LG or GE Appliances - need input please?
Missy Morosky
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'Large family' appliances - input needed
Comments (9)Hi, we have a family of 10, and are home all day with homeschooling, so I can relate. Are your kiddos young, or, like ours, have most reached their full eating potential and bring their hungry friends? ;-) We put in a 48" rangetop with 8 burners and a double oven. I was planning for not only our daily needs now and holiday dinners, etc., but our lives down the road when there are spouses and kids, and possibly dinners for approx 18 adults and 40 kids. :-) We also have 2 dishwashers, and 2 Electrolux all-fridges (one for the cooking area and one with milk, sandwich and salad makings, fruit, condiments, etc. nearer our eating areas) and 1 all-freezer. In a 36" rangetop you should be able to get six 12" burners. Sometimes I think a big center burner would be helpful when we do stirfry or use our 15 1/2" skillet or our 16-qt pot, which is 12" in diameter, plus handles.. As long as the other 4 burners would hold the bigger pots, which are usually 9 or 10 inches, you could be OK. I didn't consider any rangetop or cooktop that had small burners. We just don't use smaller pans as often, and they do fine on the larger burners on the rangetop....See MoreAdvice on GE Advantium 240 & GE Monogram appliances
Comments (10)Mine are 2004 vintage. Love the 6 burner gas range as every burner has high btu and good simmer. Flipping a grate for wok is cool. The grates on the newer models feel flimsier. The oven is okay, it has three racks, but they are too close together, wound up taking one out. Temperature control and distribution are fine. DW is good. Very quiet, cleans well, cycle takes a long time on the air dry phase, and there is no way to turn it off. Refrigerator over under- no issues except hard to keep freezer drawer organized. MW - no issues. Hood- no issues. They all look Beautiful and have required no repairs....See MoreKitchen Appliance Selection, input please
Comments (9)I agree with Gary, don't bother indoor grilling if you have such mild weather. Ventilation becomes a much bigger issue, and even with a powerful hood, all that smoke... no thanks. Re: Wolf ovens, know that if you want the "new design" avoid the L series. They will be replaced with the M series late this year that will have the removable bottoms, but that will be quite the wait. I believe that the new generation of the E series which has already been released has the removable bottom though. Research all you want, but these ovens have not been on the market very long and nobody has owned them long enough to prove anything. Of course the salesman will say they've fixed the problem, but who trusts salesmen? Or he may just pull the classic Wolf salesman move of denying the problem ever existed, or saying it was fixed years ago. I think it might be more helpful to call Wolf and ask them about it. It seems that Wolf is more honest about their products than salesmen are. "You don't really need a flame thrower rangetop to cook steaks well. A good and well seasoned cast iron skillet on an average gas top will produce fine results" Well of course nobody NEEDS a flamethrower rangetop. But pretending that a 15K BTU sealed burner will do as good of a job as a 22K open is just ignoring the truth. Maybe the result won't be that different, but cooking on high performance burners is just a better experience. It's hard to explain to someone else in words, but most people will understand what I'm talking about once they've tried it. Of course, BTU's aren't the only thing that matter. Burner design matters more. I like open burners better and would take a 15K Bluestar burner over a sealed 18K burner any day. Different people have different needs but I'm convinced that for the majority of people at least, high BTU open burners are the best choice if they are in the budget. And you don't need to be a professional chef to benefit from them, I think any home cook can. Now, I personally prefer induction, but if you are looking in that price range and are getting gas, I don't see why you should spend as much as or more than the cost of an open burner range and get an inferior product....See MoreKitchen Aid or GE Profile appliance opinions needed
Comments (26)We have the KA CD 25 sq ft. side by side ref. It has performed very well except that the icemaker periodically will stop working. The fill tube that comes from the top of the freezer will freeze up, stopping the flow of water. I give it a squeeze with the pliers (it is a rubber tube) and it starts working again. Have had 2 service calls for this problem in 2 years. Too many for a $2100.00 ref. Other that that it is fine. Maintains temp fine, shelf space is great, etc. We have GE monogram rangetop and oven. It looks like the burners on the GE Cafe line are similar to the monogram burners, but the output on the Cafe line is less. I don't know about profile. A couple of the profile ovens seem to have the same specs as Monogram, but cost less. Or at least that was the case 2 years ago when I built the house. My opinion is that either brand will be fine. Buy the specs and the style you like and enjoy....See Morekudzu9
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