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Gas ranges and electric ranges and induction tops, oh my! Find out what your options are and the difference between them, so you can be well-versed when you buy your next stove.
CTV’s Marke Driesschen finds out from Trail Appliance’s Richmond Store Manager Drew, just what to look for when shopping for a new stove.
Transcript:Marke: Whether you decide to go gas range, electric range, a range is an integral part of your kitchen, and now they’re becoming part of the kitchen, not just in the kitchen as well. Our friend Drew is here to tell us about it. And yeah, these appliances seem to be sort of the overall design of the kitchen, rather than being just plunked in the middle of it. Is that right?
Drew: You nailed it. So many kitchen designs start here, with the appliances, which is why we show so many different kitchen designs here. This kitchen’s actually fully live, so customers can try their stuff. This range that you’re actually looking at right now is a Jenn-Air dual fuel range. So a dual fuel, you get gas on the top, which everybody loves for the control of cooking with fire and the instant heat, the instant off, but then it’s doubled with a dual fuel, so it’s an electric oven.
Marke: Oh, okay. Yeah.
Drew: So when you’re using ovens, typically people are baking a lot and stuff like that. Electric ovens are more temperature-consistent. Um, just works better for your baking.
Marke: Exactly. And it looks great, too. It fits in nice if you’re doing an island like this, it fits in nice.
Drew: Oh yeah, for sure.
Marke: Now, if you just wanted to go electric range as well, we see this quite a bit in new kitchens too.
Drew: Right, we’re seeing a lot of people getting more away from the range and going with the cooktop/wall oven combo. So you can put your cooktop on the counter top, and then you can actually put your wall oven some place that’s more accessible for you instead of bending over as much to get into it.
Marke: I just remembered the old coil things you had to take out and insert as well.
Drew: Yeah, those are still available. We don’t sell too many of those anymore.
Marke: I wouldn’t want one anyway! And about energy efficiency as well, these are much better.
Drew: This particular cooktop is an induction cooktop. It’s the most energy-efficient way to cook. There’s no waste of heat whatsoever, there’s no flames going around your pot, there’s no big coil to heat up. It’s all done with electromagnetic energy which actually turns your pot into the burner.
Marke: Oh, there you go then. Does it make you into a better cook?
Drew: In some ways it does.
Marke: Okay.
Drew: Not myself though.
Marke: Neither would it me. Thanks Drew.
Drew: No problem.
