[A/S] Gaggenau gas cooktop

["Pam Lunn" <pam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hunter,

You will never regret your gaggenau purchase (unless you paid full price - 
they are on Ebay quite often).  A few years ago I was looking for a cooktop 
for our guest house (my parents winter here).  I kept finding the ones with 
the spiral burners at the home improvement stores which I did not want. 
Everyone told me that there was no such thing as an electric two burner 
smoothtop!  I kept looking on Ebay and lo and behold I found a two burner 
gaggenau ceran cooktop - and ended up with it for $151 including shipping!

I know you got gas but I just can't sing the praises for gaggenau enough! 
We put the multitester on it when installing it and it gets hot with 
lightening speed and pulls such a very small amount of current - less than 
1/4 the current needed for a normal electric cooktop.  The workmanship is 
astounding!

Unfortunately my daughter dropped a pitcher from a shelf above and it broke 
the ceran.  Called repair service thinking a new piece of ceran would be a 
couple hundred!!  No way - over $700 for just the glass!!!  Needless to say 
that cooktop is in a plastic bag in storage in hopes I will find on that 
doesn't work on Ebay that I can replace the ceran.  We ended up getting 
another gaggenau - I am sold - with burners but not the spiral burners.  It 
also performs excellent and has a fold down top to cover it when not in use. 
We do have a toaster over in the guest house but felt that was sufficient 
for my parent's cooking needs.

Turns out the first gaggenau came from a large fancy motorhome.  But the 
reason he got rid of it was that it needed 220 and it wasn't seldom 
available.  Hopefully another fancy motorhome will find the same problem and 
put their smoothtop on ebay eventually!  <grin>

Pam in Tampa