Dee Randall
We just bought an all electric Jenn Air slide-in with grill sans burners. It is the white model JES9860ACW and can be viewed at jennair.com. This model comes without burners so you are paying for the stove and grill only leaving you the flexibility to buy whatever element cartridges you want. The down side is the cartridges are expensive. What I like about the Jenn Air is almost all the parts are easily replaced by the homeowner. That means if you scratch up the top you can easily buy another one and with the turning of a few screws put the new one on. What I don't like is the makers of Jenn Air - Maytag - won't ship parts to Canada unless to a supplier or US postal boxes. If you go through repairclinic.com though you can get a wide range of replacement parts and they ship worldwide. If you really wanted, you could buy replacement parts in another colour and change out the look of your stove for a fraction of the cost of new one!
Correcting toogooey FudgeT. C. Conde I suspect it's your recipe (some combination of marshmallows, chocolate chips, and sweetened condensed milk.) Old Fashioned Fudge...
BTW we looked at the black appliances - range and fridges. Like the stainless steel, they don't appeal to us. I just didn't care for the look. Years ago we bought almond/black glbutt models of fridge and stove. They kept their good looks over the years but the problem comes is when trying to replace one now they no longer make something that matches well. The same is true of the almond colour that they have now replaced with a lighter beige. We decided to go with all white appliances. Our kitchen tolerates the white appliances well whereas black would close in the kitchen and the design just doesn't say stainless.
Glory of noodle soupsThanks for the compliment, I wrote a lot more like it in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of which, though preserved, are not in public archives, like most of that rich period on...
About a year ago we secured a 9 yr old smoothtop Fridgedaire range for nothing intending to replace our old faithful Admiral range. Everything worked except the burners that needed a small part. We spent quite some time trying to find this part including ebay and just about every online source you could think of to no avail. The Fridgedaire range is still sitting in our shed - looking very good and not operational. The fine folks at Fridgedaire were very snotty and unhelpful as they don't keep parts for a 9 yr old stove and acted like we were nuts for trying to fix it. Heck even Consumer Reports rates ranges at a longer lifespan than 9 years! I would not buy a Fridgedaire product just on the basis of their customer service. It was horrible!
DH finally said to heck with it and decided it was time to go shopping for a new range. We did a lot of research and decided that Jenn Air offered what we wanted. We decided against smoothtop because of the amount of canning I do but then we liked that we could have smoothtop and just change out cartridges when canning. In the end, for now, we bought the conventional coil cartridges. We've called Jenn Air's customer service a couple of times - one to figure out how to use certain features and the other to find out how to get parts. They were friendly and even sent us additional literature. They are very pleasant to deal with unlike the Fridgedaire folk.
When buying these higher end appliances, do your homework and make sure their customer service is friendly and helpful if the need arises. Make *sure* you can get parts down the line. A fancy high end appliance is of little use if a minor part breaks and you can't replace it because the company no longer supplies the part.
We are looking at replacing our fridge next and am seriously considering Jenn Air mainly because of their wonderful customer service. However, we are still in the research stage so won't make a decision for another month or so.
