Like a Recipe Perfected From Scratch, The All-New GE Monogram Professional Ranges and Rangetops are Todays Benchmarks of Culinary Innovation
Louisville, KY – Imagine you had the time to create a product from scratch, to start with a clean sheet of paper, to consider every detail based on input from consumers as well as designers. That’s exactly the approach GE followed when creating its new line of Monogram® Professional rangetops and dual-fuel ranges – designed to serve as the new culinary benchmark for the at-home chef.
“Throughout this process, we’ve built upon GE’s 100-year history of cooking innovation to create a new line of products that offers the best in terms of cooking power, capacity, performance, and design,” said Andrew Spanyer, Monogram Cooking Product Manager. “This is an authentic cooking machine for authentic cooks, who cook for the pleasure of sharing their love of food.”
The Rangetop
Offering up to 126,000 BTUs of total cooking power, the rangetop delivers a full spectrum of performance capabilities and versatility. Dual-flame stacked burners provide a full range of cooking performance, from a variable low simmer of 140-195 degrees F, to a high output of 18,000 BTUs, and everything in between. The new stainless steel and aluminum clad griddle offers 18,000 BTUs (natural gas) of cooking power, allowing fast and consistent heating across the entire cooking surface. An adjustable output 14,000 BTU ceramic infrared grill is also available.
The Ovens
Beneath the powerful gas rangetop are two fully functional, self-cleaning, European reverse-air convection ovens that offer world-class capacity and performance.
Capacity. The large caterers’ oven is uniquely sized to accommodate a full-size 18-inch by 26-inch caterer’s sheet pan. In fact, it can handle three! The second oven – the smaller everyday oven – easily handles 9-by-13-inch casserole dishes.
Extraordinary Baking Performance. Both ovens feature the Monogram baking system, which combines European reverse-air convection and six heating elements for superior baking results. This system is paired with precision electronic controls to optimize and control the heating elements during pre-heating and baking for superb results.
Each oven is also complete with full-extension, self-clean racks that are designed to stay in during the self-clean cycle.
Design & “Touchpoint” Innovation
From the refinement of the controls to the bull-nose task lighting, Monogram designers have left the past behind and approached all design elements with a new perspective to reflect today’s design aesthetic.
Illuminating the control knobs are unexpected LED task lights under the bull-nose that provide a functional – and theatrical – touch. This same attention to detail is reflected in the cooking temperature and time displays, which make controls easy to read.
Heavy-duty, counter-balanced oven doors are designed to hold-open at any desired angle, with a slight pull of the stainless steel handles.
A key element of this design is the 304-grade stainless steel construction, which combines precision machining with meticulous hand finishing to create a refined appearance, with no exposed seams or screws.
When it all comes together, the new line of Monogram Professional ranges and rangetops will be available in the Fall of 2008, which will mark just one more milestone in GE’s 100-year history of cooking innovation.
The GE Monogram 48-inch professional dual-fuel range will be available in natural gas or liquid propane models and will be backed by a 2-year limited warranty (see written warranty for details). The all-new collection will also include 36-inch and 30-inch ranges and 48-inch and 36-inch rangetops.
For details on the complete line of Monogram professional cooking appliances, please visit www.monogram.com
GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, Profile™ GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater™ Reveal®, Edison™ and Energy Smart™ consumer brands, and Entellisys™ industrial brand. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.
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