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Natural Gas Range: Styles and Sizes
Natural Gas Range: Styles and Sizes
Cooking professionals suggest gas cooking for its responsiveness. The gas burners visible flame
and the ovens reliable baking results make gas ranges a popular choice. When shopping, look for
a gas stove with a sealed top for easy cleaning and a tight grid over all the burners. This type of
grid keeps pans from tipping over when you move them around on the stove. And, for best results,
look for a professional-style stove top with high BTU output.
Conventional
Commercial range
Comes with high-output burners, over-sized
ovens and a wide selection of options. Must
be properly vented.
Double oven
Drop-in
30-inch widths.
Slide-in
Oven
Ovens certified by the American Gas
Association (AGA) must have an automatic
ignition system (pilotless electronic or
Range features
Broiler
The broiler on your gas range may be
located in a separate compartment below the
oven, in the oven itself, or at eye-level and
can be conventional or infrared. In
conventional broilers, foods cook by
exposure to direct heat from the gas flame.
Automatic cleaning
Continuous-cleaning (catalytic): Mixes
catalytic materials into the porcelain enamel
coating of the oven walls or liner panels.
Most soil oxidizes when the oven is operated
at normal baking and broiling temperatures.
The higher the temperature, the faster the
stains are removed.
Self-cleaning (pyrolytic): The oven cleans
during a separate high heat cycle (85F to
1,000F). Reduces oven soil to white ash
which you later remove with a damp cloth.
Exterior finishes
Low-heat burners
High-speed burners
Provide about 30 percent more Btus for
quantity cooking or quick boiling.
Sealed burners
Keep spills from leaking below the
cooktop surface.
Down-draft cooktops
A down-draft ventilating fan is built into a
cooking surface and vented outdoors
through a sidewall. Most cooktops of this
design have optional modules such as a
rotisserie, griddle or an extra set of burners.
Griddles
A griddle is a large cooking surface,
generally made of aluminum, for use on the
cooktop. It may be a separate portable unit
which fits over one or two burners, or built
in with its own burner.
NEVER use oven cleaners on a selfcleaning oven. With high heat, even
a slight residue of cleaner may etch
the porcelain finish.
Keeping your
broiler clean
safety standards.
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