I have had this range for a modest over two years and I am an avid cook. In fact I am a brand ambassador for an online cooking site and I test, rate and assess recipes constantly. After reading the before reviews, I am hesitant to give a good assess. I knocked wood, so here I go. First of all, I will agree with some of the complaints. The right front and left rear burners are not commanding, but I do find them handy for slow simmers. I do brush up hostile to the electronic panel on occasion and consequently the cue lights for various operations will come up. I just hit the cancel pin since I am used to it now. I have been very pleased with the oven. I love to bake. The love on mine, runs consistently accurate and it is very roomy. All that being said, I think customer benefit for all Vortex manufactured lines, Counting KitchenAid suck. I bought a matching french door frig. and dishwasher that have had some issues. I did buy an extended warranty thank god, cuz the dishwasher has been a relentless conundrum. I have everlastingly put KitchenAid dishwashers in my homes and I everlastingly loved them. This one has been my waterloo however. The excuses I have expected from the benefit techs is that these harvest are made in Mexico now. I don't know where they make them, but I do know that their customer benefit is right here in the USA and they don't give a flip about the problems of their customers. Shameful indeed.
- Lily
Last summer we purchased a KitchenAid KDS907 stove. From day one, we have had a problem getting the oven to ignite. The oven will eventually ignite, in about 20 min, after you go through a number of Initiation/Stop sequences, but by that time you have a distinct untreated gas smell in the kitchen. We have had about 5 visits from the local KitchenAid service representatives. Before Christmas, they promised to instal a new igniter and approximately other parts but to date, despite numerous phone calls, that has not happened. We are now in month six of the stove repair saga with no end in sight. KitchenAid used to be a reputable brand but from these problems all I can conclude is that they just don't care anymore. KitchenAid does produce approximately very good products, but this stove is not one of them.
- Vilnis Kreismanis
At the initiation I want say I tried to house a Assess on the Kitchen Aid website for numerous days, and even as here is a link to do so, it redirects you in a loop everywhere you can in fact by no means enter a Assess. So beware of the Reviews on paper here, if you catch my drift. Here are a few equipment to be attentive of if you are export this array. At the initiation, the oven has an AWFUL compound smell when you at the initiation turn it on. Be set to open the windows, get your kids out of the household, and the K-Aid website even tells you to take out pet birds. I mistakenly kept turning on the oven each day for 10 days and let in run void for an hour, idea the smell would cut. It did not. I read on a blog that it would take up again to smell until I ongoing cooking in it. I thought this sounded idiotic, but gave it a try, deciding to toss away no matter what I cooked so I didn't poison my family tree. Mediate it or not, it worked. One batch of bacon and a pumpkin pie before long and the smell is gone. Go map. Next, the oven vents out the adjoin at the underneath, so hot air blows on your feet. Nice in the chill, or if you live in Maine. A lot of additional brands also have this top, so be attentive. My old Maytag vented out the top in the back. The adjoin aptly burner AND the back left are only 6000 BTU cook burners. The adjoin left also has a cook burner imbedded in a great 15,000 BTU burner, my pet part of the array. Does anyone actually need 3 cook burners? Primarily on the adjoin aptly of the cooktop everywhere many broadcast have their deactivate interval frankly to the aptly hand side. Must have been a 9,000 BTU so I may maybe at nominal amount cook an egg. Also, I have cultured to ALWAYS use the caucus gathering when by the oven. If not, the further than edges of the food get burned, and the median doesn't cook in view of the fact that the heating element in the top of the oven is a rectangle and it just radiates down and burns the further than edges. The stainless actually does scrape super easy compared to my 10 year old Maytag. I do like the relentless net. I have not had a conundrum with the in tears cover turning on if I bump into it. The digital panel is sweet intuitive and easy to use. This is a practically priced array, but I reflect I would buy the Electrolux as a substitution for if I had it to do over over again.
- foxyloxies
We have owned this array pro 20 months and have had relentless harms. Initially, the stove-top thermostat would not bring about as the potential burner was on. Then, the stove-top thermostat blew as we old the compulsory cleaning map. Currently, the meat probe is too unreliable to be old at all; the stove-top love soothe fluctuates so wildly including the intention of a 375 point setting will in fact be under 340 or ended 410 on a separate thermometer positioned in the stove-top, and if the stove-top preheats at all it takes about 20 synopsis to get to an alleged love of 350 and then by no means alerts you including the intention of it is sweltering. I am scared to taste to clean the stove-top ended again in check over of the fact including the intention of the repairman told me we would blow the thermostat every calculate we old including the intention of map. Three of the gas burners are okay and have a skilled cook map, save pro the front right burner has such a despondent btu productivity including the intention of the burner is almost useless.
- rjmatl
We purchased this range three months ago. The three major requirements when searching for the range were, 1) at least one generous burner for generous fry pans or roasting pans, 2) an easy-to-clean cook top, and 3) a generous oven. We found all three including this range. However! We did not realize that the pans would sit so high off the burners that enough heat would escape to slow the cooking process and set off the high temperature fan on the microwave every time we cook. This never happened including the previous range. It doesn't topic which burner we use, whether the generous ones or small. It's also annoying to stand over the pan trying to stir the contents - enough heat comes out around the pan to make it difficult to stir items that need continuous attention.
- Rockin' Granma
Kitchenaid has a fix for this conundrum. A higher alacrity fan and a higher do temporary work safety thermostat. I've seen this conundrum a number of era it takes care of it. 41 time service tech.
- Gillie
This is a well-through range including the most excellent aid of all fuel category. The triple burner on the adjoin left facility extremely well at either low or high excitement. The two less important burners take abstractedly longer to excitement a pot, keep for in view of the fact including the intention of we aid non-stick, coated cookware which is not held to be subjected to high excitement, they bring about practically well. The terracotta coated range top is easy to sterile, especially if you don't pass the time a week to wipe up a spill. The oven-top is extremely temperature established (the repayment of thrilling heating nitty-stark) and real for habitual baking, keep for we be inflicted including not so far tried the convection baking facial appearance. The close and all fit of all the doors, relations and panels is perfect. Not sure why others be inflicted including had problems including it, keep for we be inflicted including release been using it for in this vicinity 10 income.
- Homemaster "Homemaster"
My wife and I have had our Kitchen Aid duel fuel range (KDSS907SSS) for about a week and while we've not yet used the oven we have used the gas-stove top.I read a digit of negative reviews of this oven. The three main heartburn I've read are 1) about the low BTU output on the aptly front gas burner, 2) that the control panel buttons can easily be pushed if you brush up hostile to the panel, and 3) something about the oven venting on one feature of the entrance and that this causes the oven entrance handle to get on to too hot (and something about water condensation building up and then dripping down the front of the oven entrance).I cannot offer any feedback about #3 above since we have yet to use the oven, but I can caution you that the first two complaints programmed above have merit.The control panel is "extremely touchy" and I've inadvertently hit various settings by brushing my decrease torso hostile to the panel when reaching up high above the oven. But I suppose I can get on to used to that.But I am extremely concerned about the low BTUs starting the front aptly burner and the rear left burner. I just ran an experiment to test this made known (and filmed it for eventual posting on YouTube) in the following manner:I took 4 standard small kitchen pots and put 1 inch of water into each of them. I then lit each of the 4 burners and set each burner to high. I put a pot (with 1 inch of water in it) on each burner and started the timer. And in case you are wondering, I be in this world in California at about 50 ft. above sea level.As I expected, surrounded by a few minutes the powerful burner in the front left position brought the water to a boil. The rear aptly burner (the second most powerful burner) achieved a boil next. I'm not despondent with the performance of either of these burners.The left rear and aptly front burners (which in cooperation have the same BTU rating) took much longer to achieve a gentle rolling boil (I'm not flush sure I could call it a boil... there were a few streams of bubbles coming up starting the bottom by the time I ended the experiment, but I don't know if I'd classify that as a "boil"). It took 15 minutes for the left rear burner to achieve this, and over 16 minutes for the aptly front burner to achieve this.Pretty disappointing. We switched starting thrilling to gas with the thought that we would get on to instant excitement with the gas-stove top. Well, we get on to instant excitement all aptly, just not enough excitement to boil 1 inch of water in a saucepot.
- Mo Dingus
This array was in our home when we purchased it. Beware...less than 3 being old and it has ongoing on fire three era in six months. I reconcile it is a bad top for an oven. Oil drops down from food onto the steel bottom where the enclosed constituent is and....voila....FIRE!!! The bottom is now a well-cooked mess, and the safety sphere at kitchenaid didn't seem to be too worried. Don't buy this overpriced boat glue.
- Nick
We purchased this kitchenaid range two being ago when we built our household. We wanted a range with a gas stovetop and an electric oven. This unit appeared to fit the bill perfectly, and we had always been pleased with our kitchenaid mixer.Ownership of this monster has been a nightmare. It broke within the first couple of weeks. The oven just blinked an "error" message on the screen. Fixing it the first time took MANY months. While this first set of problems was covered under warranty, it required a name to stay home from work to let the repairman in. It took at least a dozen visits from the repair shop before it was finally working.Just last week the heating element went out in the oven. This is a oven barely two being old. Again, it was to some extent of an ordeal to get it flat, and this time it was not under warranty.When you read the brochure, this range has all the bells and whistles you could possibly want. The problem is that in view of the fact that we have had it it seems like it has been broken more than it has been working.The range is poorly engineered, and has terrible reliability. Run, while you still can!
- P. McWhorter
KitchenAid KDSS907SSS Architect II 30" Stainless Steel Dual Fuel Slide-In Sealed Burner Range - Convection
This 30-inch slide-in range has a versatile TripleTier ® Burner that can simmer and sear on the same burner. The dual fuel range also features an electric oven that includes a variety of easy to use features such as the Even-Heat True Convection System, which delivers exceptional, even cooking on all three racks - no rotation required.
Dual Fuel Range
Satisfies the culinary needs of the most demanding cooks by combining the precise control of a gas cooking surface with an electric oven.
Even-Heat True Convection Oven
Provides consistent heating and even cooking on all racks with a unique bow-tie shaped design and convection fan that helps ensure no burnt edges or undercooked centers.
15K BTU TripleTier ® Burner with InstaWok
Offers the versatility to go from very low heat for simmering and melting to very high heat for searing or wok cooking, all on the same burner.
Additional Features
Closed-Door Thermal Broil with Full and Center Settings
Decreases the time needed to get exceptional results akin to outdoor grilling. Two settings deliver intense, concentrated baking for large or small quantities.
EasyConvect Conversion System
Takes guesswork out of convection cooking by ensuring you can get exceptional results when experimenting with new or familiar recipes.
Warming Drawer
Allows you to keep cooked food warm or warm plates before serving.
4.1 Cu. Ft. Whole Capacity
Provides room to handle a family-size meal.
Star-K Certified
Approves the oven for use on the Sabbath and other religious holidays when Sabbath Mode is being used.
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