dndsmom, At that price level you can get a beautiful Italian pro-style range. European ranges come with smaller ovens. But they are quite attractive and are of good quality. You can get a Bertazzoni Professional X304GGV or a Verona VEFSGG30SS. Most people here prefer the Bertazzoni or "Berta." If you search threads here for Bertazzoni you will find my postings making fun of the small Berta oven. I am looking to get a red range. Berta plus color is just about the same price as Bluestar with color. About $4k. And the Bluestar has a huge oven that fits a full size pro baking sheet. Plus powerful 22k burners. The 30" SS Berta is about $2700 delivered. Color adds about $700. There is a recent surge of interest for the NXR. It is a Chinese made pro-style range half the cost of the American made ranges. When it comes it health,safety,food preperation I prefer to steer clear of Chinese made products. Especially for $2K.

The initial post is totally busted because no normal person would ever use the words "seamlessly," "complement," or "procurement environment." But the breathless tone is endearing in its way. See, I'm a management consultant. I know BS. I work with BS. And senator, you don't know how to BS.

Check the instructions for the range. All of these that I have recently installed, the instructions say use a 15A dedicated circuit.

Linelle, I've looked at vintage ovens on eBay esp. since I"m a big believer that stuff was made much better "back then", so I"m not surprised you have a 12-year-old range you love. I called the link gracefullyaged gave me. Very friendly, and he's going to check on the burner sizes on the FiveStar for me, so I'm not giving up on that one yet. crl, I've noticed the NXR ranges and did see them on Costco. I'll take another look. I'm remembering Costco didn't have the 30" I need, or something like that, or they had a fifth burner...can't recall, but your comment will spur me to action again! As an aside, the kitchen floor tiles are just about done. He'll finish with that today and come back and grout On Saturday. It's gorgeous. Interesting, it is a kitchen floor that looks like you'd be crazy to eat off it! Lol. Based on brick from Chicago, so has all the authentic soot and grime and dirt look of city brick! Lol.