Kitchen ranges

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

Comment:

Cooktop used 5-6 days a week for heating foods, preparing soups, spaghetti, steaming vegetables, frying/scrambling eggs. I use stainless steel cookware most often. One hard anodized aluminum pan heats really fast and tends toward burning/over-cooking if not watching.<br /><br />Cooktop cleans well using products specific for glass cooktops and following their directions - fudge, tomato sauce, melted cheese, cooked egg, grease spatters all cleaned up. No scratches from any of these and cooktop still looks new.<br /> <br />Adjusting to how convection oven works - haven't quite fine tuned for all dishes yet. Pies have come out beautiful as do cookies from the small upper oven. However, rack in upper oven allows too much movement where dishes could actually slide off the rack -use caution when pulling rack out. <br /><br />Ovens (both upper and lower separately and combined) heat to temperature much faster than my old electric coil-top stove.<br /><br />Warming function in oven worked well at holidays to keep prepared dishes warm.<br /><br />Electronic controls require you to always hit the Start button after setting time or temp - have forgotten to do so and end up having to repeat the process - user issue that should go away if memory improves. <br /><br />Self-cleaning oven - horrible odor on first use but the baked-on bacon grease-spattered oven was clean upon completion without scrubbing on my part.

How long have you owned it:

One-to-three months

Bottom Line

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend.

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

Comment:

I was very disappointed in this range. I wanted a double oven, but the ones with the second oven on the very bottom wouldn't work for me, especially if I was lifting a heavy turkey out of it. I thought this would work, giving me the 2 ovens I was looking for. If you use the two ovens, the temp doesn't register correctly. On the bottom part, you don't have the room to put in a big item to bake, like a turkey. You have to use the whole oven, which defeats the reason I wanted the 2 ovens - to cook two things at the same time. Things don't cook the same as in a regular oven and it's been hard trying to judge the time and temp to cook things. I thought I could use the top oven to save on electricity (there's only 2 of us), but the top oven doesn't work for everything. Even with the instructions in front of me, it's a bigger pain than it's worth. Wish I had a regular oven and never bought this one.

How long have you owned it:

Three-to-six months

Bottom Line

No, I would not recommend this to a friend.

(1 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

Comment:

I have only had my Smooth Cooktop for 2 weeks. I bought brand new pots and pans for this appliance (pans recommended for this type of stove). The second time I used the stove, I was being very careful, actually too careful and there is now permanent scratches on the the Stovetop. I am very disappointed and outright frustrated. This is a stove that should be designed to cook and NOT just too look pretty. It CAN NOT possibly be this delicate. Samsung is sending a contractor to look at it, but I think this is a defective appliance and I want a brand new one. If it looks like this after 2 weeks and only 2 uses, I can't imagine what it will look like in years. Kitchen appliances are made to last for years; not weeks.

How long have you owned it:

A month or less

Bottom Line

No, I would not recommend this to a friend.