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With the rise of electric cooktops in the 1980s, utility and gas companies have been allegedly waging an information war to convince us that gas cooktops are better. Though gas cooktops are certainly not the safest option, their advantages, for many, are worthwhile. For the home chefs in the middle of a major kitchen remodel or those who are simply fed up with ancient only-two-working-burners-and-smells-sorta-suspicious cooktops, a new gas cooktop can be a hot choice.

While electric cooktops are no longer the cheap, inefficient devices from the late 1980s, and induction cooktops can now cook your food using magnetic energy, those with pre-installed gas lines and the desire for more control over temperature will likely still prefer gas.

So if you’re interested in installing a new gas stove in your home, we’ve put together a top 10 list of the best gas cooktops of 2022. Advertisement THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT EDITORIAL CONTENT. Please note that we do receive compensation for any products you buy or sign up to via this advertisement, and that compensation impacts the ranking and placement of any offers listed herein. We do not present information about every offer available. The information and savings numbers depicted above are for demonstration purposes only, and your results may vary. Compare Quotes From Top-rated Wood, Pellet & Gas Stove Installers Free, No-commitment Estimates Find an Installer

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Samsung 36-Inch Gas Cooktop With 22K BTU Dual Power Burner

This powerful, 22,000 BTU, Samsung 36-Inch Gas Cooktop tops our list because of its great pricing and excellent consumer ratings. With five gas burners and an impressive array of smart features, this gas cooktop can meet any cooking challenge. The Samsung Smart Gas Cooktops come in both traditional stainless steel and fingerprint-resistant black stainless steel so it can accent nearly any kitchen design. With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, this smart cooktop can automatically turn on your range hood when the burners are on, and be controlled and monitored via your smartphone so you’ll never leave home with a burner still burning.

Samsung 30-Inch Smart Gas Cooktop With 22K BTU Dual Power Burner in Stainless Steel

The Samsung 30-Inch Smart Gas Cooktop is almost exactly the same as the 36-Inch model above, but is designed to fit in a 30-inch space instead of a 36-inch space. This smaller model still features the same powerful, 22,000 BTU center brass burner, capable of both a rapid boil and temperature precise simmering.

The control knobs are easy to read and use and include a back-lit illumination so you can easily tell if the burners are on or off from the other side of the kitchen. This Samsung 30-inch smart cooktop also features the removable griddle and the custom wok grate so you can easily make pancakes and stir-fry with a quick attachment swap.

Samsung 30-Inch Gas Cooktop in Stainless Steel with Four Burners

This is Samsung’s 30-inch Gas Cooktop without the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity and other “smart” features listed above. This four-burner cooktop is powerful, easy to use and easy to clean with sealed burners designed to make clean-up as easy as possible. Featuring easy-to-reach, easy-to-read front knob controls and a single, continuous cast iron grate, the cooktop is sturdy and sleek.

Though this gas cooktop is not as “intelligent,” nor packed with as many smart features as its Samsung siblings, the excellent low sales price is not beat by any other gas cooktop on our list.

Monogram 30-Inch Gas Cooktop with Four Sealed Burners and Electronic Ignition

Monogram’s 30-Inch Gas Cooktop features five powerful sealed burners. Each burner’s flexible range from low simmer to high boil is augmented with a center burner’s blazing maximum of 20,000 BTUs. Monogram’s Gas Cooktop also includes an excellent 24-month warranty, meaning you can have peace of mind for two years while you break this stove in.

The cooktop includes back-lit stainless steel control knobs which show when burners are operational and a heavy-duty continuous grate for even cooking and easy cleaning. The Monogram cooktop would rank higher on our list, but as it is the most expensive and lacks the smart features and other accessories many other options have, it misses a spot on the winners’ podium.

Thermador 36-Inch Gas Cooktop with Five Star® Burners, Star-K Compliant

Don’t let the Thermador 36-Inch Gas Cooktop’s standard appearance fool you; its high ratings and unique design set it apart from much of its competition. Most notably, Thermador’s patented star burners use a five-point design to offer better flame distribution than a traditional round burner. The Thermador cooktop also features low precision settings for simmering, melting and cooking sauces without burning.

ZLINE 30-Inch Porcelain Gas Stovetop in DuraSnow®

ZLINE offers significantly more affordable gas ranges than the competition, but stands behind its products as having the “best quality-to-price ratio in the industry”. ZLINE’s 30-Inch Porcelain Gas Stovetop features four hand-crafted Italian burners which easily detach to make clean-up a more straightforward process. The stovetop surface is made of a single-piece high-gloss black scratch-resistant porcelain and has no crevices to hold residues.

This ZLINE cooktop also has front-mounted control knobs meaning you don’t have to worry about bumping the controls while moving pans around on top of your stove.

Frigidaire Gallery 30-Inch Five Burners Stainless Steel Gas Cooktop

The elegant Frigidaire Gallery 30-Inch Five Burner Gas Cooktop features easy-to-use, easy-to-read front-facing angled controls which won’t get in the way of moving pots and pans like top-facing knobs, but also can’t be accidentally bumped by a person walking by. When it comes to cleaning, Frigidaire’s “SpillSafe” design protects the area around the burner from spills and its single-piece cast iron grate is dishwasher safe.

Unfortunately, Frigidaire’s consumer ratings are low, apparently due to issues with easily-broken pieces and poor customer service.

Café 36-Inch Gas Cooktop in Stainless Steel with 18,000 BTU Burner

A simple, easy-to-use and moderately affordable cooktop, Café’s 36-Inch Gas Cooktop features five versatile burners, each with different BTU heat ratings so you can dial in both a rapid boil and gently simmer at the same time. The stainless steel control knobs are dishwasher safe, have an LED backlight to help indicate when burners are operating and come in four brushed metal colors designed to complement any kitchen. Unfortunately, this cooktop isn’t reported to be particularly powerful, so it may not be right for those nearing “home restaurant” status.

Café 30-Inch Gas Cooktop in Stainless Steel with 18,000 BTU Burner

The Café 30-Inch Gas Cooktop shares most features with Café’s 36-Inch model, only with the smaller 30-inch width. Like its larger sibling, this cooktop features five versatile sealed burners to ease cleanup and provide fine control. This cooktop offers the same stainless steel control knobs in four brushed metal colors to match any kitchen design and an optional extra gas control knob for safety.

ZLINE 36-Inch Porcelain Gas Stovetop in Stainless Steel

The larger version of the ZLINE stovetop featured above, this ZLINE 36-Inch Porcelain Gas Stovetop comes with six hand-crafted Italian burners made of a premium metal alloy for clean-burning. The one-piece porcelain cooktop means no crevices or gaps will catch residue, and a scratch-resistant surface makes clean-up an easy process. With this larger model, ZLINE offers another beautifully-designed product at a fraction of the cost of its competitors.

Determining which cooktop is best suited for your home can be a difficult process. For many of us, a cooktop is something we use every day, so finding the right one is critical. We recommend you first confirm a gas cooktop offers the best choice for your home. Electric or induction models may be better suited to your needs depending on how often you cook, the level of safety you’d like to have and what sort of control you may need.

You should also consider the size of the cooktop and number of burners, as well as the cost and hassle of maintenance and cleaning. The availability of any smart features is a final consideration to make, but probably shouldn’t drive your decision-making process.

Heating technology is the first and most important choice you’ll make when deciding what kind of cooktop you want. Gas is one of three main options: gas, radiant electric or induction.

Radiant electric cooktops use electricity to heat the surface of the cooktop which, in turn, heats your pots and pans. Upsides to electric cooktops include the lack of gas-related risks, including leaks. Though the technology has certainly improved, radiant electric cooktops are not as precise with heating control and take more time to warm up and cool down.

Induction cooktops work similarly but instead of heating the cooking surface, they actually heat the pot or pan itself using magnetic energy created by running electricity through a copper coil beneath the cooktop surface. Induction cooktops are often quite expensive, but are considered one of the safest and most efficient methods of cooking due to the minimal heat exchange anywhere except the pot or pan itself.

Gas cooktops are especially great for those looking for excellent, fine control over cooking temperatures. Popular among professional chefs, gas cooktops allow precise increments of heat control that respond instantaneously, unlike an electric surface that has to cool down or heat up before transferring that energy to the pot. Gas cooktops aren’t perfect: they are much messier and harder to clean because of the large protective grates and the burners to clean around. An open flame is much more dangerous than a hot surface and gas always includes a leak risk. Gas cooktops will continue to work even in the case of a power outage.

Once you’ve chosen the type of cooktop best suited for your kitchen, you will need to determine what size best fits your kitchen and the number of burners you would like. All the gas cooktops on this list are 30 or 36 inches—the most common standard sizes—but cooktops can come in a wide variety of sizes to suit your home and kitchen.

The number of burners can be a key consideration as well. While most cooktops feature four or five burners, some have as many as six. Additionally, while five or six burners may seem great, more burners may be less-desirable on a smaller cooktop because the space between burners can be severely cramped. You should pay special attention to the size of cookware you own or want and how it may best fit on a stovetop with four, five or even six burners.

A third key consideration you should make when choosing the best gas cooktop for your home is the potential maintenance, regular cleaning work and extra costs involved with using your cooktop. Since cooktops are used nearly every day, often multiple times a day, having a well-functioning cooktop with  minimal maintenance requirements is important. Ensuring it’s easy to clean can save significant time and hassle. While many companies brag about how easy to clean their cooktops are, you should check customer reviews before purchasing to read how customers actually feel about these claims.

On top of that, while purchasing a high-end Italian gas stove may mean a significantly higher quality product, if something does go wrong, maintenance costs associated with shipping parts from across the ocean if necessary may cause a huge headache down the road. Your cooktop should last for years to come, so choosing a company with a great history of customer support ratings can provide some assurance that you won’t have to replace your entire cooktop when a single part breaks.

One final factor to consider when choosing the best gas cooktop for your kitchen is the smart features  you want. Gas cooktops have fewer smart features than electric or induction cooktops but many still offer options you may want to consider. For example, some gas stove tops feature Wi-Fi-controlled monitoring so you can turn burners off from your phone. Samsung’s gas stovetops are Bluetooth-enabled and can communicate with Samsung range hoods to turn ventilation fans on and off with the burners.

Once you’ve determined which important features you are looking for in your gas cooktop, you will need to consider a few key factors about each gas cooktop that you review. The cost, the customer and company reviews and the warranty are the focus upon which we weighed our top 10 list, and should be the first factors you consider when choosing your own gas cooktop.

Gas cooktops can range in price quite a bit depending on the size, number of burners, features available and the overall quality of the craftsmanship. The average price of a gas cooktop is between $1,000 and $2,500, but keep in mind that with a lower price may come significantly lower quality construction materials and less-attentive customer support. You can easily pay for an entirely new unit with some maintenance costs.

Speaking of companies’ reputations, it is important to consider products from companies with good, consistent customer reviews—both of the company and of the product itself. A cooktop is a daily use appliance and, with gas cooktops especially, a classic way to burn a house down. Make certain the quality lives up to the standard that you need.

We recommend looking at two, three and four-star reviews as these reviews are often the most honest about products, while one and five-star reviews may come from more subjective experiences. You can also research companies on the Better Business Bureau or other consumer reporting websites to learn more about their business practices.

An important factor to look for in a gas cooktop is the available warranties and protection plans the company and/or a third-party seller may offer. While most cooktops on our list have a 12-month warranty, some have a longer 24-month warranty and others offer paid protection plans which may offer longer-term and more comprehensive coverage to protect your appliance in the long term. Advertisement THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT EDITORIAL CONTENT. Please note that we do receive compensation for any products you buy or sign up to via this advertisement, and that compensation impacts the ranking and placement of any offers listed herein. We do not present information about every offer available. The information and savings numbers depicted above are for demonstration purposes only, and your results may vary. Compare Quotes From Top-rated Wood, Pellet & Gas Stove Installers Free, No-commitment Estimates Find an Installer

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To determine the best gas cooktop ranking, the Forbes Home Improvement editorial team analyzed third-party data on over 60 products. Each product’s star rating is determined by evaluating a variety of metrics, including:

BTUs, or British Thermal Units, measure heat energy. Though the unit is confusingly named and somewhat outdated, understand that the higher BTU rating, the more heat you can achieve with each burner—often resulting in a physically bigger flame.

According to the United States EPA, gas cooktops release between 50% and 400% more NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), a dangerous pollutant, especially to more vulnerable people. On top of the release of dangerous emissions, gas stove tops feature an open flame which can be dangerous for children, pets and others.

A gas cooktop offers much more precise control over the level of flame and adjusts quickly to changes in cooking temperature since the flow of gas can change instantly. Unfortunately, gas cooktops can be much more dangerous than electric cooktops because of both the open flame and the emissions of NO2 and other chemicals.

The easiest cooktop to clean is probably an induction cooktop. With only one smooth surface that does not get very hot, spills can be wiped up as they happen and won’t burn-in. An electric cooktop has the same smooth surface, but gets extremely hot and may quickly burn any spills or may be too hot to clean. Gas cooktops have many crevices and hard-to-reach places that usually can’t be cleaned until cooking is done and everything has cooled off.

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