The bright side of this horrible day, my stove just died.

[AlCzervik]

I was hoping this day would come soon, unfortunately the mutual suicide pact i thought it had with the refrigerator didn't happen but as least i can finally replace this builders grade (elcheapo because we buy in bulk!) piece of crap stove.

[reyd reid reed]

1. Have you found

the stove you want to replace it with?

Ours unexpectedly (right in the middle of fixing the kids' dinner) died back in February...two weeks after we'd replaced the washer (died over the holidays), the dryer (same age as the washer and its death was imminent) and the dishwasher (leaked for about ten years...ever since our youngest slammed the door open until the hinges broke. Ten years of using an old Fisher-Price cash register to hold it open).

Now we've got a purty stove. Almost a shame to cook on it.

Almost.

[AlCzervik]

2. i know the exact one i want but i don't know if i'll actually buy it, i have a folder

of print outs for stoves and refrigerators in anticipation of this day, i always make a list, 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice, yeah i'm fun at parties as well. :-).

The stove i really, really want is more stove than i need but i like it a lot.

[reyd reid reed]

3. If you want it, go for it...

better to have more than you need than less. This way, you just have more possibilities and you never know what's around the corner.

[AlCzervik]

4. that's true, maybe i'd cook more or at least that's what i keep telling myself to justify

buying the one i want. The refrigerator is making all kind of bad noises, one of them is a new noise so i'm totally surprised the stove went first.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. the mutual suicide pact I thought my cooktop oven and refrig had turned out

to be a solo job by the dishwasher LOL

I LOVE my new dishwasher.

I just ordered the refrigerator because we got a surprise sales tax holiday over Mem Day on Energy Star qualified appliances so I ordered the refrigerator of my dreams to replace the 32 year old Harvest Gold side by side

One of my double ovens has been dead for some time. The cooktop and the other oven are still hanging on. I want to replace them with the Jenn Aire 30 inch wide range that has 2 ovens, dual fuel version. When the stove comes in the cabinets are getting replaced so I am holding out on that until I have to do it.

I saved about $175 in sales tax though.

[AlCzervik]

10. my sister has all Jenn air appliances, really nice but the refrigerator fan died

after 2 years, it was under warranty but i was kind of surprised because it was really expensive, the repair guy told her all the fans now are too small and the motors die out quicker. Her fan died when we were at Cape cod so when we got back to her house the smell---oh you cannot imagine and there's my shithead bil, "It smells like a corpse in here, is there some reason you didn't throw the food away" "Oh is that what the smell is?" and he lived with it for 3 days.

the stove i want is a Bosch duel fuel as well, i have Bosch dishwaser and clothes washer and dryer and i love them.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. my dishwasher and new refrigerator are Kenmore. This Kenmore DW is the #1

rated dishwasher w/ Consumer Reports and it was on sale for $200 off for Mother's Day ..I love this DW.

The refrigerator is a French Door, bottom freezer w/water dispenser in the door and icemaker below. I am quite looking forward to it. We are upgrading from a 17.5 cubic foot side by side to 25.4 cubic foot, with bottom freezer. The only JennAir thing I want is this stove. If I did not want the dual fuel I would get the Maytag all gas one. Identical except the overs are gas. It would cost about $700 or $800 more to replace a double wall oven and cook top plus I will gain more counter and storage space w/ this range.

[AlCzervik]

20. the stove is awesome, my sister doesn't cool much but i was dying to try out the convection

oven feature and i did, it works really well and fast.

[AlCzervik]

5. i forgot to ask you, what did you buy?

[reyd reid reed]

16. We bought a

Frigidaire range...kinda like this one:



except all black. Then our countertop microwave really looked silly sitting right next to it, so we bought a black Maytag over-the-range microwave:

http://www.maytag.com/catalog/product.jsp?src=Microwaves&cat=8&prod=136

[AlCzervik]

17. i was just thinking about the microwave/hood combo, that's also going to have to go.

it doesn't do a very good job venting anyhow even though i clean the filters once a week.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. yeah, I decided I don't want the microwave hood combo after my sister had

a fire in hers.

They really don't vent all that well. I am actually not willing to cut corners for the vent hood. I wok cook a lot and my husband has reactive airway syndrome, so when I stir fry w/hot chiles he can't even come in the kitchen until all the fumes have died down; our 1961 vintage "exhaust fan" is a joke and mostly only appears to work for smoke.

[LeftyMom]

6. I've found a couple of real good deals on displays.

My Dad's stove went out and I got him a Whirlpool Gold smoothtop (I hate electric but he doesn't have gas hookups in the kitchen) at Best Buy for $400ish, and a few months later his fridge went and I got him a really nice Maytag side by side for $500 at Lowes. It was almost half off because it had the teeny tiniest scratch on the side and they were pretty overstocked and needed the room.

[AlCzervik]

7. that's a good idea, i bought my washer and dryer at Valley oak in Elk grove and they have many

displays and i've gotten to know the owner a little bit, i should ask her if she'd be willing to sell me the one i want that she's using for a display.

[LeftyMom]

9. Usually there's a lot more wiggle room on them than on boxed stuff.

I know when I was selling appliances we got to mark them down pretty cheap if we needed the space.

When I get my own house, I'm getting one of these: http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/MGR6751BDS.html?mv_pc=fr&cm_mmc=Froogle-_-00278-_-Maytag-_-MGR6751BDS only black, not stainless.

[AlCzervik]

15. my next door neighbor has a stove very similar to that, she loves it especially

during the holidays when she's baking pies. I think everyone's stove has died on my street since all the houses were built at the same time and everybody had the same crappy stove.

[LeftyMom]

18. My Dad's house had an old double oven where the second oven was over the stove

where a microwave usually goes these days. It was fugly, because his house was built in the seventies and it was that lovely harvest gold color, but incredibly convenient.

I'd like something like that, minus the fugliness. And gas. I think this is the closest I'm likely to get.

[DS1]

11. Did it smell was The Rock was cooking?

[AlCzervik]

12. i cook that outside that way if the cops show up i can throw it all in to my neighbors yard.

Fool!

[SPKrazy]

13. Well, er, congrats?

kind of bittersweet, you get to replace it, but you are throwing up and have to spend money too :(

[AlCzervik]

14. yup, it's a real barn burner at my house today. when the stove died i had to take

my daughters food out and move it into the toaster oven which is tiny and the smell, i thought i was going to barf.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. YAY!~!!!!!!!!

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