Help!

Yes, our electric cooktop has packed it in.  Two burners gone, and even with the limited amount of cooking we do around here, this isn't going to work.

We're thinking of switching to a gas cooktop.  Any suggestions?  What's your experience?  Which manufacturers are best?  We need a 30" cooktop, and we're not in the Viking league. 

By the way, I wouldn't wish Bosch appliances on my worst enemy.  We have a Bosch dishwasher that blew its motherboard three weeks after the warranty expired, and it's required several repair sessions. 

The Bosch cooktop hasn't been much better: the halogen burner stopped working after a few years, and now this.  (Meanwhile, the Whirlpool oven we bought at the same time has never required a  single call to the repairman.)

 

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Comic relief:  Two old people on an Easter Day hike (that's what you do when you're not a believer, or maybe even if you are):

 

 

 

 

And now what are they doing?

 

 

 

Why, looking at and taking a picture of a Painted Lady butterfly, of which there were scads patrolling in the Berkeley hills.  Four species of butterflies, total.

 

 

 

A view out the Golden Gate.