"KLS" > wrote in message
>
> Ed, why'd you decide to buy this gem? $2,500 is a lot of change, so
> I'm curious what convinced you to part with the $$ instead of just
> spending less than half that for a proletarian range.

Let's not forget that you can buy a range that will cook food and boil water
for tea for $500. Your choice of gas or electric. Many people would be
very happy with that.

We had a Roper for the past 20 years and it was starting to show its age.
The oven needed repair, timer was shot for the past few years. So, we
decided that a Viking/Wolf/DCS for $5000 was out of our range and we set a
budget of $1200 or so. I looked at some models on line and thought he
Kitchen Aid was probably the best for our needs.

I had to stop at the grocery store on the way home from work and our local
appliance dealer is across the street. Since I was close, I figured I'd
take a peek at what they had on display. They sell all varieties from low
end to high end. He did have a KA similar to what I'd want. I also looked
at a Bosch dual fuel that was in the 2k range. Then I spotted the
Bertazzoni sitting by itself and the style caught my eye. Up to that point,
I never heard of the brand and it is relatively new in the US in spite of
120 years in Italy. Just for fun I did some research on the company and
found them to be of good quality. Three days later I took my wife to the
store and she saw and fell in love with the range too.

While a stretch of the budget, we figured it is the last stove we will ever
buy so why not get the best possible. It had the features we wanted, the
powerful burners, the grid over the top, sealed burners etc. So we bought.

I'm glad we did. It cooks well, the flame is perfect on every burner, the
oven is fantastic. Bertazzoni is more than we expected. I mentioned the
paint is applied at the same factory that paints the Lamborghini. Cooking
on this thing is like the difference between driving to work in the family
mini van or a fine crafted sports car. Responsive? A pot of boiling
potatoes can be controlled as fine and as quick from full boil to nothing
and back to boil the same as turning the volume knob on a radio.