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Ranges: the price of going pro.(HOME: Dream kitchens for less)(Buyers guide)

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| August 01, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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