New some info on Garlands home pro range
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infrared broiler but it doesn't say if there's one or two broilers. It also
doesn't say if the oven or oven are self cleaning. In fact, they give very
little info on the ovens! I am down to either the Garland or the Dacor 48".
I've seen the Dacor and have all those spec. It's a great looking stove but it
is quite a bit more expensive than the Garland.
Does anyone on the list have a Garland home pro type range or does anyone know
anything about their ovens.
The Dacor has two self cleaning convection ovens and both ovens have broilers.
The large one is a 20,000 btu infra red broiler and the small one has an
electric broiler. I wish the Garland site and printed material would give out
this information!:-(
I've emailed them but no one has gotten back to me yet so I thought I'd check
the list and see if anyone here has that information.
Thanks!
Regards,
June
Kirk Melby
difficulty tracking down specs on it. Please pass on any information you
get, especially the btu rating of the top burners.
Thank you
Brian Costlow
Kirk Melby <kirk....@lightspeed.wa.com> wrote in article <7b350g$720$1...@brokaw.wa.com>...
Try their website at www.garland-group.com
They have a residential section with PDF files (need Adobe Acrobat reader
or plug-in to view) describing the ranges. The one I looked at had 15,000 Btu
burners.
-- Brian
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has only one broiler - in the large oven. The Dacor ovens are electric and
bigger than the Garland's. Both have a gas IR broiler in the large oven.
There are six extra-large burners on the Dacor vs. eight (or six and a grill
or griddle) on the Garland. The Dacor has many more bells and whistles, many
of which are useful. I like the Garland burners, but I can't tell you
anything about how they compare to the Dacor.
Bob Melvin
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their home page and request that they send you some of their printed sheets.
The problem was that they didn't mention anything about the ovens. I spoke to a
distributor this morning and the ovens are not self cleaning, but the good news
is that they are gas and are convections ovens and you have the option of
turning off the convention and using them as a conventional oven. One of the
reasons I maybe getting this one is that they have a shallower version that is
only under 29" deep which is a consideration for me since I want a 2' center
island and need to save space on the width.
The other range I was considering is the Dacor but they only come with electric
ranges. We live in an area that gets several black out a year. One year it
happened on Thanksgiving and I was very grateful that I had a gas oven for that
25lb bird! Plus, with the potential Y2K problem, I'd feel a lot better with a
total gas range/ovens setup.
I didn't get any price quotes either. There is no local dealer and the
distributor wouldn't quote a price. I got one dealer who said she would call
back and send me some info but she hasn't called back yet. So I have no idea of
what these ranges cost. The Dacor is $7,000 but the others that I have seen
like the 5Star and DCS are quite a bit cheaper. I'm hoping that the Garland is
more in that range. I'm not thrilled about cleaning ovens, but it has
everything else I want. I also like the design of their burner which is
designed like a spoke to evenly heat the pan. Most ranges have a typical round
burner which doesn't look like it would disperse the heat as well as the
Garland burners.
Let me know if you've gotten any quotes on these ranges. What size are you
looking at? I'm looking at the 48" one.
Regards,
June
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the Dacor, or maybe we just had an ill informed sales person. :-(
The Dacor does have those bigger burner plates, but then you have to move a
heavy iron griddle pan around. I like the fact that the Garland has the 6
burners and a separate griddle. I wish someone would make one of these units
with one gas and one electric oven or two gas ovens that are self cleaning. I
don't know why they don't. I had a conventional gas range with a self cleaning
oven, so it certainly is doable.
I can live with the one broiler since I have a small, portable convection oven
with a broiler. It would be rare for me to need more than one broiler any way.
Regards,
June
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Pulp kitchens sells Garland and can give you a price quote:
http://www.pulpkitchen.com/range.html If you want standard cab. depth, look
at Dynasty and Wolf, too. The 36" Dynasty DGRSC-36 is a relatively good deal
at about $3,400. I would have chosen that, except I needed space for huge
pots and pans - hence the massive Garland Pro Classic.
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What's the name of the store selling the 48" Dacor for under $6,000. Dacor
controls the selling price and everyone around here sells it for $7,000.
They'll discount other ranges, but they all say they can't discount the Dacor.
I think I'm going with the Dacor. By the time I add the cost of the 21" back
shelf to the Garland there's very little difference in price between the two.
Also found out that Garlands ovens are smaller, they're not self cleaning and
I'd also have to pay for drop shipping at my front door, which means I'd have
to hire 6 guys to get it into the kitchen -- another expense. Also, the Garland
only has one broiler and the Dacor has two, one electric broiler in the small
oven and a 20,000 BTR infrafred broiler in the large oven; but the biggest
deciding factor for me was the fact that the Garland doesn't have a pilot
light, which means if you power goes out, you can't use the gas ovens anyway!
That was my main consideration with the gas ovens, was that when we get power
outages I'd still be able to cook! My old gas stove had self cleaning ovens and
worked during the power outages. Sometimes things don't improve, they go
backwards! :-(
We had a 4 1/2 power outage one Thanksgiving and I was so grateful that I had a
gas stove and so were my ten guests!
After hearing the stories of putrid smells coming out of the DCS and problems
with Viking burners and others, I'm going to follow my husbands advice and get
the Dacor. I did like those starburst burners on the Garland, though.
This forum has been a great help in getting me to make my decision. I knew
nothing about these ranges when I started my search. Thanks everybody!
Regards,
June
Paul Ferrara
lights any longer. Very wasteful. But you can always use a match or other
type of ligher. Surely they give you an access door to the burners.
Paul
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the Wolfe and Viking ranges.
While I'm here, if you had an unlimited budget for a home pro style range and
hood, which combination would you buy and why?
I keep vacillating on the one I want, mainly because not one has everything I
want, where I want it! :-(
I went back and read some of the archives to 1996 and some people had problems
with the Dacor and worse was that Dacor was unreasonable to deal with. Anyone
can have problems with a product, but it's how the mfgr deals with it that
counts.
Recently people have complained that Vikin has had some electrical
problems.Another person said a dealer said they don't carry the Garland because
the home version is not made up the quality of their commercial unit, and on
and on.
My preference was for gas ovens mainly because we get long power outages once
in a while, but if I can't light the oven because of their electrical setup,
then there's no point in getting a gas oven other than the fact that gas is
cheaper.
With the new technology is gas or electric oven the more even heating?
Warm regards,
June