There is no one best 36-inch
professional dual fuel range for every feature.
The Range you should purchase should match your
unique cooking style, whether it's baking, broiling, grilling, roasting or griddling.
In this video, you'll learn the best features and the problems from the best
brands like Wolf, Thermador, Miele, Hestan, SKS and JennAir.
You'll also learn reliability based on thirty seven thousand sixty one service
calls or service department logged just last year.
First, let's talk about Dual fuel versus All-gas.
In a 36 inch, they look the same,
yet are almost completely two different stoves.
We actually cover All-gas another video.
Let's compare briefly and then look at the ranges.
Dual fuel is automatically considered
better than All-gas when you walk in a store, yet you don't have a clear
picture as to why for the 2,000 dollar up charge.
So electric is better for baking because of its dryer heat.
Self-cleaning is also a standard
for electric is only offered a few all-gas models.
Gas, however, is moisture for better roasting.
Also, infrared is better than gas, and way better than electric for broiling.
Many brands offer upgrades in their dual fuel like enhanced burners,
want to have controls and other unique features like sous vide. However
if you like baking and added features than
dual fuel may be better. If you like to broil or roast then consider all-gas.
Wolf will be all new when you buy one this
fall with brand new controls, oven, Wi-Fi functionality and a touch screen.
The burner's max twenty thousand BTU on two burners.
The Grill and grill are both
infrared gas. Wolf will move away from the dual convection to their
Verticross blower convection in their wall ovens. Blower's deliver more air than fans.
You have more room in the back of the range without the fans as well.
Also, you have their Wolf or gourmet
settings with 50 preprogram selections for foods.
You can also put the food, weight and how you like it cooked,
the range calculates time, temperature and even rank position.
Hard to know if it's not on the market yet.
Availability is a concern.
Hopefully their Wi-Fi will be better than others.
At first glance, it doesn't have the recipe tie-ins of a Thermador or JennAir.
Their output is good, but no longer the best.
Hestan is an interesting new range.
It's adapted from the commercial range lineup there from Sonoma, California,
and are the only range on this list with 12 different colors. Their
fibers have a 30,000 BTU sealed burner,
along with two twenty three thousand BTU burners and two fifteen thousand BTU.
You have actual temperature controls
on the grill rather than just one or two settings
like other brands. The controls are unique as well.
Even the name Marquise is different.
The handle houses the controls and they move in a left to right swipe function like
your phone. The pure convection of a single convection.
It changes time and temperature to maintain even heat.
With all the names aside, Hestan has solid handles and knobs
that are diecast metal. The igniters or brass and more solid than the others.
With a new brand, you have to worry about
service reliability. Specifically, where do you go to when you have a problem?
Hestan may have good output,
but does not have a grill option or a Wi-Fi experience.
SKS, an interesting range with some unique
features. Sous vide precision boiling in a bag is an SKS exclusive.
The combination of induction Sous Vide and professional burner's is the only
range to comply with Massachusetts make-up air requirements.
They also offer four burners with induction and four burners with chromium griddle.
The burners of twenty three and fifteen thousand with eighteen and fifteen thousand
BTU with induction sous vide. At six point three cubic foot, SKS
is the largest oven steam assist or combi steam capability.
You can cook a meal in steam exclusivel or
combi or just burst of steam to bake bread in the steam assist.
I'd like to see the steam oven work.
It's like Miele and performance SKS
it's well worth considering.
However, if it does not and performs like rival Samsung in their cooking products,
then it will be an issue. Their Wi-Fi experience also is just basic.
Miele has the best controls with their MasterChef you set the food
in the specific doneness in the range, calculates the time and temperature. Miele's
grill and griddle are infrared with better output Wolf.
They also have steam functionality to caramelize meats or bake bread.
In fact, you have 15 automatic programs just for the different types of breads.
It's very cleanable range, both the grates and burner caps or dishwasher safe.
You can self-closing the racks as well.
Miele is a combination of high output and
low output burner's 1/2 or ninety thousand five hundred,
the other two at thirteen six and twelve thousand five hundred.
There, output is a bit light versus their
competition with half pro burners and half regular.
Their controls are the most intuitive until the new Wolf debuts.
But how can the most advanced company not have a Wi-Fi experience?
Thermador division of the German Bosch
company known for cooking. Their profession, ranges feature their star
shaped burner the lowest simmer and Wi-Fi. They offer two different ranges,
they offer their premium Pro Grand and their less expensive Pro Harmony.
Pro Grand has a clock,
one higher output burner than Harmony
at twenty two thousand and a proof mode in the oven. It's larger will fit
a commercial sheet pan due to three inches of added depth.
This series is available with an induction set of burners as well.
The Pro Harmony is less expensive and more
popular because it's twenty four inch depth is in line with your cabinets.
It doesn't protrude into your kitchen.
Thermador has a decent all around burner. The Thermador star burner or tops out
at eighteen thousand BTU on the Harmony and twenty two thousand in the Pro Grand.
There are two burners capable extra long simmering, and the raised
pedestal style also offers easier cleanup than other round burners.
Wi-Fi allows you to start, pause and abort oven programs remotely,
along with recipe tie ins via their Home Connect app
on your mobile device. Thermador has a rebate program with free
dishwashers and hoods with qualifying purchases.
However, the grill and griddle or electric,
how many outside electric grills are there on the market?
Almost none
because gas is greater output, and is more easily controlled. Thermador
improve the wi fi, but it's still a single convection of it.
They also lowered half of the burners
from eighteen to fiftteen thousand BTU in the back of the range.
JennAir now has two new different series, the rise and noir.
They offer an easy to clean chromium infused griddle and and infrared grill
at twenty thousand BTU max output. The updated
jennAir app offers voice command
and enhanced culinary center showing you doneness before you cook. Its wi fi enabled
and allows you to cook with other cooking apps.
Availability has made it almost impossible to buy a whole JennAir Pro Kitchen.
The Wi-Fi experience is robust, yet rated poorly in the app stores.
The average appliances,
thirteen point four percent, so all these brands are higher,
with Wolf being the best premium products have more service.
As a general rule, it's not just service, but education and adjustment as well.
It depends on how you cook Miele has the most cooking functionality
and is the easiest to clean with steam capability, JennAir is a beautiful range
with good overall features at a good price.
Thermador has excellent burner's, especially with the simmer.
Hestan has some great features, along with the highest output make sure
can be fixed in an area. SKS has some unique combinations
with induction sous vide and steam functionality in
the oven. The big unknown is Wolf.
It's probably one of the best all around ranges
before the improvement. Their gourmet series will improve it
considerably, as will the new convection system already in the oven.
But do you wait? Reliability,
especially education of appliance service, is a fact
when buying any of these ranges. You should
consider the brand with the best service in your area.
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