Customer Reviews for GE - Cafe 5.4 Cu. Ft. Self-Cleaning Freestanding Gas Convection Range - Stainless steel
Customer Rating
5
hot, hot, hot!
on February 9, 2015
Posted by: Gangletech83
from Seattle, Washington, United States
Just installed the café gas range. Cooking on it is a dream. Boiling water, frying chicken, or simmering a delicate sauce, no problem with the Café range. Dinners ready, got to go.
Stove looks good. Works well. But the fan noise is too loud. We have a small open concept house and the fan comes on anytime the oven reaches 350 degrees. It is very loud and annoying. Buy another stove if you have a small open concept home.
Convection oven great for baking. Like having a second oven available. Power burner has not worked consistently since purchase. Often will not light unless turn another burner on first. Even that does not work sometimes-especially if range has not been used several days.
I researched all kinds of 30" gas ranges and this turns out to be the best within the pricepoint after speaking to a lot of sales people. I like the design of the product a lot. It is very user friendly, intuitive and simple expressing a real sense of high quality - no short cuts here obviously.
At first glance, this looks like a great range. It came with our new home and we were very excited about it. However, we noticed a faint gas smell. We had several technicians look for a leak but none was found. Only after doing our own research did we discover that there is a design flaw with this model and there are MULTIPLE complaints over the past year about this particular model emitting a moderate to strong gas smell! For the price and the company, we would have expected MUCH better. Now we're stuck with a 1.5 year old stove that is UNSAFE. That this model has not been recalled is BEYOND me.