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Create new recipes every day. This spacious Samsung range is equipped with all the tools you need to expand your culinary skills. The Guiding Light controls, reversible cast iron griddle, custom wok grate, and more, will help you bring variety to every mealtime.
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4
Powerful and Beautiful
on June 4, 2015
Posted by: mx71
Granted, we've only had this installed a few days, but I love this thing. In my past career, I was a professional chef in elite restaurants, so I have certain expectations with ranges. My house had a Wolf DF304 which I love, but then I rented that out and moved in with my fiance. She had an electric coil stove. It was doable, but that's all it was. After much research, and flat out refusal to buy a Wolf, I settled on this for dimension and BTU reasons. The burners are great. They light quickly, they're powerful, and the grates are nice and heavy. Not as heavy duty as a Wolf, but heavy enough. Half the price for a Wolf is just for the name anyway. Even at $7,000, it doesn't compare to even a low end restaurant range. We ended up getting this one at Best Buy for $1,812 out the door with sales and a coupon. The burners are more adjustable than another reviewer has mentioned, and it looks great.
Those are the pros. The three cons I've noticed thus far and why I've docked it a star are the following:
- Middle burner isn't a screamer. I let the grill portion heat up for at least 15 minutes on high and some meat barely sizzled when I applied it. It seems more like a quesadilla grill/griddle than a screaming meat griddle. I'm ok with that though as I prefer charcoal anyway.
- The LCD screen. It's gorgeous, but it's right in the line of fire for grease. It would be nice if it folded up. I worry about scratching in the future as I wipe down ranges immediately after use, and that could add to some wear.
- The top of the range is stainless. This is beautiful when clean, but it's always dirty. I'm worried about using barkeeper's on it to clean it as I assume it would scratch it. Stainless is definitely prettier, but black would have been more functional.
- The LCD screen. It's gorgeous, but it's right in the line of fire for grease. It would be nice if it folded up. I worry about scratching in the future as I wipe down ranges immediately after use, and that could add to some wear.
- The top of the range is stainless. This is beautiful when clean, but it's always dirty. I'm worried about using barkeeper's on it to clean it as I assume it would scratch it. Stainless is definitely prettier, but black would have been more functional.
Having said that, I would buy this range again. I might just be excited because I'm back to gas after almost a year of electric coil, but I would even consider replacing my Wolf with it if it came down to that.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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