Product review (3 stars): Much easier to clean, MUCH harder to keep clean.
I have mixed feelings about this range. I am upgrading from the old school electric, coil burner range, and I have to say, this ceramic cooktop range is MUCH easier to clean, but WAY harder to KEEP clean. I'll explain; the cooktop is a breeze to clean. Any little spill or stain can be instantly removed, and even at the end of a cooking session, its simple to wipe everything down. BUT, this surface shows EVERY SINGLE STAIN AND SPILL and in most cases will burn that spill in, almost ABSORBING the mess. It is a herculean task to literally scour and scrape to get this thing to be actually clean and clear on its surface. So, you can have a pot boil over and you can clean up the SPILL in seconds, whereas a coil range, you would have to remove the coil, clean the coil, lift the range and go under and clean up everything, etc, etc, but you will have to spend 15 minutes and a ton of elbow grease to actually REMOVE that spill from the cooktop surface. It looks 1000 times better than my old range, but it has actually created more work in the kitchen just to keep it looking presentable. Mechanically, it also has some little quirks; like the burners get hot damn near INSTANTLY, and the temps are hard to adjust to, but I guess that just comes with using a new device. I have found that using any burner other than the powerboil burner takes forever to boil something. Eh. I'm happy with the purchase, but if I had the money, I would've gone induction