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30 inch, six burner, farmhouse look range?

2 years ago

Hi! I am almost settled on buying the GE Cafe Range for our about to be renovated farmhouse style kitchen, but I so wish the bottom had pro-style "legs." The 36 inch Cafe has just the right look, but the price hurts and I don't really need 36 inches either. Any other options I should consider? Stainless and reliable are key too.

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  • 2 years ago
    Julia Grody thanked wdccruise
  • 2 years ago

    What is your price range? The BlueStar Culinary series is about 1k less than Cafe (~5k), has a professional look, and the brand gets good reliability ratings in this forum. 30 inch wolf and thermador all gas ranges are similar (5-6k).

    Julia Grody thanked J J
  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    30" ranges do not and cannot have 6 burners as mentioned all you can cook then is stuff in tiny pots. I really have no idea about farmhouse look IMO you buy a range for how you cook first then how it looks. I actually would not even find the 5 burners useful. Go 36" wahy are you so against that size ?

  • 2 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Do you all have any convinced that I should either go to 36 inches if my layot will allow (I don’t think it will) or stick with four burners.

  • 2 years ago

    Patricia: this is a 30 inch six burner: Café CGS700P2MS1 30" Slide-In Gas Oven

  • 2 years ago

    Joseph -- I love the Blue Star Culinary. That's the winner!!! Any low profile hood suggestion?

  • 2 years ago

    I love the config of that CGS700P2MS1! 30 inchers crowd out quickly when the big pans come out. I’d almost choose that and spare myself the under-range cleaning, but I do love BS’s star burners. (Actually I’ve only cooked on Garland, not BS, but I assume it’s the same.)

    Julia Grody thanked foodonastump
  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    Where is your kitchen layout, which comes well before any consideration as to the look of the "farm flavored" range?

    Show the flat on paper, 2 dimensional plan with the walls, windows , cabinets and all the feet and inches, please. ?

  • 2 years ago

    Does a renovated farmhouse style kitchen really fit in your style of home? I see it popping up here a lot, and I imagine that it will be a trend like the Tuscan kitchen that everyone will be unloading in a few years.

  • 2 years ago

    Farmhouse style actually does fit with our red oak hardwood floors, wildflower gardens and fruit tress, thanks, and I was surprised to find it was a "style" when I started researching. At least that made finding items that fit our look easy.


    Meanwhile, the featured answer was PERFECT and I have ordered the exact oven he recommended. The salesperson said it was almost the best one in the store, to him. (The same one but with one more burner was "the best" to him.) Super reliable, no bells and whistles I don't need, large oven for baking, and the "legs" i wanted! Thanks all for the help, particularly Joshua!

  • 2 years ago

    I’m not sure what qualifies as a low profile hood - futuro makes hoods that are 1.5 inch thick but they are more a contemporary than farmhouse style:

    https://futurofuturo.com/36-streamline-wall-range-hood/

    If your concern is minimizing the appearance of the hood you can get a blower unit and have it installed in a cabinet above the range to hide it.

    Julia Grody thanked J J
  • 2 years ago

    Per our kitchen designer's recommendation, we used a simple streamlined Vent A Hood with our Blue Star Range the kitchen in our old house. (Pic below). The range kicks out a ton of BTU's so good ventilation is really important.


    I loved how easy it was to clean our Blue Star, and even though my husband and I are not handy AT ALL, during COVID lockdown we were able to repair it ourselves because there are no electronic bells and whistles.




    Julia Grody thanked Kendrah
  • 2 years ago

    Thanks, Josh and Kendrah. You are right that my next decision (do they EVER end??) is the hood. In the showroom, the salesperson showed me a set up that had a really nice looking white "fancy" hood and then they had put a powerful 36% vent inside. So the hood was inexpensive to build and paint, but looked great. We're considering that now BECAUSE


    It turns out the range can't go where we wanted, which was below a large window. So we no longer need the hood we thought we needed.

  • 2 years ago

    It may come down to price on the hood. I like the look of yours Kendrah -- clean, simple, practical. Nice to have a bit of extra cabinet. SO MANY CHOICES.

  • 2 years ago

    It turns out the range can't go where we wanted, which was below a large window. So we no longer need the hood we thought we needed.

    Probably a good thing that fell through. I wouldn’t want to be cleaning greasy glass all day.

    Did you actually look at the range in person?

  • 2 years ago

    The range, hood, and make-up air system should not be sequential questions to answer, but concurrent questions to answer.

    When I saw this topic's heading, my immediate thought was something like this.



  • 2 years ago

    Yes, so many, too many choices. Sometimes it is a good thing when it comes down to money because it helps narrow down the options.

  • 2 years ago


    Here is a hood surround that you can build yourself.


    You should double check your building code to see if you can install a range in front of a window. Wind blowing out a flame, and wind blowing curtains into a flame are concerns.

  • 2 years ago

    Ended up with a 36 inch blue star cuisine series and very happy with it