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[SeaMaiden]

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@Eileen in Virginia wrote:

If you're going to replace it with another electric range with a ceramic cooktop, get a black cooktop, even if it doesn't match anything else in your kitchen. I wish I'd done this when we replaced our coil electric cooktop. The lighter ones are extremely difficult to keep clean. Good luck!

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@Eileen in Virginia  @jlkz   I I just want coil burners....that way all my old pots and pans will work on them

[Fressa]

SeaMaiden--I recently went thru the similiar situation last year. My stove came with the house and that was 28 years old. I like to keep appliances simple and easy to clean. I also needed it to be in the inventory so I wasn't waiting on that problem. That really slimmed down the choices which was okay with me. I found that the indenpent appliance store had sales and in warehouse stoves ready for delivery. This is where I purchased mine. 

Some of the big box stores have lots of sales but look on the website for "in stock" items. You can usually pick up within the week. 

One item that I was surprised by is the quality of the oven racks. Some of them are very light weight and stick while sliding out. I made my decision between models based on the stronger oven racks. 

Good luck. 

[Meowingkitty]

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@amyb wrote:

@Meowingkitty Encouraging, though I don't know where you are. I'm in CT, everything is high here. And depending what it is...my neighbor just cancelled a window order she had in since March 2022...it first came in damaged in July, and replacement still hadn't come now. She's going to start over in spring with a different mfr.

Haven't shopped again recently...don't know what I'll find...but hoping it's better than I expect. I mostly want fairer pricing, don't care as much about deliveries...especially now since I don't even want the disruption until after the holidays. 

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I'm in Arizona. We pretty much have a lot of everything. No shortages even during the pandemic of anything here. At least not what I've found. 

[Enufstuff]

@rockygems123   About 50 years ago, when ceramic top stoves first came out, I got a Harvest Gold Kenmore stove with white cook top.

   I absolutely loved it. I didn't find it hard to keep clean. Of course you had to wait until stove top cooled, before cleaning

any spills on the burner areas.

   I have bought two more stoves with smooth cook tops and have never seen white again, since the 70's. The one I bought about a year ago has a black top, like all the rest that I have seen in recent years.

  I really liked the white top  and would have liked to have gotten another one in white.

[Snowpuppy]

So for those who are budget conscious, why not try Habitat Restore, FB Marketplace, Craigslist or NextDoor?

I picked up a brand new in box retro sink at a Restore type of shop. Habitat offers pick up service here, you may find someone who will deliver and install if you inquire.

I bought new in box 2nd quality Mannington flooring on CL. Was enough for a 3rd bedroom used as office flooring. Marked as 2nd quality, I couldn't find anything wrong with it.

If you need installatìon services, try your local real hardware store and ask if they have contractor referrals. I'm so done with Big Box we know nothing stores.

[chrystaltree]

You never bake anything? Maybe that's why that stove lasted so long, it was only being half used for 42 years. I don't know what you are dreading. The salesperson isn't going torture you...lol.   

[Snowpuppy]

I forgot to ask the obvious......have you tried to replace just the elements?  I know you said the wiring was worn out? They shouldn't be wired but they do burn out.

There are two basic styles of element.  Both pop out, no tools needed. Try Amazon if you're armed with Make and Model.

[Kachina624]

@SeaMaiden    I replaced my stove in 2010.  Its a plain Jane model but does have a glass top.  It is such a joy to clean after the coil burner model and all my pots and pans worked just fine.  When not in used, my stove provides much-needed workspace too.  I would never go back to a coil burner stove.

[Kachina624]

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@rockygems123 wrote:

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@Eileen in Virginia wrote:

If you're going to replace it with another electric range with a ceramic cooktop, get a black cooktop, even if it doesn't match anything else in your kitchen. I wish I'd done this when we replaced our coil electric cooktop. The lighter ones are extremely difficult to keep clean. Good luck!

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@Eileen in Virginia 

Thought the glass cooktops only came in black. What is the lighter color?  Thanks for the info.

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@rockygems123    My mother's stove had a light gray glass top.  It was pretty much a mess but she was legally blind and I think she did not see spills and clean them adequately.  I saw gray tops when I shopped for my stove but avoided them.

[CatsyCline]

we have a glass cooktop and DH fusses with it. He wanted it but all he does is boil water for tea .   i don't like the coils. 

@SeaMaiden   how do you cook a Turkey?