<p>Well…our stove is doing a slow die. The clock mechanism must be failing as it making a horrible whining noise. My husband turned the breaker off! </p>
<p>We bought 7 appliances at the same time 19 years ago. Fridge and dishwasher were replaced in December. I’m thinking this 19 year old whirlpool stove is on the other side of the bell curve.</p>
<p>We do NOT want or need anything exotic or fancy. Just a flat top electric stove. No Viking or Wolf. Electric power, white. </p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I’m going to head down to our friendly sears appliance stor tomorrow!</p>
<p>Hey thumper, I am sorry for your loss of the stove. Seriously, I hate replacing appliances. My only recommendation is to check out Home Depot and Lowes too. They always seem to have better deals and free delivery too. Sears charges too much for delivery. We keep applying for their dang credit cards too as they give you that extra 10% off.</p>
<p>Timely thread. I’m a gas stove lover with an old and dying electric stove in our lake cabin. Gas is not an option there, so I too am interested in a good quality electric stove.</p>
<p>I would go to a local appliance dealer, not one of the home improvement stores. The locals will install, handled everything, haul off the old. From our experience with home improvement stores, they farm everything out, and it is a waiting game, with excuses and delays. Never again.</p>
<p>I had a sudden death of my stove on an Easter ( in the middle of cooking dinner no less ) The very next day we went and bought a glass top , I think it was Whirlpool. We moved a year later , but still have the first house and I know that the stove is still running well. This was about 8 yrs ago.
I have a jennair with a gas stovetop and electric oven. I love cooking with gas on the stove, but the electric oven is nice because I think broiling with electricity is better.
I have been told by our repairman to avoid LG anything</p>
<p>“Stove” isn’t used so much any more. Are you talking about a cook top alone, because the oven(s) live(s) somewhere else in the kitchen? Or are you talking about a “range,” which includes both the cook top and the oven in one unit?</p>
<p>I have a Whirlpool glass top electric range and I HATE it! One burner takes forever to heat up and never stays hot enough to keep pasta boiling. Another burner gets way too hot and burns everything. Keeping the glass top clean is a pain, too, and it has scratches from some of my older cookware. </p>
<p>The oven has been fine but we’ve had trouble with the control panel – sometimes turning off the oven doesn’t really turn it off, although the display says that it’s off. Oh, and there’s no visual indicator to show when the oven is ON, so I sometimes forget to turn it off because there’s no red light like on all my previous ovens. The red light on this stove only indicates that the glass top is still hot.</p>
<p>I have been thrilled with our whirlpool gold seried stove, and some other whirlpool appliances too. To my recollection, whirlpool makes Kennmore(and a couple others).
Let me say up-front that I know not all care but for the wife and I, we appreciate that whirlpool is American owned and mostly(sometimes all) American made. Here again, I know it isn’t important to all, but we prefer to keep America working.</p>
<p>Since I absolutely detest glass tops, I am not a good source of advice. :)</p>
<p>Not to derail your thread, but I have a cooktop problem. I currently have a Thermador electric cooktop that dates probably from about 1980. It has 4 burners and a built-in grill/griddle, which I adore. Unfortunately, the two big burners are shot and the heat reflectors and rings and so forth on all the burners are rusted through and non-functional, and replacing all of them would cost over $700. I wanted to redo the whole kitchen and replace it with a 6-burner range, but have given up on that idea, which means I need to replace the cooktop. I was gas, and have a propane tank, but it would cost some substantial amount ( at least $500) to have a line run from the tank to the kitchen. Meanwhile, we have found out that we can expect an underground natural gas line to be installed past our house, with free hookup for us, in the next 2-3 years. I don’t want to buy a propane unit and pay to hook it up when we will have gas so soon. Meanwhile, I’m down to two small burners and the grill. It’s practically like having a hot plate. I’m thinking of getting the cheapest possible electric cooktop until the gas arrives.</p>
<p>I have Whirlpookl Duet washer/dryer, and love them. And I made sure that the models I bought were made in the USA.</p>
<p>VH, I was prompted by this thread to take a look online. Much to my relief, there actually are 36" cooktops with coils available, and they are indeed the cheapest. Maytag even makes one with 5 burners.</p>
<p>Consolation, I hope they run gas through your neighborhood soon, but you know how these things go. Three years?? By then you’ll be good friends with your coil cook top!</p>
<p>I love our Whirlpool gold flat glass top double oven. It’s great to be able to cook two things at once. I bought it about 18 months ago at Lowes. I usually buy appliances at Sears since my husband used to work for them but Lowes was cheaper.</p>
<p>I’ve had 3 flat glass top ovens over the years. As long as you clean up spills right away they are fine. However if you let something boil over and continue cooking and it “burns” onto the top underneath the pan well then it can be a pain to clean. My husband knows to clean stuff up right away but well my kids that’s another story.:)</p>
<p>Our repair person suggested we NOT go for the fancy stuff on top of the stove. old fashioned knobs tend not to break, and are cheaper. Not to mention we have a cat who for better or worse climbs on things and I was afraid that if we got one that she could turn on by accident something bad could happen. Ours is KitchenAid, and it’s been fine.</p>
<p>GE is still highly rated by Consumer Reports, and they still are a good resource for this. Even though stoves have glass tops now the heat given to each burner still matters. Research those details from the major manufacturers online. You may want to spring for a stove with that fast heating burner and not just the cheapest of the brand. Our current house came with a top of the line GE Profile, perhaps would not have gone that high end. Do appreciate the 6-9-12" burner and the other features, though. Our last GE was a coil model- more coils per burner size than any other stove, and more “power”.</p>
<p>If I were buying new, and unable to connect to gas, I would go with induction over standard electric. Gardenweb.com was the go-to for appliance reviews when we were remodeling our kitchen.</p>
<p>According to JD Power, the Kenmore was the winner.</p>
<p>Agree with checking Home Depot and Lowes (and if you have a Discovercard, they are giving 5% back on these kinds of stores this quarter), but also consider Costco. Looks like they carry Maytag and Amana.</p>
I’m thinking of getting the cheapest possible electric cooktop until the gas arrives.</p>