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Very Pleased I wanted to go to gas cooking in our otherwise electric home, which in my rural area means propane. I selected this range based on known reliability, not the burner output ratings with propane. If you will be using propane, know that burner calculated BTU ratings will be less with propane than with natural gas, and the amount of drop varies among makers. (You can find the figures on a plaque on the ranges but rarely on maker websites.) GE is NOT the big winner in published BTU drop. But I figured that I would be okay with a range having a power burner. I was sort of right. Under propane, the power burner is really not showing apparent great power with the pans I use. It's fine, just not super power. I would say it's a little slower to boil water than the electric was. However, all that is, for me, compensated by the great control with gas. And it's not a wimpy burner at all. I haven't done a lot of experimentation, but I suspect my encapsulated bottom pans might do better on an electric burner, while a plain bottom might be ideal for rapid professional type pan work on gas.
On the other hand, the oven is very fast to preheat and more even than my old electric oven, which is nice. Unless the food is pretty close to the door, you're not going to see it easily through the smallish window. At least at 6"3" I can't. I had heard that gas was a superior heat for baking. At least with bread, the artisan baguettes I bake three times a week, it's been true. I think it's a moister heat, which produces a good crust. (I have no use for convection ovens, which I take to be gimmicks and costly.)
After reading about many difficulties with black tops, I wanted a SS top. It's nice, but remember that stainless steel is soft, and use nothing abrasive. This model has a finely brushed steel finish, and abrasives can easily leave a marked area. Clean up promptly. We have a largely stainless steel kitchen, and this range has a very impressive presence. I would say it looks "massive." The propane crew encountered no problems doing the conversion and told me GE is among the easier conversions.
Note to new propane users: Many gas supply line sets come with a flare fitting adapter for one end and a combination flare fitting adapter/safety device for the other. This device, which is intended to shut down if something gives way on the stove side of the valve, is apparently designed for natural gas. Propane runs at migher pressure and therefore higher volume, and the safety thought it was seeing a broken line and was trying to shut down, which looked to the leak test instrument like a slow leak, since it was almost competely shut down but still filling the range lines. We had to replace with a plain fitting to get a good leak test.
I can say nothing bad about this range. I knew about the propane power drop. I was told my the experienced propane crew that they knew this model to sometimes warp the door in the high heat of self cleaning, preventing opening. I cannot say or say if that it still valid. I don't use self-clean.
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