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Because a range is the heart of your kitchen, the choice of one can set the menu for the rest of a remodeling project. Although you can spend as much as $6,000 on a professional range, you can get an excellent conventional one for one-tenth of that amount.
Our tests of four expensive 36-inch-wide pro-style models did not show any major differences compared with conventional ranges in cooking performance, even for specialized gourmet cooking. What you do gain is the ability to cook a lot of food, quickly. For someone who rarely entertains on a lavish scale, a big pro-style range makes little sense. (See CloseUp, below, for results of a cook-off between an expensive ...