Product review (4 stars): Gas-Convection: There's Nothing Like It
Having had electric ranges for the 45 years we've been married, this was a first for us in many ways. Gas burners heat all things on the store much faster than we had experienced, and that takes some getting used to. First, be very careful about handling the grates after cooking on top. They are extremely hot. Second, get yourself some frying pan handle covers so that heat from another burner does scald you when you pick up a frying pan. Last, when something boils over, cleaning the cooktop surface can be a real chore.

Those may sound like negatives. They're not. They're just warnings for those of us (you) who haven't used gas before. Since I'm only in charge of rice, spaghetti, and scrambling my own eggs for breakfast, I can only tell you that there's nothing like cooking with gas. Once you get used to hot hot things get and how fast, turn down the burners and you'll come out with perfect omeletes.

We haven't used the convection oven much yet, but we have done chocolate chip cookies (what else would you experiment on?) by the batch, and they've been out of this world! Again, watch your timer: this stuff gets done really fast. Cakes are also fantastic. We know have gained 20% body fat in just three months.

Want really good pizza? Use a pizza stone in the oven. The oven, btw, doesn't preheat any faster than a conventional stove. That will come in the next two generations of home appliances.

The broiler works pretty much like any broiler, but here's a warning that GE never thought of: for those of you used to cooking with electric for as many years as we, we've always been told to open the oven a crack while doing so. (There's nothing about this in the manual.) Well, if you do this on this GE, you'll melt the knobs which are just above the oven door. The vents for the oven are one design flaw and the reason why I gave this 4.5 stars. On the other hand, give GE 5 stars for customer service. They sent out new knobs FedEx as soon as they heard about our problem.

Knobs aside, this is a beautifully designed range, and a beautiful range looks-wise. The front panel is the best we've had, and everything is laid out very handily and logically. We're really going to miss GE when it sells off its appliance unit. I don't know if this is something to consider before you buy this range, but I wouldn't worry about it for a while. My guess is that GE will have customer service for current buyers long after the appliance division becomes part of ... whatever.