I want to know what you Cake Central folks would recomend I look for if/when I were to buy a new range for my kitchen. I want to buy something that will work best for my cakes.

I just last year bought a Samsung range...it has a flat cooktop (electric) but the best part is it has three racks, and its actually remarkably good about enough circulation to bake everything pretty well with something on all three racks.

It has convection but I do NOT use it for the cakes, I find it browns the tops a bit too fast and dries them a bit...but it works great for cooking dinner or whatever.

Anyway it has alot of great cooking functions and the oven is nice.

My only complaint at ALL about the oven is that because it has hidden bottom elements, anything that drips to the bottom seems to smoke excessively, so if anything overflows at all you HAVE to pretty much stop and scrape it up immediately or it will smoke you out! But once I found that out I rarely have a problem..if I think I'm going to bake something messy, I put foil on the bottom rack.

There are models with two racks and models with three racks...I bought the model with two and purchased an extra rack seperately because it was cheaper! And they were the same interior size. Which actually Samsung and LG both boast the largest oven capacity in the industry, at least last year when I bought mine....its nice and wide and deep inside.

Anyway I love it.

Thank you ! Now I can start my wish list!

convection.........................Love it

Yeah the convection does not work well on some of my cakes, it seems like the fans brown the tops too quickly.

However the regular oven does work great, and the oven seems to circulate air well enough without the convection to bake everything pretty well. The only thing I do is sometimes try to switch the bottom and top shelves over halfway through baking, if the oven is stuffed full.

I love that its wider inside than most ovens so I can fit more side by side too!

Does yours smoke really badly when you drip something on the bottom? haha.

I bought a GE range, its not convection, but it is awesome. I can put 2 6", 2 8", and 2 10" cakes in it at the same time and they still cook perfectly even. Its an extra large oven with flat top. It came from Lowes I think it was around 5-600$.

Lowe's is the BEST. At the time I got mine they didn't have the Samsung so I got mine at Best Buy but any other appliance I will get at Lowe's. Their extended warranty and their customer service are far above any of the competition.

I got a washer/dryer combo from Lowe's and after 6 months the dryer messed up (GE actually...not impressed...haha...but all appliances are different!) and when the repair guys came out, they were like "Your washer and dryer do not have serial number stickers on them! We can't fix it!" Ugh. So Lowe's gave us a brand new matching set, no questions asked.

I will always buy appliances from them, from now on! We got a fridge from them too and their 5 year comprehensive warranty was dirt cheap compared to other places.

ttehan4, what size is your GE?

I'll go upstairs and look for a model or something.

Thanks ttehan!