Help with new range selection. PLEASE!!!

[ilovepcot]

We're "attempting" to update our kitchen...circa 1922!!! Stainless steel and really slick modern stuff looks strange in here, or at least I'm picturing that it would.

Anyway, we 've discovered that a wall can be ripped out, new wall rebuilt and several other revovations done at BIG cost to accommodate a new and better fridge. There are several DH and I both like and I'm certain we'll make a selection without tears and hair pulling.

NOT SO FOR THE STOVE!!! The terms confuse me. I don't understand what most of the description means. One thing we want to carefully consider is to choose an appliance that will *appeal* to new buyers. (We only plan to keep this home another 3-4 years.) I like the new gas stoves I'm seeing but wonder if that's a turn off to many others? Do most prefer the ceramic tops? Are there special features that are "must haves"?

Hope some of you will take pity on an ill informed old lady and point her in the right direction. Please!!!!

 

[lclark0621]

How much do you want to spend?

We are building a new house & just picked all of our appliances. After a lot of looking & planning we went with a Viking double oven with a 36 inch cermanic Viking cook top.

Personally I like the ease of a cermanic cook top. DH would have preferred gas, but we both did not want to put in propane (no gas where we are building).

We had discussed doing a full range (cooktop & oven are one unit), but we both agreed that the double wall oven & seperate cooktop are much more appealing to us.

We looked at a lot of different brands & were happiest with the Viking.

 

[Linda/MA]

If you want to stick with a mid-priced range, not commercial style, I have a Maytag Gemini and really like it. It has two ovens and the smaller one is also a toaster. Mine is electric with a ceramic top, but if I could have gas (we don't have natural gas on my street), I would definitely go with it. It is so much better to cook with than electric. Oh, and my bottom oven is also convection, which means, for example, you can bake three sheets of cookies at once instead of one at a time. That's a great feature too.

 

[hlbtimes2]

I would love to have a gas stove. However, it was going to cost too much to have the gas lines ran to that part of our house. So, I went with the smooth ceramic top. I love it. I like that there are no burner pans to keep clean. People worry about staining, but its not something I've had a problem with (and I'm not a great house keeper). I actually have had two. One white and one stainless/black. The stainless with the black top is easier to keep clean and stain free. The white took a little more work.

 

[brerrabbit]

We wanted a new stove but were limited to the 30 inch opening the original one fit into. I cook a lot and really wanted gas but my wife hated the fact that a cheap gas oven can never be calibrated right and hold a temp. We found a GE model that is gas top and eletric oven. We however went for a GE with gas top and gas oven that has the larger oven on top with convection cooking and a smaller oven on bottom that you can warm, bake, or broil in. I love my new stove! We had seen one with the smaller oven on top but as the saleslady pointed out wouldn't you want the larger one on top because it would be the one you cook larger heavier items in? Made sense.

 

[720L]

I think a separate cooktop and oven look nicer if you have the space to do it. I love my Jenn Air ceramic cooktop and Jenn Air wall oven. We also have a JennAir microwave that can also cook like a real oven. So I kind of have dual ovens!

 

[doxdogy]

The link below is to the one that I purchased from Sears. I have had it for about a month and so far I am happy with it. The oven is combination of standard and convection.

sears

 

[ilovepcot]

I've been *very carefully* reading all the info you guys are providing and running back and forth to many sites to look at these things. Already learning a lot! Please keep ideas coming!!!