Thanks for the review, jab913! It sounds like you are quite content with your range choice. The Capital is certainly an attractive range.

It's nice to hear from a fellow Capital owner - seems there are so few of us out there. Don't understand why, but then again, one of the selfish reasons I bought this range is that most people don't have it.

I agree that the range cleans up easily and the sealed burners work marvelously. I did have to have the simmer adjusted lower (personal preference). Someone else on this forum has the griddle and has yet to use it so I would be curious to hear about your experience.

I have the grill which I have to say is a bear to clean (if I want to keep it looking nice). I did get a recommendation from the service person (who is wonderful [if you live in Southern CA]) for a stainless cleaner. Kleen King stainless cleaner - it's a liquid. However, I have had no luck in finding it although it was supposed to be sold at hardware stores. Hopefully, that product will work well enough so that I will want to use the grill more often.

I await to read about your baking/oven experiences in the future.

I've had the Capital Precision AG 36 inch range for a couple of months. I love the perfomance of everything -- the burners, the oven, and the broiler! It looks so solid and well-designed as well. It cleans up beautifully. I fried over 200 potato latkes on Sunday, and miraculously, there was no burnt on grease on the stove top. My only complaint is I have some faint scratches on the stove top, probably from inadvertently sponging hard food particles. Has anyone else had a problem with scratching? I generally clean it with a damp sponge and dishwashing detergent, then occasionally buff with stainless steel magic or W240. Everyone who walks into the kitchen is impressed with its appearance, but there is little name recognition.

My 30" Precision has been in for about 3 months. So far it is great, very substantial, the knobs are solid and precise and do not get hot and it looks great. The high btu burners drop down to a very low simmer. I have not tried the melting chocolate on a paper plate trick. The range is very simple, a convection fan, igniters, and light. No fancy circuit boards or electronics to fry from the heat. I particularly like the center 25k btu burner for large pan sautes and to rapidly heat stock or pasta water. At Thanksgiving used convection oven to cook a high heat turkey. 475 degrees and 2 hours cooked a 19 lb turkey that was fabulous. My model does not have rotisserie, I use outside grill. Hope this helps.

jab913--Thanks for the wonderful report on your Capital. Have been trying to make a decision on a rangetop and am leaning heavily toward the Capital, but have not had any REAL experience information to process. Love everything you have said about the product. I live in the Southern part of the U.S. and have to travel 6-7 hours to even look at one. Will probably do that in January, since redo is going SLOWLY!!!!

julier1234- You mention the the grill is a bear to clean. Can you expand on that?? I am looking at the Capital because of the grill. Supposed to be very good. How is the performance of the grill??

OK, let me chime in - as I've posted (many times) before, I also love my Capital. The burners are great - I have recently started doing a bit of stir fry and the 19K burners really do a nice job; ovens are great - I have the 48" w/ griddle - the small oven was calibrated and now is great - as is the large oven. The fans are very quiet. No issues w/ hot knobs or anything. I think anyone looking for an AG should defiitely take a look. I know, it's sealed burners, but they are fine by me. It's a workhorse AND it looks great.

Only thing is, for some reason I haven't used the griddle -don't know why; I think i'm afraid to get it dirty. I alsmost did a couple of weeks ago when my son wanted pancakes, but I didn't go to the trouble of cleaning the grill first. So I put it off. Again. I will get around to doing it. Soon.

The grill works great - better than we expected. My husband has assigned himself the job of cleaning the grill afterwards and it just takes a lot of time. Of course, he wants it to look like new so you should take that fact into consideration. A little like Coleen not wanting to dirty up the griddle (which is ridiculous Coleen ;-)). We have cooked beautiful steaks on it - perfectly seared on the outside with the grill marks. Love it otherwise.

When I had my oven calibrated, the service guy commented on how clean we kept the range. That should give you some insight.

Well Christmas is only minutes away and most of my baking has been done. Ovens performed quite well. Initially it took me the first batch of cookies to get things dialed in but after that I had a pretty good feel for it. The past few days I have baked unlimited batches of butter cookies which are a Christmas tradition for my family. Was able to use all 3 racks in large oven for cookies with excellent results. Along with these came pumpkin rolls, pumpkin bread, wheat bread, and several pies. Pies and pie shells came out looking fantastic. At times I had both ovens working at once and that sure was a time saver. Matter of fact I saved enough time that I was able to go the beach for a couple of days, ya gotta love California. Oven did a great job on the breads as well as the cakes for the pumpkin rolls. So far I am still getting acquainted but my initial tests have been quite satisfactory. Only minor flaw I have found is the smaller oven has a slightly hotter spot toward the rear. Tomorrow I will put it to another test with prime rib and ham. I expect that the oven will do well, the cook I'm not so sure. Hopefully everyones Christmas is filled with joy and peace.

Well the Christmas day is done and the range was certainly put to the test. Today it handled the 13 lb. prime rib and 12 lb. ham with ease. Also used the smaller oven for 2 more last minute pies. Again the only problem I have found is the smaller oven does not have as even heat distribution. Was able to compensate by rotating pies halfway through. At the same time the cooktop was being worked for various side dishes. All in all it was a great cooking experience.

Just wanted to alert people who might be considering a Capital - when I ordered my 48" 8 burner rangetop it was a 12 week lead time to delivery. Something to consider when planning. Mine is expected to arrive the week of Jan. 21st and I won't move in until April, so I can't comment on much else.

FWIW, I saw one Capital Performance range in person and basically decided to buy my Precision rangetop sight unseen, based on GW reviews and speaking to the very helpful people at Capital.

Congratulations smarge I am sure you will be very happy with the cooktop. When I ordered my range the lead time was about 8 weeks. Turned out to be a much longer wait. Very long story but it was not the fault of Capital. They and the distributor were actually quite helpful.

My range continues to perform quite well. Even my wife enjoys using it.

I think it's because the rangetop just became available. I was fortunate, my range was ready for me before I was ready for it.

smarge - I think you'll really like it. We love ours.

Congrats on your Capital. Renovations are going slow but when I reach the kitchen, a Capital it is! But has anyone used the rotisserie? If so, how is it?

hey folks,

I'm looking for some cooking help and advice. I bought a 36" Capital Precision largely on the basis of recommendations from this board. I love the look and the burners.

However, I'm having some trouble with the oven. It seems to take a long time to get hot and doesn't seem to get as hot as I'd like. I had the service guy in to test the temperature -- and he found it was slight over 500 degrees. in other words, fine.

And yet, it still doesn't seem right to me. I tried to make a thin-crust pizza on a pizza stone in the oven and it took ages to cook and never charred up. A smallish roast chicken came out spectacularly (maybe the best i've ever cooked) but took much longer than normal. normally a chicken of this size would take around 50 min to an hour, but this took a solid 1:20 to 1:30 or so.

I haven't tried the convection yet.

Any advice? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help!

-Jesse

Jesse,

Use the convection!!!!

Thanks linda. that's my next step.

I am currently looking at a 36" Capital Range. Would any of you like to provide any follow up comments now that you have had your Capitals for a couple of year? Are you still happy? Thank you.

I am currently looking at a 36" Capital Range. Would any of you like to provide any follow up comments now that you have had your Capitals for a couple of year? Are you still happy? Thank you.

I've seriously considering a 30" Capital range but can't find any reviews from long term users. I'm looking for feedback before I pull the trigger.

Can any Capital owners comment on the long term reliability of their ranges?

Hi, I am also looking for any Capital owners that have been using a range and griddle for an extended period of time. I am looking at the newer culinarian rangetop. and the ovens. Any feedback would be great. I really like the company and they have been very helpful in my slow remodel. I live in N. Ca and it is hard to find a location to see the product but most people that I talk to love the product.