Product review (2 stars): In sum - A bulimic girl with huge breast implants
During a kitchen remodel we  bought this GE Cafe to replace our 30 year-old Thermador (which was wonderful).  Each grate on the GE Cafe cook top, of which there are three, weighs approximately 600 pounds.  We're talking Panzer tank sturdy here.  However, it's taking longer to bring water to a boil.  Why?  Because, for no discernible reason, save looks, the grates are way higher from the flame  than they ought be.  As a result, 50% of the heat is absorbed by them before it gets to your bottom.

It's impossible to bring anything to a boil on the two smaller burners; damned near impossible on the two 9500 BTU burners, and the monster 20,000 BTU center burner still takes forever in comparison to our old Thermador.  So frustrated was I that I bought from Woot a  Regal Ware Induction Cooktop; $39 + $5 shipping.  Comparative times required to bring one quart of water to a rolling boil (unlidded):

  * GE Cafe 9500 BTU - 16 minutes
  * GE Cafe 20,000 BTU - 7 minutes, 27 seconds
  * REGAL  INDUCTION - 5 Minutes 2 Seconds

After one year two of the knobs have broken; both when hit when removing a pan!  Why?  The inside is the cheapest of plastics, and I will assure you that GE makes more profit over the long haul on replacements they did in the stove top.

And, this!  I recently had a boil-over of some pea soup that got under the center burner.  It was a god-awful job trying to get all the muck out, and the burner itself had to be started with a propane lighter for weeks afterward before it would ignite on its own again (yes, I cleaned it, even using compressed air), and still, as we speak 3 months later, a 45 quadrant of that burner barley lights,  while the rest is at full heat.

This is the most poorly designed appliance we've ever had.  Badly engineered overall, and over engineered with a clumsy, confusing, and unnecessary design to light two burners at once with one knob (when using the griddle).  I mean, how hard is it to light two burners?  In sum, it looks nice, but I'd like to take it out in the yard and shoot it, save for the money we'd lose.