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Question: My friend has a new gourmet "professional" gas range with six
special burners and boiler, grill, griddle, warming tray....Do these use
more gas and heat up a kitchen more than an ordinary gas range?
Answer: Even through these special professional gas ranges have many
features and super-high-output burners, they actually can consume less
energy overall than an ordinary gas range. With one of these ranges anyone
can become a gourmet cook. They are commercial quality and should last a
lifetime.
Professional home-use "restaurant" ranges have burners with heat outputs
as high as 15,000 BTU. The largest burners on ordinary ranges are only
9,000 BTU. When you are boiling water or cooking, the pot heats up faster
with the higher output burners.
This reduces the overall cooking time and the total amount of heat that
is wasted and lost into your kitchen. When cooking or entertaining, your
kitchen will stay more comfortable, especially in the summer.
Professional ranges also have special burner designs and controls to
provide more precise; and therfore, efficient cooking. One model has a
multistage burner that varies the heat output from 14,000 BTU down to only
400 BTU. This is ideal for extremely delicate simmering.
Other professional ranges use special star burners. Instead of a round
burner flame on an ordinary burner, a star burner has eight fingers
projecting from the center. There are many holes in the top of each finger,
so the flame is in contact with the entire bottom of the pot for even
cooking with no burning.
Many professional ranges have six burners, built-in grills with lava
rocks and griddles. The ovens are very large capacity, big enough to handle
a commercial bun tray. Some models have the option of gas or electric
ovens, or one of each. If you prefer an electric oven, you can get an
optional convection oven which allows you to switch the fan on or off.
Special infrared broilers produce evenly cooked juicy meats and seafood.
Instead of just an open flame above the meat, the gas flows out into a
large rectangular honeycomb box. As the gas burns in the hundreds of tiny
holes, the entire honeycomb piece glows red and sears the meat perfectly.
You can also get a super-hot 30,000 BTU accessory burner for wok cooking.
Don't just go out and buy a commercial-grade restaurant range. They are
not certified by the AGA for home use. Certified professional "home-use"
ranges have child-proof knobs, cool air-wash oven doors, electronic
ignition and insulated/multi-wall construction for zero-clearence against
cabinets.
You can write to me for Utility Bills Update No. 637 showing a buyer's
guide for professional home-use gas ranges listing manufacturers, number of
burners, burner heat output, design of burner and broiler, griddles,
grills, convenience features and prices. Pleace include $1.50 and a
self-addressed business size envelope. Send your requests to James Dulley,
c/o Los Angeles Times, 6906 Royalgreen Dr., Cincinnati, Ohio 45244.
L A Times, 6/20/93.

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