The burners are powerful and heat evenly. We use our middle griddle often, so handy for pancakes and still have the burners available. The oven is well lit by two lights and when in convection mode it's very quite.
I bought the GE Cafe gas range in 2009. Within two years, the knob starts to crack. Right now, out of the 6 knobs, all are cracked, two are totally unusable, two are off alignment, but can still use, the other two are the least used and I rarely use them. I like the range, but hate the knobs.
I bought all four pieces of the cafe series for my kitchen in 2012. I love all my appliances and have not had a problem with any piece. The fridge is great and I love the alarm since I have a three year old who leave the door open sometimes but the alarm lets me know. I love the cook top and the convection feature on my gas over since I tend to bake multiple items at one time. The only thing negative is my cleaners while scrubbing the front of my microwave have wipes away the words under the buttons so I cannot see the words. My parents are looking to buy a new four piece set and that is what brought me back to this site!
We've had this range for several months now and are very pleased with it. We made it through thanksgiving and the turkey turned out better than in our other range. It runs quiet with the fan on, only a couple of db's louder than ambient noise level. My only wish is that they would have lit up the control panel when touched. It's a little hard to read the controls and a backlight would improve the visibility greatly. It would be nice if they had an upgrade for it.
I would not recommend this product, because it has cooling fans that come on once the oven is turned on that are extremely loud and disrupting. The fans may run up to 1 1/2 hour after the oven is turned off which is unheard of. Why purchase a quiet oven hood when you still have cooling fans within the oven to deal with?
I replaced a professional restaurant style gas stove/oven with this new GE model. This works wonderful as it has smaller burners, simmering features etc that I did not have with the other one. I converted it to LP propane use and it works wonderfully.