Vanity: Gas range that isn't a piece of junk

[Nellie Wilkerson]

Look for a vintage gas range in a vintage travel trailer. They are usually small, three burner, small oven, with NO electronics. Many were hardly used by the trailer owners

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

http://www.vikingrange.com/consumer/product/products/cooking/freestanding-ranges/viking-professional-5-series-ranges/open-burner-gas-ranges-—vgic/30—open-burner-gas-range-—vgic5301#product-overview

[1066AD]

Aga.

[KevinB]

Bought a Samsung, the one rated #1 by Consumer Reports.

I'm glad you're pleased with your Samsung. One must be careful these days buying appliances or any other items having potential environmental impacts based on ratings from Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports has become very politically correct and will often rate inferior products very highly simply because they have minimal environmental impact. It's often more advisable to rely on the consumer reviews of the products rather than the CR reviews.

[datura]

I’ve got a GE that I run on propane for the last 4 years. Not a single problem.

I think your problem isn’t the stove, but the quality of signal your AC input has. You might consider an inline AC power supply for your whole home, to clean up the signal quality. Otherwise, try getting an old school propane stove without the computerized bullshit. So many circuits in your stove are timing dependent, and just a small frequency fluctuation can trip alarms.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Here's one.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Go find a "off the grid" propane stove with a battery start ignition.

That way you do not have a bunch of electronics and you do not have a pilot light using up your gas.

They are not that cheap but they are not sky high either. Look for a scratch and dent model to save a bit.

[dhs12345]

Maytag. Lol. What a joke.

[762X51]

Blue Star.

[mountainlion]

Keep an outdoor barbecue for emergency use and some even have an oven. Salvation army might have an older one that is more reliable. Maybe someone in your neighborhood has a used one left over when they “upgraded”.

[chrisser]

Being that I’ve been inside this thing multiple times, it’s basically a big stamped metal box with some insulation, burners and a few controls.

The stove burners work fine.

I wonder if it’s possible to buy just an old-fashioned oven burner assembly and gas valve and retrofit it into the box. They can’t be all that different - all of them have similar dimensions.

[Romans Nine]

Buy a used commercial such as an Imperial.

I bought my wife one used off craigslist for $800.
Bought the kit to convert from natural gas to LP.
Been using it for 8 years.
Tough as nails, nothing but propane needed.
6 burners capable of 33,000 btu. Most residential cook tops are 15-18,000

We will never have anything else.

We live in a house designed to be “off the grid” on 20 acres in the middle of the woods. Wood heat that we can use to cook if without propane.

We have a thousand gallon propane tank just for our stove and a ventless heater if we need to heat while we are gone for a long period of time.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We've got,a five year old GE Profile dual-fuel range (gas top / electric oven). It's worked flawlessly.

But don't get me started on our GE Profile French door refrigerator. What a piece of junk.

You can buy completely restored vintage gas ranges. All the hand labor makes them expensive, but no electronics!

Take a look at Antique Gas Stoves for an example. They are gorgeous.

[BobL]

Buy a couple of these and tell Big Gas to shove it:

http://www.iwatani.com/cp/stoves/35fw/

And at 15,000 BTU, it’s as powerful as the crap you’re looking at.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

https://ordering.fwwebb.com/woitem/558538*1

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

https://ordering.fwwebb.com/woitem/558512

[Yo-Yo]

This oven is basically the same as our 22 year old GE Profile, minus the drip pans under the burners, the heavier cast-iron cooking grates, fluorescent night light, and a third oven rack.

https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/JGB635DEKWW

If you're electronic-adverse, GE has an even more basic version of this oven with no electronic oven controls, but ironically costs more than the above oven:

https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/JGB450DEKWW

[kalee]

Following. I am looking for a propane stove for our new house.

[Dr. Sivana]

To be perfectly blunt about it, there’s a huge market crying out for the solid quality and simplicity of the products of yesteryear.

Refrigerators (Freon)
Washers (Safety on the old Maytag wringer washers, water usage on the ones newer)
Dryers (Genetral energy efficiency)
Dishwashers (Both water usage and overall energy efficiency)

Have regulated these out of existence (should mention toilets and full house air conditioners, too).

For a washing machine, if you can afford one try to get a commercial top loader Speed Queen. The latest regulations don't affect commercial units just yet. They are designed to not break down often and to be simple to operate and service. That's why laundromats use them.

[Retired Chemist]

My sister had nothing but problems with washers with all the fancy electronics and finally ended up buying a basic washer without all the fancy stuff. One of the fancy ones she had would turn on by itself.