<p>I really like our cooktop because it is dark with a white speckled design throughout that hides when we burn things and don’t do a thorough job of cleaning. It’s more fire giving than a solid glossy top–white or dark.</p>
<p>Update…I ordered the whirlpool flat top stove from one of our local appliance stores. It will be delivered Thursday afternoon!</p>
<p>Piggies will be happy.</p>
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<p>Do you have access to propane? I switched out an electric stove for a duel fuel that could used with propane and have been very happy with it. We have a tank along side of the house.</p>
<p>I’m perfectly happy with my glass top electric. We have a large propane tank…of the NEXT owner wants gas, they can get it!</p>
<p>Thumper - I knew what you meant by “stove”. We LOVE our smooth top, but it works best with very flat bottom pots and pans. </p>
<p>Let us know what you pick. Our house is 19 years old, and the stove (and DW) are original. It’s only a matter of time. Still not sure if we should be tempted by Induction next time.</p>
<p>I got the whirlpool. It’s the one I mentioned upstream somewhere. Four burners and two have dual sizes. Warming burner. Regular and steam cleaning oven cleaning options. Concealed bottom oven coil. </p>
<p>No convection, no induction. </p>
<p>$700 including tax, delivery, removal of old stove, and all cords.</p>
<p>Have fun with new stove! The stove that came with this house is much fancier than I would have sprung for. Wonder if the new owner of our old house has replaced the 10 year old coil stove or 20 year old top freezer refrigerator yet… Need to wait awhile to replace top loader nonefficient washer since it is only 6 and we have just spent tons on the house to update other stuff. In a few years H won’t complain…</p>
<p>Just because we are getting old(er) doesn’t mean we can’t have new, up to date appliances every so often. Some things just won’t deteriorate but shouldn’t be stuck with them - especially when young adults get the new stuff.</p>
<p>New range was just delivered. To be honest, it looks a lot like my old one, but with a digital clock. It looks fine. They suggested running the oven at 350 for an hour or so…so that’s what I’m doing now. It didn’t take long to heat up at all. Nice big window into the oven…bigger than the old one.</p>
<p>It’s all white, the old one had some stainless trim which I never liked.</p>
<p>Nothing fancy, but then I’m not much of a fancy cook!</p>
<p>Thumper, is there an odor? I was warned that my new oven would smell when I first turned it on.</p>
<p>It didn’t.</p>
<p>Thumper, if you don’t have one already, I would definitely recommend buying an oven thermometer. My old oven used to be off by about 80 degrees, though for some reason I’m more frustrated by my new one’s being off by about 25 since it’s digital controls instead of analogue.</p>
<p>There is a teeny smell but nothing worse than when you self clean.</p>
<p>I have an oven thermometer. I’ll have to hang it in the oven to see how accurate it is. I don’t bake cakes much, and I never make souffles:)</p>
<p>And the pig salt and pepper shakers are sitting on their new home!</p>
<p>You should share a picture of the pigs in their happy new home. :)</p>
<p>“Concealed bottom oven coil” - Oooooh… I didn’t know there was such a thing. I learn a lot of good stuff on CC.</p>
<p>Thumper - It sounds like you found the right option. (I may just skip research when our time comes). Good luck!</p>
<p>In my range research, I found that only the very bottom of the line stoves still have the exposed element in the oven. I quickly decided that was one feature I was willing to pay for!</p>
<p>I will say, I probably would have gotten one model UP of the GE except it had a sloping top ledge. The winner there…porcelain oven racks that self clean in the oven!</p>
<p>Enjoy your new oven!</p>
<p>Oooooo - thumper, I like the idea of racks that self-clean. Typically if you leave the racks in during self-cleaning, it makes them impossible to slide. So one has to wash and scrub the racks by hand which, in my book, should not be necessary for something that costs so much money.</p>
<p>I know your piggies took priority, but in my book racks that can live in the oven while it self-cleans would have been my choice. Too bad I didn’t know about that when I chose my oven.</p>
<p>Those porcelain racks did call out to me…but really, my 19 year old racks were fine…without that option! Pigs took priority. PLUS that GE model was a more expensive one. Cheap me!</p>
<p>I’m bookmarking this thread. Very useful information as I suspect we will be looking soon for a new range. Anyone have any info/ experience with newer Jenn-Airs? Have a 29 year old one. It has been a great workhorse but knobs are falling off, fan is unreliable and I’m getting comments from family about the small rock that holds up bottom element. It has solid (like fused coils) electric elements which can be changed over to grill or griddle – would really like to keep that feature. </p>
<p>Thumper1 – don’t remember which magazine, but recently saw a kitchen design spread that featured the new kitchen trend – white appliances.</p>
<p>Porcelain oven racks? I didn’t know about that. We don’t need to clean the oven very often, but it would be great if the racks could stay in and get cleaned too.</p>
<p>White appliances! Yay! I’ve really liked our 1993 white appliances ( dw has black panel and stove has black trim). When we replaced the fridge a few years ago, I just couldn’t get excited about mixing in stainless - we went with a black fridge. Maybe if we drag our feet longer we’ll be trendy?</p>