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October 19, 2009
Help with stove/range
Help! I need to get a new range/stove/oven and am lost in they myriad of brands. Although I'd love to spend 4k on a Wolf or DCS, it's not really in my budget. I need a 30" slide in/drop in and I need it fast. Any suggestions for a serious cook?
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"Any suggestions for a serious cook?"
Mario Batelli?
A lot of people seem to like GE Profile.
Posted by: denton at October 19, 2009 5:45 PM
We love our 30" electrolux
Posted by: PHfamily at October 19, 2009 6:12 PM
If you're just looking for a basic stove, I've been very pleased with the General Electric 30-inch gas range with self-cleaning oven, self contained gas burners, and oven light. It was already present in my last apartment. It was super easy to keep clean on the stove top because of the self-contained gas burners and worked as well or better than other basic apartment stoves in terms of both BTUs and oven heat accuracy. It's about $600. My current apt has essentially the same stove from Hotpoint, but in practice, I prefer the GE. I believe it and other popular stoves are in stock at PC Richard. Other rental stoves have been chintzier in terms of the sheet metal -- not as thick.
Posted by: mopar at October 19, 2009 6:20 PM
Really like my GE Profile, the only drawback is the chintziness of the knobs. Plastic covered knobs, really? *shakes fist at GE profile product manager*
Posted by: Maly at October 19, 2009 7:51 PM
We just bought a stove that we're going to put in the rental once our reno is done. It's a frigidaire 30 inch self cleaning stove. Very functional and came in at $600. We ordered at sears on the Friday and we had it by sunday ! We looked on consumer reports and they note that you don't need to go high end to get what most reasonable home cooks require. There's so many choices in this price range, it really comes down to personal preference.
Posted by: 10thStreetReno at October 19, 2009 9:43 PM
Thanks for all of your input, Brownstoners. Although I'm not looking to drop the 4k, I am looking in the 2k range. Any thoughts there?
Posted by: crowlish at October 20, 2009 7:15 AM
Ask the guys at J & R on 7th in Park Slope. The Kenmore Elite line was rated very highly by consumer reports and I think the more expensive one was $1400. The Kenmore has a convection oven if you like to bake too. We just bought the GE Profile and its not as powerful as the one we replaced but is still great.
We ordered ours through J & R and they had it there and delivered in a few days.
Posted by: megunski at October 20, 2009 8:09 AM
I love my Chambers cooktop - puts out lots of BTUs. They were bought out by Kitchen Aid but the basic cooktop is still around if you Google it.
Posted by: Arkady at October 20, 2009 9:26 AM
We love our Jenn Air 30" slide in with downdraft and modular grill/burner option. Really good high btu burner. Good temp control. Switch out indoor grill is great. The downdraft spot is nice to push a pot off the burner to rest.
The indoor grill is surprisingly useful-
Posted by: Park Place at October 20, 2009 12:18 PM
I recently saw a 30" Bertazoni (sp?) stainless steel range for less than $2500 on the internet somewhere. Looked great. Try EBay.
Posted by: HDL at October 20, 2009 3:42 PM
We also ordered our appliances from J&R and can highly recommend them. We looked at PC Richards then ordered from them. We got the Pro Electrolux 30" and have to say its probably just as good as the regular but we wanted the look too. That being said we LOVE it. We also considered the GE cafe which got highly recommended on consumer reports but we found the construction a little shoddy.
Posted by: Rocketjen at October 20, 2009 3:46 PM
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