Viking or Wolf? Range-top or Drop-in? Residential - Page 2

appreciated your ragetop review from the repair man perspective.  I am in the market for a 36 INCH cooktop or range top--considering a  DCS CPU 366 rangetop .  wonder what you would buy??  I'm concerned about the ignitor problems--any other Manufacturers that have units that can go 17500 - 700 BTU on 4 burners and 1250-700 on the other 2 burners  ??t  I want to cook, not be calling the repair man ti fix new stuff!!  wonder if you have any comments on the DCS CPU 366 ??

I am also interested in the kitchenaid steam double oven  KEBU208SSS?? anyone have experience with this unit??  There are absolutely NO reviews anywhere!!

THANKS. 

If Wolf when it is delivered don't let repair man leave. My opinion JUNK.

I've had two Wolf ranges. The first one, made by Wolf for the home was great. The last Wolf range I had was made by subzero. The top worked fine for a couple of years and then the ignitions went crazy. We lived in the country and no Sub zero dealer could get a repair man to come to even look at it. When you turned one burner on the ignition on one of more other burners would start striking and wouldn't stop until we went down to the basement and turned off the power. It was horrible!

The only time we got a repair man was when there was a fire/burning hazard in the ovens and they sent their serviceman. And by the way, the ovens were horrible - uneven heating, broiling etc. If I made corn bread, I'd had to reverse the pan halfway through otherwise one side would over brown and the other side would be under cooked. The repairman's answer to that is "that's how their oven works"!

We recently moved and our current kitchen has a cook top which is from New Zealand, and it's the worst - all different sized burners, badly placed, etc. So now I'm looking for a replacement range top and hoping there's something on the market that will fit in my space and work with my pop up vent.  June

Make sure that whatever choice you make, that they have people in your area who will service it; and it would probably be a good idea to have them write it down. And by the way, Sub-Zero was no help at all, other than referring us to dealers in two states, none of whom could get a service person out to our house. And with those Wolf ranges, no one else can service them!

If you go with a regular cook top, I think you will be very unhappy. You'll be moving pots back and forth constantly. I have one of these and I've never been so frustrated with any stove. The New Zealand brand that is in this house we recently purchased is horrible. First of all, it has a wok burner and that's the most powerful. OK, but then they put the simmer burner at the right front, and the most powerful of the other regular burners at the right back. There's a pop up vent, so you can't put your large pan on that burner because it hits the pop up vent. All the other burners are less powerful than that; and even that burner which is supposed to have enough BTU's, doesn't. When I've brought a 2 gallon pot of water up to a full boil, when I remove the lid, the boil almost immediately stops. So if you buy a model like this, you'd better have an overhead vent, which is a lot more expensive option.

These cook tops, if they're all anything like the one I had, are a waste of money. If you only need two burners, and aren't really into cooking, I guess they would be OK. But I can't imagine anyone who spends any amount of time cooking full dinners, being happy with these.  June
 

I am the proud owner of the Hypotheory HTRT366NG six sealed brass burner professional style range top and I agree with June Perry's posting. It may not be worth it buying a Wolf or Viking range top they are a lot of money, and at the end of the day you are simply paying for the "name" & popularity.  The product does not function any better then competing brands, a gas burner is a gas burner. You still run into the same issues when it comes time to service the item, nobody wants to come out & Wolf only allows qualified technicians to work on their systems, which makes it even more difficult. I can relate because my mother owned one when I was a child, and we lived in Albany, NY, very far from New York City. No service techs!

I got married three years ago and it came time to renovate "our kitchen". My husband's mother left him a house in Orange County. The last time it was updated was probably when "I Love Lucy" was popular. I could not afford a Wolf or Viking with our income, I am a culinary student. I did some digging and was able to find a 36 inch range top offered by Hypotheory called the HTRT366. It is a professional style range top with six sealed brass burners and versatile BTU output. Two of the front burners are triple ring burners. It is a culinary student's dream to be able to have a system that has such diverse burner output options(High,Simmer,All-Purpose). I have owned the unit for about 3 years and I LOVE IT! 

I purchased the Hypotheory HTRT366 range top at www.tagndrop.com originally because it was a third of the cost of any range top on the market and it appears to still be at only $1,295.00; that is a steal! It is probably priced low because they are a younger company then Wolf or Viking.

When you are a culinary student you cook ten times more food then the average, I originally bought the Hypotheory range top because I expected it to fail like my mom's Wolf RT366 lol in a few years. My mother paid $6,000 dollars for her Wolf range top and in 3 years she was forced to buy a new one because nobody wanted to come out and repair the dam things ignition pin. I expected the same when I purchased the Hypotheory HTRT366 but the exact opposite occurred, I was quite impressed lol. To date I have cooked around 8,000 meals on the range top which is equivalent to 7 years of average residential usage in my opinion, the appliance still cooks as if it were a year old, not kidding! I scratched it up a bit, but it is still gorgeous, and I wouldn't trade it in for the world. 

I am the proud owner of the Hypotheory HTRT366NG six sealed brass burner professional style range top and I agree with June Perry's posting. It may not be worth it buying a Wolf or Viking range top they are a lot of money, and at the end of the day you are simply paying for the "name" & popularity.  The product does not function any better then competing brands, a gas burner is a gas burner. You still run into the same issues when it comes time to service the item, nobody wants to come out & Wolf only allows qualified technicians to work on their systems, which makes it even more difficult. I can relate because my mother owned one when I was a child, and we lived in Albany, NY, very far from New York City. No service techs!

I got married three years ago and it came time to renovate my "husband's kitchen". My husband's mother left him a house in Orange County. The last time it was updated was probably when "I Love Lucy" was popular. I could not afford a Wolf or Viking with our income, I am a culinary student. I did some digging and was able to find a 36 inch range top offered by Hypotheory called the HTRT366. It is a professional style range top with six sealed brass burners and versatile BTU output. Two of the front burners are triple ring burners. It is a culinary student's dream to be able to have a system that has such diverse burner output options(High,Simmer,All-Purpose). I have owned the unit for about 3 years and I LOVE IT! 

I purchased the Hypotheory HTRT366 range top at the Tagdrop web site originally because it was a third of the cost of any range top on the market and it appears to still be at only $1,295.00; that is a steal! It is probably priced low because they are a younger company then Wolf or Viking.

When you are a culinary student you cook ten times more food then the average, I originally bought the Hypotheory range top because I expected it to fail like my mom's Wolf RT366 lol in a few years. My mother paid $6,000 dollars for her Wolf range top and in 3 years she was forced to buy a new one because nobody wanted to come out and repair the dam things ignition pin. I expected the same when I purchased the Hypotheory HTRT366 but the exact opposite occurred, I was quite impressed lol. To date I have cooked around 8,000 meals on the range top which is equivalent to 7 years of average residential usage in my opinion, the appliance still cooks as if it were a year old, not kidding! I scratched it up a bit, but it is still gorgeous, and I wouldn't trade it in for the world.