Frigidaire FGEF3044KF 30" stainless steel Gallery series electric range

No. 1 in your repertoire: Convection baking

As a seasoned home chef, you're well aware of just how important having the right tools in the kitchen can be. This is especially true when it comes to your kitchen's major tools . . . like your oven. For years, you've admired the evenly browned bread crusts at your favorite local bakery and the evenly baked pasta dishes at the Italian joint downtown. However, you've struggled to achieve similar results at home. Until now. While you still have the option of using the direct heat of bake and broil elements for broiling fish or dishing up crisp pizza crusts, the FGEF3044KF range from Frigidaire brings you wholly distinct method of baking: convection. Convection ovens differ from more traditional ovens because they circulate the heated air in the oven around your dishes. This constant movement of warm air results not only in more even cooking or heating, but also warms food faster by preventing the formation of an insulating layer of cooler air around foods. Even better, the circulation of warm air allows foods to be cooked at lower-than-traditional temperatures. And for immediately successful results, the FGEF3044KF offers automatic convection conversion, instantly adapting traditional cooking times and temperatures for convection baking.

Expand the possibilities

Few things seize your imagination like the prospect of preparing an elaborate, multi-course meal for a large group of friends and family. And few things dampen your spirits like struggling to maximize your oven's range top. Simple though it might seem, having the right combination of burner sizes to match your pans is essential to cooking successfully and efficiently. While most rangetops offer elements of fixed size and number, the FGEF3044KF from Frigidaire offers seven elements in the place of five. How can this be? Two element zones on the FGEF3044KF's surface allow you two choose between two different element sizes to suit your specific needs. While a 2700W element offers 12" and 9" sizes, a 3000W element offers 9" and 6" sizes . . . all great for boiling large pots of water for crab or using high heat to sear multiple cuts of meat. Further, the FGEF3044KF's rage top also offers two 6", 1200W elements for general use such as heating up the kettle, steaming vegetables, or heating a marinara sauce. Finally, a single 100W Keep Warm Zone serves up a low level of heat that's ideal for simmering sauces or melting butter or chocolate. And, when the cooking is over, the upswept smoothtop design can be cleaned with the wipe of a cloth.

Kid friendly

Much to the chagrin of most parents, the vast majority of children are inclined to subsist entirely upon a vary narrow selection of foods. These foods most often include: pizza, chicken nuggets, ketchup, sugary breakfast cereals, and peanut butter sandwiches. Well, at least they're eating. For fast, single-button cooking of two of kids' favorite foods, look to the FGEF3044KF with Pizza and Chicken Nugget buttons. All you — or your kids! — have to do to set the ideal cooking temperature and time for these two foods is press the special buttons located on the range's control panel. Voilà, dinner's served.

Interior design (but not the feng shui kind)

Okay, so we've already discussed the baking prowess offered by the FGEF3044KF's convection baking capabilities, but there's even more to this range's advanced oven design. First, the lower bake element is placed (or "hidden") beneath the oven compartment's floor, protecting the element from accidental spills and dramatically simplifying cleanup. Second, a Power Broil function delivers enhanced broiling power for fast, even broiling results. Third, an innovative rack system not only features a two-piece, dividable rack that allows you to free up more vertical space in half of the oven, but also offers an Effortless oven rack that extends when you open the oven door for easy, safe access to hot dishes. Finally, a Self-Clean cycle generates extreme temperatures within the oven compartment that effectively convert any burnt-on residue into a fine ash that can be easily wiped from the oven once the clean cycle has ended.