Love this cooktop!
My husband wanted to buy a new cooktop and I thought it was silly since our 20 year old cooktop was doing just fine, except for one burner wasn't working properly. He came home with this one and I thought it was a bit extravagant, but as long as it made him happy. I wasnt crazy about stainless steel because I thought it would be a nightmare to keep clean. WRONG on all counts! This cooktop is amazing!The 20000 BTU burner will boil water in a few minutes and on the lowest setting will keep a pot of chili simmering all day without hardly stirring. So easy to control temperatures and cleaning it is a breeze. The burners are solid cast iron, heavy....and it comes with a cast iron grill that replaces 2 burners if you wish. And it looks awesome...very classy. The knobs have a cool blue glow underneath them that shines when the gas is turned on...so there is no way you can leave a burner on too easily. Would recommend this cooktop to anyone!
Great Design, Quality and Easy to Clean
Anyone who says this is difficult to clean is a m_r_n (fill in the blanks). I bought this for my wife for Mother's Day after a fair amount of research and reading the review from the first reviewer about how easy it was to clean. I previously had a GE glass top gas range that was an absolute nightmare to clean (and keep the grills clean) so frankly, I was skeptical about GE. My wife and I have had the stainless steel GE Cafe for about two months now and could not be happier. Installation is simple (unless, I guess, you find this range difficult to clean), the layout and extra center 20K BTU burner are great (especially for large pots and the 15" cast iron pan we love to use), the included griddle is fantastic for cooking crab cakes, salmon burgers, steaks, etc., the unit looks great, and best of all, it is an absolute breeze to keep clean with simply a paper towel (anyone who says otherwise is a competitor or full of baloney) or slightly damp sponge/paper towel. We've yet to have...
Mixed Feelings
I have mixed feelings about this product. On one hand, I love the overall design. GE did a great job of fitting 5 burners into a 30 inch cooktop. I looked at a lot of cooktops and they often waste a lot of space around the control knobs to one side of the burners. By putting the knobs in the front center GE conserved space that got put to good use with a fifth burner and it also makes the cooktop look very slick. I also love the griddle that's included and use it fairly often for breakfasts. I do however have some issues with the design of the burner grates. They seem to me to be too high and put too much distance between the burner and the cookware. I have a whistling tea kettle that I usually put on the medium sized burners at the front. The kettle takes much longer to boil than it did on our old glass top electric cooktop and it never really whistles much which tells me that it isn't coming to a very vigorous boil. Also, the handle of the kettle is to hot to handle without a hot...
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