The Wolf professional dual fuel...A beautiful range with 15,000 BTU burners, clock and timer, 500 BTU simmer and two convection fans for even cooking.
Feast your eyes:
Unfortunately, the price is over $5200. For most people this may be a little extreme. so lets stay with this style of range and look at a
GE Cafe: This new range is very compelling at $2300. How compelling...One 17,000 BTU burner as well as a fifth element, a convection oven plus a second oven below(where the storage drawer was)...But $2300 can be pricey so how about....
A Frigidaire Professional: I really like this range. For $1500, Frigidaire has a 16,000 BTU burner, convection and a second oven
Three very likeable products....
I am psyched that you are doing this topic. I, too, have looked at the GE Cafe series for our upcoming kitchen renovation. I am really torn about whether our kitchen "needs" professional appliances and I get differing opinions from everyone I ask. I am a mom of three young kids who cooks almost everyday..sometimes gourmet but usually pot roast, chicken cacciatore and the like. I currently use a slide-in Frigidaire Gallery series electric stove/oven/warming drawer that I like except that the oven is too small for big meals. I was thinking that with the increased oven capacity of the Cafe plus the bake feature of the warmer drawer along with (perhaps) an avantium microhood thingy I might be able to solve the oven capacity problem without designing a kitchen that calls for the cooktop and double wall oven/warmer configuration. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteGlad I can help....
ReplyDeleteYou are certainly on the right track with the 2 oven stove, but two hypotheticals for you to ponder...
A. There is not that much more room between the GE Cafe and the Frigidaire. I will measure tomorrow
B. The Advantium(I am assuming the over the range) is a great piece of equipment. It performs all the functions of a range just 4 times faster...or 8 times depending on the model.
However, it is only 1 cubic foot..Not much room for a pot roast or cacciatore.