That's one beautiful stove Janet!!
Tell us more about it and why it was your choice please.
I'd think that you've missed having the oven most, so maybe you should bake a cake to celebrate.
It's a Thermadore and uses propane. The burners are 15K BTU and 2 of them have a super low simmer setting. The oven is aslo propane and convects. it's simple - no fancy timers or digital pads and will run in a power outage.
There is some back story here... A few years ago we redid the kitchen and put in a jennaire downdraft slide in electric range - it was lovely and we bought it new at a salvage sale (store going out of business). W egot a great deal. Somewhere here at DC there is a thread about the kitchen remodel with dragged on endlessly.
In the past few years since the remodel we've had to replace the the digital controller for that jennaire 3 times - each time at a 400.00 cost. Turns out there is a design flaw and the control board cooks each time you clean the oven. When the board dies you cannot use any part of the stove or oven - it's all touch pad controlled. Recently that board fired again and we were faced with the same repair for a range that I had to baby. The glass top is too delicate (also been replaced once when I dropped a pie tin on it and it cracked).
The kitchen is part of a larger great room and that space has a wood burning fireplace that we rarely use because the wood smoke hangs in the neighborhood and more heat goes up the chimney than the fire produces. For years we've talked about putting a propane insert in the fireplace (no natural gas in the area) and so when the stove died we decided to move ahead with the fireplace redo and also get a gas burning stove at the same time.
All that was left was to raid the piggy bank and choose the range. There are lots of choices. After the jennaire nightmare I was determined to avoid any range with a digital control board and get one that would work in a power outage. That left only a few choices and all expensive.
After reading the reviews and looking at a few models, we discounted wolf and viking. That left a PCS range and this one to choose between, both about the same cost. The PCS had 5 burners including a 25K btu wok burner which was very appealing but a buddy of mine who is an appliance repair person suggested that the Thermadore might be more reliable. On the day I was going to purchase the thermadore folks rolled out a special that included a free dishwasher and so that was the clincher. My dish washer works but it's 14 years old so that seemed fortuitous.
The Jennaire we took out was a downdraft and there was a microwave above so we need to add a range hood and all the ducting to go with and the wall where the microwave used to be had to be tiled. Fortunately I saved the left overs from the remodel.
here's a pic of the old range...
We had the fire place professionally installed and they also did the needed propane plumbing to the range but we installed the range hood and the range. Turns out it's quite heavy and was a big job.
The cake is a good idea - I need to make friends with the oven. It has these cool roll-out racks that will be nice for heavy things like turkeys. I have missed baking.
Today I have to decide what to cook and also need to decide what knobs to use on the range - it came with a second set of knobs and they are blue. Maybe we need a poll?