Bosch HGI8054UC 800 30" Stainless Steel Gas Slide-In Sealed Burner Range - Convection

Absolutely fabulous range for the dollars!This slide in range provides a sleek modern built-in look as it slides in slightly over your countertop edges. This is much better than a stand-alone range that leaves gaps where crumbs and grease drip down the sides! Additionally the sunken top provides a nice flush top that is only slightly higher than your countertop. The back has a nice cutout that accommodates your gas hookup and electrical cord allowing the range to mount nicely against the back wall. Electrical cord is already attached leaving only a quick gas hookup to install.Stovetop burners provide great BTU that allow one to bring a pot to quicker boil! Many out there do not leaving one to wait what seems forever for boil! All oven features are clearly identified making for easy operation. A ten digit keypad allows one to set the oven temp to whatever might be desired quickly rather than pressing arrows until reaching the temp you want! The warming drawer will be very beneficial when one wishes to keep an item warm while baking or broiling another dish for your dinner. I haven't used the self-cleaning feature to date.This range is well priced for the quality of construction and features. This seller has the best price I could find and delivery was in reasonable time. The delivery team did unpack it from it's crate and deliver it into my kitchen. (know they do leave all packing for you to discard) Final unpacking and install I did myself.

Love how the fit of the oven over the counter keeps food from dropping between the counter the and the oven. The digital display shows exactly when the oven is at temperature making it incredible for baking. Have been happy with it so far. Digital touch screen is nice but easy to hit when cleaning the oven top. Very nice for the price I would consider it a better quality oven. I had it professionally installed so there have been no issue with balance as some reviews have complained.

*edit* I fixed the poor design of the burners. Read below to see why the burners were so frustrating to me.The fix: I drilled a 3/16" hole through the center of the large burner cover. This gives me a bunson burner type center flame (at a little velocity) in the dead center of the cover that rises about 4", kind of like a burning oil well. The ring flames still work, I just now have two sources of heat -- the center flare and the ring.I tried heating a pan with a hamburger in it and it started to sizzle after only about 20 seconds. That same sizzle would have taken 3 minutes or longer with the oringinal ring design.*end of edit*There is something odd about the stovetop part of this range. When the grills are install, the bottom of a pan sits about 1 1/2" above the burner cover. That seemed high to me. The small burners in the back are 1 5/8" from the pan bottom, and the two larger burners are 1 3/8" below pan level. With that large amount of clearance, a lot of the heat from the flames dissipates in the air before it hits the pan bottom.So just for fun I took the grate off, and put my frypan right on top of the flame. BAM!!!! started heavily sizzling in like three seconds. Put the grill back on, set the pan down, nothing.Bottom line is that frying (or water heating) performance depends on how far the pan bottom is from the flame. If it's like 1 1/2" as it is with this stove, the performance suffers a lot. I read some people thought it took too long to heat water, which didn't make sense to me given the high BTU from the center and the right front burners. Well, know I know. The grates simply remove the pan too far from the burnerBottom line is about half of those BTUs are getting sucked up by the air between the burner and the pan. Which means stuff heats up a lot more slowly, AND, the burners are heating up the house as much as they are heating the bottom of your pan.***edit*** I decided to really learn how much slower heating is up on the grate vs. sitting on the burner cover, so I did this experiment:Test: How quickly I can get ½” of water, about 16 oz. to come to a boilPan used: Cuisinart 722-24NS Chef's Classic Nonstick Stainless 10-Inch Open SkilletMethod 1: Pan resting directly on left front burner cover, burner to highVisible Steam: 1:12Gentle boil, edge of pan: 2:00Rolling Boil, edge of pan: 3:15Rolling Boil, Center of pan: 4:10Method 2: Pan sitting on elevated Grate (the normal way)Visible Steam: never, actuallyGentle boil, edge of pan: 5:15Rolling Boil, edge of pan: 14:00Rolling Boil, Center of pan: never, gave up at 15:00, wasting too much gasNow what I'm trying to figure out is whether it is possible to raised the burners by about 3/4"... I have to take a look at how they're mounted. Just hate, hate, hate waiting a long time to boil water, and hate even more wasting so much gas to heat air and not the pot.

This stove works fine ; I've had it for about a year. About a month ago I noticed a chlorine bleach smell when preheating that goes away after heating. I had a Bosch certified repairman look at it. He took the thing apart, couldn't find anything wrong and said it was safe to use. I'm still concerned. Has anyone out there in Amazon land ever heard of this?