My new Induction Range arrived and replaced the 25+ year old failing Jenn Air with its 2 speed burners with: "intent to cook" and "Sahara"settings! Its a beauty, black stainless steel. Wow does the oven work!  I like the large cooking zone for my big pots. The small burner will hold melted chocolate easy. The oven has a ton of nice features, like keep warm, bread proofing, fermenting, yogurt making, and there is a warming drawer at the bottom! Most of all what attracted me were the knob controls for the burners, I hate those little buttons with numbers you count! Give me a dial, and these dials are like gas cooktops, you push in to turn BUT you can turn them in either direction! Bonus they are marked with cooking speeds- like simmer , low medium , high! Who the hell knows what 3, or 6, or 9 means !! I'm set to hunker down with a Quarantini and cook up a storm these next few weeks.

But I think it has been engineered with someone like you Mike in mind. They give the IC rating  and talk about people with heart implants. 

Do Not Keep Pet Birds in the Kitchen!

Do not dry newspaper in the oven!

Do not store clothing on top of the range!

Do not climb into the oven!

I think those are all sensible don't you?

It has a very sensitive feedback mechanism and so unfortunately will not accept my vintage waterless cookware which works fine on my Kenmore Induction and my Miele Induction. But I can work around that.

We have to Kraut it UP !

Wow Congratulations on your new range, I totally agree that cook-tops should use knobs instead of tedious touch controls.

Jeff and I specked a SS induction range for our cousin David & Kim when they redid their house in Chevy Chase two years ago, I am surprised that you did not order the dual oven feature where there is a divider that slides in the oven, I liked that feature almost as much as the blue lights around the burners.

We were discussing adding the blue lights to induction CTs 30 years ago, I even suggested that you should be able to switch them from blue to red for users that are more comfortable cooking on electric, red would also be safer around children as red is assoated with heat.

Let us know what you cook up, [ remember your diet, LOL ]

John L.

Your new range is beautiful.  Is that a Wear Ever Chicken Fryer on the stove top?  I had one years ago!!  I didn't realize there was an issue with people with pacemakers.  I love the feature with the lights and those big knobs--very manly.  :)

I have a Samsung oven with the divider and love it.  I just used it yesterday.  I was using convection in the top and regular heat in the bottom.  Very cool feature.

Yeah I was on the fence about the double oven but I can see its use.  But Raph how do you cook a 20 pound turkey? Does the divider come out? 
I have a double oven Thermadore set sitting in the basement that I still intend to use so I didnt make this a priority. Boy that oven heats FAST! 

Ralph,  that is not a chicken fryer but it will fry chicken under pressure! That is my 35+ year old Pro Selections Super Cooker ( no longer made by FAGOR ) Love that thing I use it almost every week. 

Yes it comes out so you use it as one big oven or two small ones.  It's very flexible.  I use it more as one oven than I do as two but it is nice to have.  Hubby hated the toaster oven on the counter so I use the divider and heat half the oven when I would normally use the toaster oven.  When you slide out the divider the screen changes to show its one oven.

I had one that looked exactly like that and it was a chicken fryer under pressure.  Made the BEST fried chicken.  I'm not sure whatever happened to it.

As far as the temps are concerned, so far so good.  There a limitations to what you can do at the same time.  For example, I can convection in the top and bottom at the same time but I can't do radiant heat in both.  I can do convection at the top only with radiant on the bottom.  The heating element in the lower oven is hidden.  I can only use Steam as a total oven but not the top or bottom.  I have not found a scenario yet where the combinations haven't worked for what I do.

I don't think you can leave the divider in while self cleaning but mine hasn't been dirty enough to worry about it.  I tend to wipe up spills as they happen and while it's hot.  The only issue I have is the window not getting clean.  I have to try some oven cleaner on that.  In one picture you can see where I was cooking two things at once and the other you can see the window.  I hate that and will try come oven cleaner when I think to buy it.

If you like to bake you will love this oven.  This is a picture proofing Pandesol.  I use the bread proofing all the time for bread, pizza, etc.

drawer is a warming drawer too. Nice feature for warm plates.

I was looking at this griddle its pure cast iron. Take a gander --

Generally does not need to be all that flat, A lot of my pans are old and warped and they cook just as well, I can actually raise one side of a pan over 1/2" off the cooktop and it still boils just as fast on the raised side that is not touching the glass.

The thing you need to be careful about is there is an overheat sensor under the center of the cooking area and if the pan is not in pretty good contact you can overheat the pan more easily if you boil it dry.

John 

Photo #1, flat on CT, #2 raised 3/8" at 12 o'clock, #3 whole pan on a sheet of 1/4" thick pyroceram glass.

If I were going with electric I'd take that range too.  I'm also hesitant with SS branded things since the Maytag/Samsung Neptune fiasco but that's certainly a nice range.  My house isn't wired for electric range and there really isn't a spare slot in the fuse box so I'll stick with the Duxtop portable cooktop unless I'm doing a large meal and then I'll use the 5 gas burners.  My dream kitchen will have two stoves...gas on one side and induction on the other.

Hi Tom, Don't forget that Kelvinator Electric ranges also had timed surface elements, I just worked on a 1971 40"one the other week.

Samsung Reliability ?

This is a big question, We have found that there is not as much difference in reliability of cooking appliances, I generally tell my customers to uy pretty much any Gas or Electric CT they like as there is not that much difference and most never get repaired anyway.

It becomes a little less clear with a range, GEs build quality is still a lot better than any other other domestic range and SS is very poor about suppling parts after a few years so who knows whether this will be a great choice.

One thing I will do in life is to buy performance over reliability whether in an automobile or appliances, That is why I will never have a SQ TL washer or a Maytag DC washer in my personal laundry the Mts can live in the museum, after all appliances and cars can be repaired once in a while.

John L.

Since my new Range hemorrhaged on most of my vintage cookware that left me with 3 pots. Not enough if you are a serious cook. One of the things jettisoned was my clam steamer after 40 years! On Ole Cape Cod that is a MUST!! 

So off shopping I went , saw nice stuff at IKEA , ungodly nice stuff at All Clad made of pure Unobtanium , Calphalon has nice stuff too.   But noodling ebay I found this baby! I got wind because as you saw above Im still using my 35+ year old Fagor pressure cooker and found out Fagor America and Spain have closed their doors. So their cookers will be on fire sale. Such high quality I never worry about durability, in 35 years I have only replaced a gasket once! And I found out too a little secret, it seems Fagor was not a manufacturer, their cookers seem to turn up in the Magefesa line sold at Macy's and BBB. It seems to me that Fagor was a rebranded Magefesa. So with that in mind I found this cooker/steamer for the ridiculous price of $36! And because so many of  you are terrified of pressure cookers it is brand spanking new. 

I'm testing my theory as I just purchased a new gasket for my 35+ cooker from Magefesa, lets see if it fits when it arrives. My bet is it will fit. I will post when I get it. 

My 35+ Fagor super cooker humming along side the new Fagor Steamer. 

I don't know if this unit has timed burners, I will dig out the manual again and peruse. My Miele did but it was difficult to program I never got it quite right.

FOUND SLAPPED AND DAZED in a garden in BRISBANE !!!