Are you in the middle of a remodel or purchasing a luxury pre-owned kitchen? Maybe you’re just shopping for the best stove or cooktop for your existing kitchen, but whatever your need is, you may be overwhelmed with all the choices out there. Worry no more, as we’ve identified the best stoves and cooktops on the market, and evaluated them in ten distinct categories.

Best Gas Cooktop - GE Gas Cooktop with Five Burners

When you cook on a stove with five burners you sometimes wonder how you ever did it with four. Some cooks like electric cooktops because they’re typically flat, making it easy to shift pots and pans on and off the heat. While this cooktop features cast-iron grates, it’s continuous, giving you the same effect as if it were flat, making it great for large cookware. And… the grates are dishwasher safe!

This GE stove comes with a built-in oven, and retails in the neighborhood of $1,000. The GE cooktop is mostly for people who love to cook, as each burner has different temperature output, and doesn’t have fancy controls, which is just like the cooktops of the pros.

Best Electric Cooktop - GE Electric Range with Self-Cleaning Oven

Electric cooktops aren’t generally favored by professional cooks, but they are decidedly more family friendly. The flat surface makes it very easy to clean, and is ultimately more stable for pots and pans. It’s also family friendly because it’s available in fingerprint resistant slate, but also black or stainless steel.

It’s nice to be able to get stainless steel products for a good price, and this GE electric cooktop retails for a little over $600. The best part about this product is the adjustable burners that can stretch and shrink depending on the size of your pot or pan. Just don’t use iron cookware, as they don’t hold up well on glass surfaces.

Best Induction Cooktop - GE Profile Stove and Electric Induction Cooktop

Induction burners are a highly coveted technology these days, and that’s because someone really smart figured out that if you create an electromagnetic field below the glass cooktop, the heat is drawn to the bottom of the metal cookware directly. For us laypeople, that means that not only does it heat up faster, but you can control the temperature to a single degree.

Controls are digital, and since this stove has wi-fi connectivity, it’s perfect for a 21st century home. This high-tech GE Profile stove will cost you, as it retails in the neighborhood of $2000. But consumer reviews are mainly positive, making it worth it if you can afford it.

Best Tech Stove - Miele HR 1934-2 G

This cooking surface seems like it’s right out of the Jetsons. It features an M-touchscreen that is extremely user-friendly, and because it has wireless controls, you could potentially cook an entire meal with one touch of a button. As far as actual cooking goes, this stove has six cooking zones, and three of them are capable of 19,000 BTUs, which is considered high.

This stove will cost you a pretty penny, as they retail in the neighborhood of $10,000. While we like the cooktop, the oven that comes with it is also worth mentioning, as it has a water hookup that can release steam into the oven, allowing bakers to create bakery quality bread.

Best Budget Stove - GE Electric Range with Self-Cleaning Oven

After that last shocking price tag, we thought we’d come back to earth with the best budget stove on the market. We hate to mention a product twice but we have to credit where it’s due, as the GE Electric cooktop and range is the best bang for buck on the market.

At just over $600, it’s very affordable. The oven is a nice addition too, as it’s self-cleaning, it’s big and features a top mounted broiler, which are rare for this price range. The only drawback is that it doesn't have a convection feature, so that may cost a couple of minutes of cooking time on roasts and casseroles.

Best High-End Stove - Thor Kitchen Professional Gas Range

This high-end stove has everything you want in a stove. With a continuous cast-iron grate that’s 30 inches, this five-burner gas range includes a super burner with cooking power capacity of 18,000 BTU. It’s a beautiful stainless steel product that features black burner control knobs that are both professional and good looking.

This Thor high-end stove retails in the neighborhood of $1900, and anyone who can afford this model will be happy to have it in their home. The oven that is attached is also a nice touch, as it’s big, has a convection feature and has a stainless steel interior, making it very easy to clean.

Most Reliable Stove - GE Profile Stove PGS960YPFS

The GE Profile stoves are some of the best on the market, and this model is different from her sister GE Profile stove that we featured for Best Induction Cooktop. This GE Profile stove has a touchscreen LED display and stainless steel knobs that are heavy duty with great design.

The GE Profile Stove PGS960YPFS retails for about $3,000 and is worth it because consumer reviews show that it is extremely reliable and doesn’t break as often as other brands. It’s also great for cooking, since this GE Profile Stove features five burners, including a tri-ring burner with 21,000 BTUs and a reversible cast iron grill top.

Best Slide-in Stove - Samsung NX60T8711SS

If you’re in the middle of a kitchen remodel or are purchasing a luxury pre-owned kitchen and are tight on space, then this Wolf stove is the one for you. The 30-inch range makes it a four burner cooktop, but it still packs plenty of punch because the burners put out 20,000, 18,000, 15,000 and 9,200 BTUs.

Wolf ranges are expensive, as they offer professional quality with some additional bells and whistles. This range retails at over $7,000, but it’s got everything you need with a stainless steel design, unique red knobs and the combination of both high output and a simmer setting that can go as low as just 300 BTUs.

Best Overall Stove - GE Profile Stoves

After comparing consumer reviews on all cooktops and stoves, and the fact that the GE Profile Stove won two of our categories is a clear sign that it’s a winner. GE Profile Stoves come in many different sizes and come with a GE guarantee that the stove will fit anywhere.

The stove is also smart and efficient, since it detects the size of pans so you don’t have to worry about using small pans on big burners, or vice-versa. That means this stove can also adjust to bigger cooking surfaces and will also shut off if it detects that a pan has been taken off the cooktop.

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