Thread: What am I looking for in a Stove/Oven

Hey everyone,
My wife and I are buying a new house and it needs new appliances. We are both first time home buyers so we don't have a ton of experience when it comes to this sort of thing. So the question is what makes for a good stove or oven, They are going to be seperate the oven is in-wall and the stove is a countertop stove.

Thanks
EDIT: Thanks for the replies so far, we will definitely be going with a gas range and an electric oven. Does anyone out there have any specific features that they enjoy or things along those lines 11000BTU, simmer settings things like that?

I like a gas counter-top an an electric oven. i have found gas is easier to control the heat for a cook top but not ideal for an oven. the oven i like the option of a convection oven as they tend to cook faster and thus ultimately use less electricity, and you do not have to use the convection all the time. gas ovens tend to have larger fluctuations in temperature while cooking but they average out. sometimes you do not want that especially when baking cakes and pastries, a large pizza stone or unglazed terra cotta tile in the bottom of the oven will help with that as well.

spend the cash and buy good quality and you will be enjoying them for decades. brands i have used kitchen-aid, viking and general electric.

like any tool you should consider how you will be using them. an electric counter-top like say the induction ones are easier on children but you need to use steel and/or iron pans... but the elements to not stay hot when not in use.
congratulations on the new house.

Same here, electric oven, gas range top. I don't much like electric for anything except an oven, and yes, the convection option is awesome, Things cook way faster.

I do appliance tech/repair work on the side. Stay away from anything with a computer board/digital display. They are prone to blow out in a power surge and oftentimes it will cost as much to fix as it would to replace the entire appliance. Stay away from extended warranties. Gas is safer than electric. When buying a refrigerator find one with the coils in the back, less moving parts to go bad and more energy efficient. Stay away from GE on anything., avoid Frigidaire refrigerators, notorious freon leakers, once a leaker always a leaker.

I can double the electrical warning, we have a jennair. There is a bread board that likes to blow, between us and the previous owners we've replaced it 3 times in 15 years. At 350 bucks for a knock off board.

yes if you can get ones without digital controls go for it but they are getting harder to find. bosch is another nice name... i like how quiet my dishwasher is and that is why i bought it.

Originally Posted by syslight

yes if you can get ones without digital controls go for it but they are getting harder to find. bosch is another nice name... i like how quiet my dishwasher is and that is why i bought it.

Bosch made a really nice and QUIET dishwasher. My folks got rid of theirs a short time ago and are kicking themselves for it.

The more complicated the plumbing, the easier it is to muck up the works.

Unless you are in to gourmet baking or cooking buy the simplest piece you can get. That way when it breaks you just throw it away and replace it. When the 2 grand piece breaks you're in deep.

no when the price break $7k you are in too deep... think 60+" commercial 6 burner with a flatop and salamander, duel ovens...

Our electric oven gave up the ghost about a month ago, and at 50 bucks a pop for each of the knobs, and the fact that it's a guess that it's them that's the problem, and repair men who seem to think Mount Torrens is in a fabled dark and distant land many, many fathoms away (i.e. they refuse to even come and look at it) we've decided to wait and buy a new one when we can afford it. This means cooking on an astonishing array of implements; electric fry pans, woks, BBQs of different types, etc in the meantime, and meals all named "Cindy Surprise", which seem to consist of beef mince and varying pastas mixed together with almost raw carrots and peas....

I decided what I REALLY want is a duel fuel (gas/WOOD) oven if there is such a thing. That way we can still make pineapple upside-down cakes during the zombie apocalypse...