Hi. I'm Steve. This is Fran. How you doing?
We're going to, rate professional ranges.
Let's get started in a specific order. Greek category.
Let's start with blue star. What are your thoughts?
Here's a company,
American owned Pennsylvania based.
It's, they, they sit for years. Twenty five thousand BTUs is
the most you're gonna get at an open burn.
Then it came out with this dual fuel range
that's sealed. It's got that eight Yep.
Eight prong kinda X eight prong burner. I like it. I I I like the range.
I like their convection feature in gas because it's that pure convection.
I love the fact that, you know,
with most of the things we're gonna, we're gonna be raiding.
You got a choice of stainless and stainless.
This one's got a thousand colors ten different trims. And
then in case that wasn't enough,
you could actually customize them a chip and they'll make it for you.
Yeah. Pretty crazy.
And the dual fuel new arranged them too where they had kind of
that traditional restaurant style open burner.
Really love the dual fuel range.
The X eight burner is really nice in and out,
burner style there as well kind of just the controls that they
built into that range too where it kinda, again,
restaurant style company now really has that seven inch full
tilt color control touch screen.
It really seems to be doing really well so far. So I like
it. I like it too.
It's funny.
They have no smart functionality before they had
even a screen that's a owe true chef, whatever want controls,
and they come out with a pretty elaborate seven inch controls. But
What are you gonna rate them?
Mercon made, I'd say an A. Yeah.
I'd definitely go with a strong A there for sure.
Next on the list. Let's go with Viking.
I don't know if you know this, but in nineteen ninety,
when they first came,
I only owed fifty six percent of the professional range markets.
And,
we we haven't sold them in quite some time.
We were the first dealer,
and we haven't sold them in quite some time. But
You know, with Viking,
you've got that that whole service thing that you gotta
worry about. And that's mostly in the refrigeration.
They've got the right leadership.
I think they they were mired for years where they came out
with it and they didn't really improve it.
Now they get the they've got the twenty three thousand B2 burner.
They've got, they get decent. Some colors.
They get seventeen Benjamin more colors.
I like the range.
Don't love it.
I think there's there's better ranges and dual fuel in all
gas. But I'd say it's a solid B. Yeah.
I'll go with the B. You know, for me,
definitely comes down to service too with a lot of
these. And that's kind of the the, I think,
the biggest thing that you have to, you know,
it's it's great up front,
but back end support and service and How, you know,
not so much just the availability of service,
but how often do you wanna have service? Yeah.
We're gonna we're gonna be saying that a lot probably
during this whole thing. How about,
how about his really interesting. How about a Mila?
So Mila's interesting too because in their pro set, you
know, really kinda a lot of different styles.
So really in that pro range look,
you get a lot of professional kind of in your face look where
me was a little bit different kind of not necessarily
contemporary, but a little kind of scaled back professional.
The really, you know, unbelievable controls, I think,
is really the biggest thing with Emilia Pro range.
Their master chef and their dual fuel that really gives you
the guided cooking to do a really phenomenal job with those controls,
cool features that some of the others don't give you like a
wireless temperature probe, steam assist,
where if you have it plumbed in, not a full steam oven,
but gives you that little bit of a steam assist.
So if you're doing breads or a casserole and wanna get a
little nice crust on the top of that,
really gives you the ability to do that.
So pretty nice professional range there. I like the, I like
the, the, they make it easy on the M touch.
Where if you wanna make bread,
they get seventeen different kinds of bread.
We we you press a button.
What I don't like about this range is it's half pro, half
not. So in the back, it's it's twelve thousand BTUs.
In the front, it's nineteen thousand five. It came out, it was good.
The controls are excellent. It's very cleanable.
You can put the,
you can put the the the racks are self cleaning. Yep.
You've put them in self cleaning. The the the top,
of the the birds you put in a dishwasher.
Strong, b, low a. What do you think? Yeah.
I'd probably go low a.
One from unique to that they have in their forty eight.
They give you a year where most have that companion of in in
their forty eight tool fuel.
You can do the speed of them with a more than one more. So sure. Sure.
Sure. We'll go.
Let's go low a. We'll go low a there. What do you think? B or a?
Well, in the comments, people say I'm not nice to.
So we'll go we'll go a Alright. Let's go.
I I'll take the win on that one.
Alright. So next, we're gonna go with Jen Air as a brand.
You you know, they they came out
I always use like the old range with the clock and everything.
Now everything is kinda wifi based.
You know, they came up with two new bold styles, rise and noah,
bowl, but they're both stainless steel.
I I don't think that's that's too bold.
It does a lot of different things.
It's a I would say it's a okay range.
Twenty thousand BTUs, and then you know,
combinations of eighteen and six.
It's got a good it's it's good that way.
The griddle is,
the griddle is, it's get the, chromium infused. Yeah.
They're chromium, tough morning. For the best feature there.
Yeah. The chromium, you can, you can slide off
I don't know. What do you think? I probably go be there.
You know,
the looks that they have with the they're kind of rising
noir. It's almost like two real extremes there.
The the rise is really that pro,
pro beefy in your face to really an extreme degree than
noir. Definitely in this market, I'd say,
doesn't really play well that really kind of contemporary style,
professional range that just hasn't seemed to really take off.
So even from an aesthetics too,
And I don't think there's really any really great
features that are so different than some of the other brands
besides that Chromium infused griddle. I'd go with a B. Okay. Good B.
Alright. Next, let's go with really kind of one of the,
or if not the most popular with the Wolf Pro range here.
Yeah. Wolf, And I we should say that for Janet. Wolf is,
American Maine, but family owned. Yeah. Actually, so is
Milo. A meal is family owned as well, but they're German.
Man, the these guys innovate well,
especially in the dual fuel side where you've got,
the Wolf Gourmet with fifty recipes.
They'll even tell you You give time temperature.
It'll give you the rack, even the rack position.
You're supposed to be around with the blower style
convection, which is really unique.
Their convection system is the best. You know, the three stage,
the three stage burner. We simmer really well in all of
them. The infrared grill,
You got a decent output on the griddle as well.
For dual fuel, I really like it. I I think it's probably
For someone looking for just a good all around range,
it's probably the best we sell. And in all gas,
I think it could be improved a little bit because they've
improved the dual fuel so much.
They haven't really you still get the the,
the better griddle and the better infrared grill.
Tool conduction. Yeah. But it, but you don't get that in, in,
in, in the gas. I'd say it's, definitely NASA dual fuel.
Yeah. No question.
I would go and ask in the dual fuel just that even that kinda
twin style different convection where you get a little bit of
deeper of in too.
So a little bit bigger than some of the others that
controls really are are great controls that, like you said,
on the on the on the partners themselves,
really kind of their claim the fame there is you can simmer on
every single burner.
You don't have to have one or two simmer burners and still
gives you great control. So I go with an s.
And and b, and they're all gas, I would think. Yeah.
It's definitely some improvements. Sure. Next monogram.
Interesting.
Brass accents, brass burners,
which is supposed to be more durable.
They've got the heston cue on their dual fuel,
which means it'll lower the temperature for you.
When you go recipe style,
twenty three thousand Btu output.
Decent griddle, infrared, infrared grill.
I, I like to do I, I like it both of them.
It's a decent price point,
and they give you what forty five hundred dollars if you buy
there a hearth oven,
but at least three if you buy two other appliances. Yeah. It's a motion.
Yeah. I I think it's I think it's a decent range.
It's a very good looking range. And it's got good, it's,
it's at a lower price than say a wolf and some of the other ones.
So from that standpoint, I really like it. What do you think? Yeah.
Definitely someone that's trying to incorporate a lot of
that wifi and as a company for short trying to incorporate
more of that wifi.
Some cool little features. Like,
even those backlit knobs with the app,
you can change to You can change the colors you want. So,
you know, switch it up a little bit every day. Yeah.
There we go. We usually like to switch an application like,
but I think it's a good solid range, good price point, good promotions.
I'd probably go within I'd probably go with an a here.
I'd go with an a too. Okay.
Fisher paykel.
I like their their from an output standpoint,
twenty three thousand Btu in the front,
eighteen thousand in the back. That's pretty powerful.
You don't get the amount of selection you do with the others.
Decent oven, decent griddle
Mhmm. Depends on the price I'd say it's, I say for me,
it's a it's a b. What do you think? Yeah.
I kind of agree that, you know, up and coming brand for sure.
I think this pro style and kind of the deeper pro range is a
little bit newer for them,
which their family to get into that where they traditionally
have always had those classic or contemporary ranges where
they were more counter depth,
but they're really starting to get into this market.
I think they're gonna continue to improve.
And I do think it's a good price point,
good promotion for people looking to enter that category there too.
Just in comparison to some of the others,
I go probably with a high v. Okay. I'd be. SKS.
Wow. This is a different range.
This range pretty much checks any box you could possibly
want. Steam oven, steam assist,
twenty three thousand BT burn, you have the induction. You have SuV
and thirty six inch. You can, you can buy Sue V induction,
the twenty three thousand Vtu burner, and
for all you Massachusetts residents, not break, make, air,
make up air statutes and just have a four hundred CFM hood.
I think that anything that LG puts their hands on in lately
maybe it's because they got out of electronics or something.
It's really been their focus. It's something that certainly,
if you don't buy now, it's certainly something to look at. I mean,
they've got pretty much any feature you could possibly want
in, in their, you know, their,
their ultra low is a hundred BTU But it doesn't flick on and
on like thermometers that stays on completely.
So it's a really good simmering range. And you've got the,
induction capability too.
Fear parts and labor warranty as well right out of the box.
They definitely stand behind their product.
But,
geez, I I really like the range.
I think it's I think it's an a certainly or or strong b. Yeah.
What do you think?
It's definitely unique,
probably the most unique out there for sure.
I think it's good performance.
It's pretty good reliability from us as well.
I'd go with an a there.
The only thing is is like,
you almost wanna talk to market research. They have Suvy,
but they don't have a grill. It's kind of unusual. Yeah.
A little different. I I prefer people going with a a griddle.
And then if you're gonna do a grill,
then then promptly or just get a grill outside.
That's I think we're all that.
Smoke should go, but whatever. So next is Bernazoni.
The Italian style range is where you are often opinionated here.
Well, I sold them, you know,
for years, and I haven't for a while. So let's be fair.
First of all, in terms of style, beautiful knobs, colors, they,
they execute color and style as well,
if not better than anybody, I think.
But the problem is if you're buying a pro range,
you're only getting, depending on the size,
one or two pro burgers at nineteen,
and then you get one at ten, and then it drops to, like,
similar burners four and three.
I,
the, the performance of a, the boiler is on a gas, it's
ten thousand btu straight,
whereas everybody else is pretty much infrared at fifteen
to twenty three thousand.
I just I I just don't like the functionality.
I don't like the repairability.
That's why we don't sell it, although we have call for it. I
I just Be quite frank. I think, you know,
if you're looking for price point and style or if you're
looking to flip a house, something good,
absolutely something you should consider.
Something that you're gonna use for your house
what's the word I'm looking for here? Don't.
I would say, and this is a, this is a c for me. Yeah. Even
if not worse. Not really even a pro range per se, you know,
low b to use, not a lot of power there,
not a lot of capacity in the oven itself.
You know, service all those things,
I would definitely go with the same. Yeah.
But it's funny when you do a Google search on some blog sites,
it shows up one. Yeah.
It's crazy. You know, people buy it.
And then what happens after that? It's just, you know,
just be mindful of what you're getting.
Tharmadors next.
Great. The star burner, they say, you know,
spreads the burners like blue star. They spread the burners.
I I think pan I think burner hits pan, pan cooks food.
But that said, what they did was they raised it.
So you can actually clean under it instead of like,
scrubbing a seal burner. I like that.
I like a lot of the different functions.
You get a steam pump with a warming drawer. You get
induction. Comes in two different styles.
If you want a little deeper, with a more capacity,
you can get the grand,
or if you want it more matching with your counters,
you can get the harmony.
So it does that.
And, you know, with all gas and dual fuel,
there's not much differentiation.
So you get all gas and self cleaning and a lot of different
features you're not gonna get with other brands.
So I would say this is a, for me, but again, you know,
when you talk about thermo or the oven, single convection,
basic in that regard,
So you're not going to get any outstanding oven functionality.
You do get their home connect WiFi app, which is decent.
This is, for me, their strong beer away.
I'd probably go a just overall, I think, from,
the burner performance is definitely much stronger than
the oven performs for short, not even performance,
but just features, single convection, like you said,
but up to twenty two thousand BTUs in their program.
This low sim are really kind of one of the lowest simmers
you'll find with that on off extra low. Unique options, like you said,
with the steam oven induction capabilities on the top with
with, some models.
Really kinda, I think, good promotion, good price point,
good value as with their one, two, three. So overall,
I'd give them an an a, but I do think, you know,
definitely in that oven. Nick,
I've kind of improved that a little bit. Yeah.
Prove the oven. Yes. It's it's it's solid. Yeah. But I
like wolf better for product to product.
Yeah. But So next is kind of maybe a lesser known name, but,
an up in coming maybe. We'll say Thor.
So we're starting to hear that a little bit more.
What are your thoughts on Thor?
You know,
there's there's a lot of products coming out of China,
and and not all of them are back.
We went to trade show this year, and it's like,
there's so many different brands I've never heard of,
and they're all pretty much Chinese based.
Again, you know, when you look at it,
it's a decent looking range. It looks like a pro range,
but you're only getting, you know,
you're not getting much in terms of pro range output And
and I worry about
the fit and finish of this.
We sold a brand called NXR originally, and it was like,
Yeah. It had pro burning capabilities,
but it was just You just gotta be mindful.
You know, a lot of people,
you're gonna buy a pro range at half or even less. So
that's a positive. However,
in terms of performance, I I doubt it kind of.
So I'd say it's it's
low b, c, low b for price, c probably for price.
Yeah. C. And, you know,
definitely hasn't been out in the market long,
so we performance part of it, how it holds up over time,
you know, who's gonna service it. So I'm not really sure there.
I would definitely go with the c. Okay. Alright. Couple more. Heston.
Love the company,
California based, very culinary focused,
thirty thousand beetroots.
You ever Did you ever turn that thing off of that split?
That thing is pretty incredible. It's like a bonfire.
It's like and the burner was like, Oh, it's pretty intense.
It it's not like this little thing that comes out.
It was like this column of fire. It came on.
It was intense for sure.
Don't go anywhere near that without a pot on it. For sure.
They have that pure pure vection, that reversed,
reverses to keep an even temperature, you know, the,
the guy from French laundry swears by it.
The problem I have, and it, and it's got colors against decent.
What I have with it is that control on the dual fuel,
right, on that On the handle?
It's a soft control on the handle.
Kind of unusual. Yeah. It's still small too. Small in the
new. Yeah. In the new moving out.
And it's a lot deeper.
And the handle style I thought was It's very in your face.
Yes. Gold.
Yeah. But American based, let's give them their due. I mean,
they they put this thing out
within a few years, I think it's an upcoming brand,
but I I'd say it's it's a bee.
If you're looking for a hot burger, though, So this,
and then Wolf in a, in a, in a range top,
Wolf's got thirty five thousand, but it's just, but,
you know, when you go to those, really outstanding hoppers.
That's all you get. You don't get, like, on a booster,
it's twenty five, but it's fifteen behind.
You don't get that with a thirty or thirty fives,
you that's what you get. Yeah. So I'd it's a strong beat,
what do you think? I'll go with b. Finally, lock her new.
Well, how can it not be an s only because basically you
design it? Like, if you want induction if you want Tapanaki, if you want,
French top, if you want, induction, yeah,
they can do it for you. And it's got the,
it's got that arched convection. So it's not There's
no fans. So it's it keeps a natural heat.
So your food comes out better.
The colors are just beautiful. I mean, they execute color.
It's it's like a work of art.
That truly. And, that said though, it's forty to forty
thousand minimum. In minimum. Yeah.
So,
If when you throw, you know, from a feature standpoint,
how can it not be best?
It gives you everything you could possibly want.
But from a price standpoint, it's a C.
So I'd say it's a you know,
for someone that's really looking for, you know, a work
of art, an heirloom,
something that you're gonna pass on,
there's nothing better, but the price
I mean,
you could buy several kitchens for the price of that range.
I'd say it's a strong. It's a For features,
it's an s for prices to see. So we'll call it an a. Yeah.
Definitely an a. I mean, from a unique Yeah. Perspective,
nothing beats it. It's you know, truly one of the,
if not the most beautiful professional range that's out
there, you're customizing it.
You're making every single one is completely custom, like,
truly an unbelievable range. But, yeah,
it's not your everyday range.
It's an ex very expensive price point. So, you know,
that's not the everyday customer that's coming in
looking for that for sure.
Would go with an a? I mean, but truly an unbelievable range.
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