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6 Best Gas Rangetops for Cooking Aficionados

by Angela Maple

With the kitchen being the heart of your home, it should have quality cooking appliances. Get the best out of your professional kitchen with a gas rangetop that adds more value to your cooking space. If you want more cooking power, professional features, and reliability in your cooking appliance, try a gas cooktop that provides flame visuals and varies in degrees of heat.

Discover some of our best gas rangetops to cook delicious meals for your family with the list we have compiled for you below!

What You Need to Know About Gas Rangetops

What is a Gas Rangetop?

Like cooktops, rangetops don’t have an oven and can be installed above drawers or atop storage cabinets. A gas rangetop is available in two types of gas — liquid propane and natural gas — and offers varying degrees of heat and flame visuals. They are also very durable, cost-effective, cookware-friendly, and don’t require a warm-up time before cooking.  

Benefits of Gas Rangetop

Gas rangetops have multiple benefits to appeal to buyers in terms of design, performance, and features. Besides these advantages, we have compiled a list of other pluses of this cooking appliance for you to consider.

Pros

  • No warm-up time
  • Cookware-friendly
  • Offers higher BTU power
  • Spacious cooking surface

Best Gas Rangetops: Our Top Picks

Best Overall: Café™ 36" Matte Black Gas Rangetop (CGU366P3TD1)

matte black rangetop with silver knobs

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Consider cooking with our best 36-inch gas rangetop from Café, featuring a commercial-style design and high-performance burners. Revel in the versatile cooktop that offers an arsenal of burners designed to provide the exact amount of heat and control needed for perfectly cooked sauces, meats, and vegetables. Among this powerful collection of burners are a multi-ring burner, two 18,000-BTU power boil burners, and an industry-exclusive Inspiral burner that swirls the flame to heat cookware from center to edge evenly. And finally, for all the days you’ve spent looking at fried rice, pad thai, and udon recipes, you can now make your own on the Inspiral wok grate that contours to this cookware’s shape.

  • Features
    • Inspiral Wok Grate
    • Automatic Electronic Ignition
    • Two 18,000-BTU Burners

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Best Value: Thor Kitchen® Professional 36” Stainless Steel Gas Rangetop (HRT3618U)

gas rangetop with grates and silver knobs

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Sleek. Handsome. Versatile. Economical.  All words that describe your Thor Kitchen gas rangetop that’ll reignite your passion for cooking. One of the best professional rangetops features a beautiful stainless steel finish, heat resistant CSA (Canadian Standards Association) certified ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) controller knobs, and a black porcelain drip pan on the cooktop to catch spilled grease, oils, and juices while cooking. You’ll enjoy cooking, searing, and simmering sauces, steaks, caramelized vegetables using the extra low simmer function and six burners ranging between 12,000 BTUs–18,000 BTUs.

  • Features
    • Automatic Reignition
    • Two-Year Warranty On Parts/Labor
    • CSA Certified ABS Controller Knobs

Best Luxury: Wolf® 48” Pro Style Gas Rangetop (SRT486G)

red knobbed gas rangetop

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Cook with precision and accuracy with Wolf’s luxurious, well-crafted pro-style gas rangetop for a modern and streamlined kitchen design. No longer struggle; safely light your burners with the automatic reignition and flame recognition features to ignite your burners on the first try. Experience infinite control of seven dual-stacked, sealed surface burners in your hands with Wolf’s signature red knobs for a pop of color. Also, enjoy the infrared griddle for a more direct, intense heat and faster cook time when making your famous grilled chicken

  • Features
    • Infrared Griddle
    • Signature Red Control Knobs
    • Flame Recognition

Best 30” Gas Rangetop: KitchenAid® 30” Stainless Steel Gas Rangetop (KCGC500JSS)

stainless steel gas rangetop with griddle in between grates

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Empower your aspiring chef at home with this professional KitchenAid gas rangetop to embrace their creative recipes and flavors. Advance your cooking techniques making delicious meals on delicate and powerful burners as low as 5,000 BTUs and as high as 20,000 BTUs for flavorful caramelized, seared, and sauteed dishes. And try out new foods and recipes with the three-level convertible grates that you can leave in for high-heat frying and grilling, flip for simmering or melting, or remove altogether for using a round-bottom wok for stir fry.

  • Features
    • Two Ultra Power Dual Flame Burners
    • Three-Level Convertible Grates
    • Power Outage Compatible

Best 36” Gas Rangetop: Miele KMR 1134-1 G 36" CleanSteel Gas Rangetop (KMR 1134-1 G)

gas rangetop with continuous grate

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Feel like a professional chef making meals on this 36-inch gas rangetop from Miele designed with a stainless steel finish. Besides this finish, the surface also has a Clean Touch Steel front that’ll keep your rangetop sparkling without having to use special cleaning agents. Sear, melt, and fry on the six burners ranging from 12,500 BTUs to 19,500 BTUs under ComfortClean dishwasher-safe grates that are easy to clean. Also, the backlit QuickStart knobs eliminate the need to press or hold the controls to switch on the burners, which can be frustrating — especially if it takes more than once. And for all the chocolate recipes you’ve wanted to try, use the continuous simmer to achieve even heating with the perfect temperature.

  • Features
    • Clean Touch Steel Front
    • Quickstart Knobs
    • Continuous Simmer

Best 48” Gas Rangetop: Thermador® Professional 48” Gas Rangetop-Stainless Steel (PCG486WD)

stainless steel rangetop with griddle and porcelain cooktop

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Experience unparalleled performance using this boldly designed Thermador gas rangetop that can keep up with your ambitious meals. Practice your cooking techniques with the 18,000 BTU-burners, ExtraLow simmer burners, and the exclusive Star burner for even heating, unsurpassed flame coverage, and precision simmering. Besides high-power performance, quality features, and the professional design of this 48-inch rangetop, the griddle is convertible to a grill, which is perfect for searing steaks indoors on cold days.

  • Features
    • Signature Blue Indicator Lighting
    • Patented Pedestal Star Burners
    • Two Extralow Simmer Burners

Top Product Brands

Wolf

Wolf makes high-end appliances for buyers to embrace every home-cooked meal with a variety of streamlined rangetops. Users can rest assured that each model offers precision temperature control and proven performance with brand-exclusive features no matter the fuel type.

Thermador

This brand designs luxury appliances, offering customizable collections to suit their shoppers’ tastes. Users are guaranteed quality features, defined craftsmanship, empowered designs, and industry-leading innovation with the modern entertainer.

Café

Café produces custom cooking appliances that are distinct by design, combining high performance with counter-worthy aesthetics. Customers will cook like their favorite chefs using Café rangetops, providing precise temperatures, heavy-cast cooking grates, sealed burners, and other impressive features.

 Why Trust Us?

Ever since Spencer’s TV and Appliance opened in 1973, we have spent the last 48 years servicing the Arizona community with the largest inventory at the lowest possible prices for its customers. We make it our mission to exceed customer satisfaction and give each customer a unique experience with our employees that leave them feeling like they are family. If you can’t take our word for it, read our testimonial page to hear from some of our buyers!

Shop Gas Rangetops at Spencer’s TV & Appliance  

Discover perfect gas rangetops that fulfill your grilling, searing, and melting needs for your recipe wish list at Spencer’s TV & Appliance for our best prices! Take a look at some of our best gas rangetops online or visit us in person at one of our 10 appliance showrooms throughout Arizona, including Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and Glendale. Strike gold and harness the power and performance of gas rangetops for your kitchen!