Professional style ranges for the home are selling like hotcakes, but they're expensive.
In fact, you can spend thousands of dollars for one. Consumer Reports wanted to know what you get for that much money. In a busy professional kitchen, chefs count on their powerful professional stoves to heat up quickly, but also be gentle enough for a simmer. At Consumer Reports , Angelo Mannino put 5 of the new professional ranges for the home through a battery of tough tests. They came from Viking, Thermador, GE, Wolf and Garland and ranged in price from about 4 to 6 thousand dollars.