Customer Reviews for GE - Cafe 5.4 Cu. Ft. Self-Cleaning Freestanding Dual Fuel Convection Range - Stainless/Stainless look
Customer Rating
5
Wonderful
on August 21, 2012
Posted by: William322
from Southfield, MI.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I love my new GE Double Oven C2S985SETSS Duel Fuel. It is wonderful. I just wish that after it was installed that a GE Tech could come and check it all out.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] 2 months in on this model and we really like it. everything is working well and even with lots of gas flowing (griddle, both front and one rear eye boiling and braising and sauté simultaneously) and the oven on, everything came out great. haven't used the lower baking drawer too much yet, but will soon enough...
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We like the features of this range, but the stainless steel is very soft. Scratched within the first week or normal use.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I love my new range. The reasons I didn't give it a 5-star, 1-the front panel should light up. The options can not be read without direct light. 2- the bottom drawer takes to long to preheat. Other than these 2 reasons, it is excellent. The dual energy is unmatched.
My wife and I purchased this range in January 2011 and have now owned it for 17 months. We both love this range. My wife uses the bottom oven to keep foods warm when we have a number of guests. The burners have a wide range of adjustment. The small burner is excellent for maintaining gravies or keeping chocolate "just melted!" The top is easy enough to clean. Once we let something boil over causing debris to gather around the burner. I used a needle to clean the small hole that that stopped up causing to burner to ignite too slowly. That was our fault and was easily corrected. The convection oven works wonderfully. Baked goods and turkeys look magazine picture perfect! The best kitchen product we have ever had. It has given us great satisfaction.
Great Range April 22, 2012 Customer avatar Carol17 from Ojai, CA Age:45-54 I have used this product for:1-3 months Why I chose this product:Online Research Performance 5 / 5
I was wary about buying this range as it had some very negative reviews about the noisy convection fan and some other problems. However, I had previously had a GE range and loved it, and this range really fit our needs, so we took the plunge and, so far, I am very happy we did.
It roasts beautifully using the convection roast feature. Cookies have come out great as well using the convection bake. The regular oven, without using convection has also done very well. There is absolutely no loud noise when using the convection fan. It is extremely quiet. The stove top works great, the power boil is excellent and the varied levels of flame are as well.
The only negative issue I had previously read about, that I also have noticed, is that the burner knobs get hot when using the oven. That is something I do think GE should work on. If you had little kids I think this might be a concern. Other than that, we love this range.
Great choice if your want two ovens in small slide in space
on April 13, 2012
Posted by: ACKARK
from Nantucket, MA, USA
Chose this because it had professional cook top combines with two ovens in a small slide in space. We lIke this range so far but the instruction DVD was so poor as to laughable. GE would be better off skipping the cost of this and having customers just make YouTube instruction videos.
We bought this range, the convection microwave and the 980RSS dishwasher for our newly renovated kitchen. A dual fuel range sounded strange at first but we decided it is really the best of both - a gas cook top, which we wanted to replace our old drop in electric range, but we didn't want a gas oven. Buying a separate cook top and oven would have been out of our price range and would not fit in our kitchen without major remodeling. This solved the problem. It has everything. I have used the griddle with the middle oval burner for hamburgers and grilled cheese, and it does a perfect job, way better than a frying pan. Cooking with gas is so much smoother and controlled than electric burners. The convection oven works beautifully too. We did baked salmon and it came out perfect. The range looks great in our 1950s modern house and is extremely easy to clean. Until now I didn't cook much, but now it is fun and I plan to learn some more recipes and get busy with it. The combination of the range and the convection microwave is great, and with the lower oven, we have three ovens, large, medium and small, as well as full featured microwave. Also the griddle does not generate as much smoke as using a frying pan with our electric stove, and it is cleared efficiently by the microwave built in vent fan, so does not set off the smoke alarm. Over all, we are delighted with our new kitchen. One thing about price - once you decide what you want, check ALL the appliance stores as well as the big box stores, as the prices vary a lot for the same appliance, way more than we expected, and we got the best price at a place we did not expect to.