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Gas Range - Simmer/Warming Burner = Useless???
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Posted by dan_in_austin (My Page) on Sun, Feb 7, 10 at 23:58
| We've recently been looking at new appliances for a kitchen remodel and are having problems making decisions. We're in the low to mid range of budget - Whirlpool Gold, low end KA, low end GE Profile, etc. We're not big or fancy cooks.
One of the things that's been bugging us about the ranges that we've seen is that all of them have at least one warming burners. Seems like a waste of a burner. With gas, can't you just turn it down? One of the ranges has 2 of the 4 burners at 6,000 BTUs, which I assume are lower than old school gas burners. Will we grow to love these? Maybe we just don't understand. Or does 4 burner range with 2 simmer burners mean that we'll only have 2 cooking burners?
Also, pretty much every salesperson that I've spoken with has suggested that we steer clear of Frigidaire. Are they all biased somehow, or is that common knowledge here on the forum?
Sorry to repost this from a different thread, but my post was pretty far down and it seemed nearly dead. |
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RE: Gas Range - Simmer/Warming Burner = Useless???
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| I have a Frigidaire Gallery range 30" with two large burners and two small. The burner arrangement is irritating. I sometimes actually need high heat from >2 burners at once. More often, the irritant is having to move pots around to get to one of the large burners. It is not a huge issue but I won't have this arrangement in my next range. (This one came with the house.) The range has been bulletproof, though. Nothing has ever failed to work exactly as it was meant to. This range is circa about 2000, I think, and I don't know if current Frigidaires are similar. |
RE: Gas Range - Simmer/Warming Burner = Useless???
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| I have a professional gas rangetop (thermador) and I too thought the simmer/warmer burner was silly. I was mistaken! On mine the other burners won't turn down as low as this one...it actually cycles on and off w/o my attention....I can keep a pot of spaghetti sauce really warm w/o it burning for a very long time. I find this extraordinarily helpful when dinner gets postponed for half and hour for some reason. OR I use it alot to simmer soups and stews all afternoon long. I have grown to love it and don't think I could do w/o it anymore. Hope this helps. |
RE: Gas Range - Simmer/Warming Burner = Useless???
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| I have had the exact experience as Annettequilts. The X-Low burner was a nice feature, but not something I sought out when shopping for my gas range. Ended up picking the Thermador for a variety of other reasons. But WOW, I LOVE that warming/extra-low burner and could not live without it now. Sure, without it I did a lot of the same things - melted chocolate in the microwave, etc... but the convenience of keeping stove-top food warm without worry, melting butter easily and effortlessly, etc... is priceless for me and the way I cook. I have 5 teenagers, so meal time is happy chaos for us :). HTH!!! |
RE: Gas Range - Simmer/Warming Burner = Useless???
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| I came here looking for this exact information. I'm looking at Hotpoint. All I want is a white, LP, self clean. I, too, got confused on the burner terms. In the olden days you bought a stove. It had 4 burners. You turned them up or down depending on how hot you wanted it. I don't cook any more so I don't need a fancy stove. And I'm old and don't need a NASA instrument panel. On. Off. That's all I need. I've found a couple that meet my criteria. I won't buy Amana. Probably don't want Maytag, Whirlpool, or Jennair. What does that leave me for under $600? The ones I've thought would be OK are running just over $500. |
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