GE Cafe Series Stove
Hi there- We need a new stove and are contemplating a GE Cafe Series stove with 5 burners including a powerful 18,000 BTU burner. It costs around $2300, which is just in our budget. Does anyone have any experience with this or any other GE stove? Or, is anyone in love with their current stove…
Hi there- We need a new stove and are contemplating a GE Cafe Series stove with 5 burners including a powerful 18,000 BTU burner. It costs around $2300, which is just in our budget. Does anyone have any experience with this or any other GE stove? Or, is anyone in love with their current stove that is about the same price (or less!)?
Ideally, we’d love a Blue Star or Wolf or Capital (we are serious cooks), but can’t swing it now.
I notice that all of the questions and comments are a year or more old. Has anyone had any experience with a GE Cafe, 30″, gas and electric hybrid more recently? Has the right burner problem been solved?
If anyone could possibly help with my issue, I would be very appreciative!! I purchased a GE Cafe duel fuel stove in Jan. I have baked many things in the electric oven (hearing that electric ovens are the BEST) and everything that I have baked has fallen, sunk and not cooked in the middle. I thought that the problem was me because I have always baked with gas, so I kept on trying to no avail. I even changed all my ingredients thinking that perhaps they were old. STILL everything falls. I am crying now because I think I may have made a terrible mistake buying this stove. I had the GE repair tech over and he replaced the sensor. He said that was the only thing that he could do. When he checked the oven temp with a digital thermometer, the temp varied so much I figured THAT was the problem. He said ALL electric ovens have wide oven temp variations. When we set the oven to 375, it heated up to 430!! then cycled off and the temp dropped to 310!! Am I S.O.L???? No wonder everything falls, these extreme oven temps will never perform properly…..can anyone help??? Thanks ever so much!!!
I bought a GE Cafe Range and agree with the post that the right front burner controls. When you try to lower the flame below 8 it is the same upto Lo. This is not much of a problem as if you need finer control you can use the front left burner which has finer control. However in my view there is a problem of the height. For the two big burners on the front, the height of the grill may be ok, but for the back small burners the grill is too high. It takes a long time to boil something on the back burners. You cannot use the front burners with small pans as the flame spread outward heating only walls. I think they should provide grills a little lower.
I just bouught this oven yesterday. My question is do they make any type of grill grate that would fit in where the griddle sits? I would love to be able to grill with that 5th burner but can find the grill.
Thanks
I also concur with the Frustration with the front right burn. It is on high boil or nothing. We have had 3 different techs look at. 3 different ideas were applied to try to fix this problem. Problem still persists and GE says this is a system design and that is that. So if you want 3 fully functioning burners and a nice center burner, this range it fine. But at this price point all burners should be fully functioning. Might be best to stay away from the GE Cafe until they correct the design of the front right burner.
I did a lot of comparing of the different upscale stoves and have cooked on everything from Wolfe to Kitchenaid. I chose a GE Cafe dual-fuel stove because of the quality of the product for the price. It gives me the evenest of electric baking with the quality of gas cooking. I did get mine for $1100.00 from Direct Appliances here in Florida. I don’t look at the knobs when turning my flame down and I use the griddle for the lower heat in the front if that’s what I want. The right burner doesn’t boil as quickly as the left for reasons that I don’t know but it’s a small thing.
I really recommend this product. I just wish I could find a product line that I liked all the appliances in but that’s a pipe-dream.
Happy cooking!
I concur with the Looks/convection satisfaction, but agree, the front right burner is a dud. The 18,000 BTU doesn’t boil water as quickly as the 17,000 BTU front left and the control stair-steps from too high to too low far too quickly. In addition, both throw too wide a flame for any smaller size pots. My other beef is that the low BTU burners are misplaced. If I am boiling a pot of pasta and a pot of veggies and am making a sauce I have to cook the sauce on the back burner, which means I have to reach over or around the boiling pots in the front. I wish the locations were reversed, so at least one low burner were in the front.
“To: quest at June 5, 2008 9:43 AM: I am seriously considering buying a GE Cafe, and your comments are quite helpful, but on June 5 you say you have a GE Profile Convection, but in earlier posts you said you had a GE Cafe. Which one were you telling about? Thanks. Posted by: journey”
Because they are registered as ‘guest’, I think it’s safe to assume that these are two different people 😉
I appreciate everyone’s comments on the GE Cafe. I’ll be buying a new range in about 2 weeks and was seriously considering this model. .. I’ve changed my mind.
To: quest at June 5, 2008 9:43 AM: I am seriously considering buying a GE Cafe, and your comments are quite helpful, but on June 5 you say you have a GE Profile Convection, but in earlier posts you said you had a GE Cafe. Which one were you telling about? Thanks. Posted by: journey