying away from the new model. Does the new model make up for the sins of the last model? So how about this comparison, The Bertazzoni MAST366GASXT vs. the Fisher & Paykel OR36SCG4X1? Off the top, I can get an extra burner with the Bertazzoni. The Fisher & Paykel offers only 5 burners. The Bertazzoni has better btu numbers, going from 750 btu's to 19,000 btu's. Fisher & Paykel goes from 1,000 btu's to 18,000 btu's. One of Bertazzoni's burners goes down to 750 btu's but the rest of their burners have higher btu's. What if you want to simmer more than one sauce at a time? Fisher & Paykel's burners only go down to 1000 btu's but all of their burners go this low. I am not worried about the btu's at the high end but the low end I am worried about. Are Fisher & Paykel's 1000 btu's low enough for a gentle simmer? The Betazzoni doesn't have a storage drawer. The Fisher & Paykel does. The Betazzoni seems to have a thin rubber door seal which can wear out faster than Fisher & Paykel's more robust woven door seal. Also, on the Bertazzoni, I can easily see sauce spilling into those rear air vents at the back of the oven. Is there a way to clean these vents if this happens? The Fisher & Paykel doesn't have this problem. The Bertazzoni has a 11,000 btu infrared gas broiler. Is it similar to the ceramic infrared broiler in the BlueStar Pro range? Though infrared broilers are preferred, is Bertazzoni's 11,000 btu broiler better than Fisher & Paykel's conventional 13,000 btu gas broiler? I finally found a stat that is the same on both ranges. The baking/roasting power on both ranges have a maximum 17,000 btu's. The difference is that Bertazzoni's oven is always on and kept at a constant temperature. I've never cooked with a range like this before and I wonder how much of an advantage it really is over conventional oven that turn on and off to regulate the temperature. Finally, at least of this writing, Fisher & Paykel is offering an extended 5 year warranty on all of their products, unheard of in the industry. Bertazzoni's warranty is the conventional two years so you will have to purchase an additional warranty for peace of mind. There are other questions I have too but this is a start. The problem with appliance dealers, blogs, and reviews is that no one really seems to be a consumer advocate. Has anyone addressed the issues I brought up here? I think potential customers would like to have answers to these questions....See MoreBosch black vs stainless cooktop - easy to clean? goes w/stainless?
Comments (5)I want a gas cooktop (not induction), so the black would be a bit larger with the grates than a flat induction top. Here is a photo from Bosch of the gas cooktop with an oven below it. The photo has a black stainless steel oven - my question is what would it look like as a regular stainless steel oven. (I realize that the colors of the cabinets, countertop, and backsplash would influence how well it would go together - these details are not yet determined.) @User - thank you for the photo - even though induction tops are smooth, it is useful. I like the installation in the Bosch picture (below) with the countertop dividing the cooktop and oven (instead of a wider wood panel. @cefi - thank you for the photo. Yours and Suzanne's both suggest that the black glass oven door would resonate with the black cooktop, to make create some resonance (I think??). @Shannon_WI - I don't have space for 36". I realize that a wall oven under the counter is low, but this one (Bosch photo) seems a little hither than most. I did find out the Bosch cooktop is porcelain, so it would be much easier to clean than stainless steel cooktops (or range tops). All the gas ranges and cooktops seem to be stainless steel - yes, they look nice - but there are many comments about how hard they are to clean, and they scratch, which is why I am hoping for a porcelain top under the burners. If I can't make it work with Bosch (cooktop and oven), then KitchenAid would be the other option (slide-in range) as it is stainless with a porcelain top, but everything else would be Bosch....See Moremrspete
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