{"id":92,"date":"2006-10-22T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T02:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/now-were-cooking"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T01:52:18","slug":"range-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/old-house\/kitchen-remodel\/range-oven\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We’re Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWhen I took my parents to the Lowe’s by their house to show them our potential refrigerator and gas range, I noticed that the range we’d been eyeing had been marked down. AJM wanted a standalone range and given that he does almost all the cooking I felt he should choose what he liked. We looked at the high-end pseudo professional ranges and decided to save our money. So we agreed on a Kitchen-Aid gas range with a convection oven.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn returning to Austin, I found out that Kitchen Aid was coming out with new model<\/a> and Lowe’s was clearing out the one we wanted. Lowe’s had been selling it for $1499 and I snagged it for $1349. So I ordered it on Tuesday and they delivered it on Wednesday and took away our old, chipped “Magic Chef” range.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe didn’t get to installing the new range (or “cooker” as my Englishman terms it) until Sunday. We were hoping that the vent we’ve had on order for a month would come in first as it would be easier to install the vent without having to work around the range. However, unpacking it carefully took longer than hooking it up.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe weather was suddenly chilly Sunday morning (in the 40s!) so we decided to cook a real meal: AJM’s pot roast via “Cook’s Illustrated”. So far, so good. We haven’t smelled gas or blown ourselves up, yet.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe new oven is rather loud, even when the convection fan isn’t running. However, it must be incredibly well-insulated as you can put your hand on the sides or the door and not feel any heat at all. The upside to that is we can do more cooking in the summer when we don’t usually cook at all. The downside is that I’ve often relied on the oven to keep the kitchen toasty while doing my Christmas baking.\n<\/p>\n

\nAJM is ecstatic. I never realized how much he hated our old range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool things about the new oven. It has a “bread proof” mode for ensuring yeast breads have the perfect temperature to rise in. And, for those who don’t want to mix religion with cookery, it comes with a sabbath mode. I think I would have preferred a “Black Sabbath” mode–an oven with a built-in mpg player which would belt out “Iron Man” or “Bark at the Moon” when the oven timer went off.<\/p>\n

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