Every month a different employee at the Appliance Center selects our featured product “Pick of the Month”.

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So you’ve bought your new (propane) grill and someone says – “ah, just call up the gas company and they’ll sell you a conversion kit”. And you want to, because you have that new natural gas hook-up right there on your patio and it would so convenient and you won’t have to worry about running out of propane and….

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We don’t sell vent free fireplaces at The Appliance Center.  We do, however, get asked about them.

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2012 brings some changes to the popular Energy Trust rebate programs – so here’s the latest.

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It’s now Oregon law (April 1, 2011) that if you are building or remodeling and you take out a permit, you must install a Carbon Monoxide Alarm.

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Outdoor grilling season is upon us so clear the deck and celebrate with a new grill!  When you’re shopping for a new grill, look for one made with quality materials that will last for a long time (and stay out of the landfill for a long time).

We have great brands like Broilmaster, Napoleon, Broil King, Evo, Lynx and Twin Eagles.  It is important to buy as locally as possible.  We offer a great selection of North American made grills. 

Got your steaks yet?  How about your veggies?  We encourage you to buy locally grown, “sustainable grillable” foods as well.  Your local farmers market is a great place to start.

 Watch the YouTube video on our grilling sustainability message. 

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I can usually hear the panic in the caller’s voice.  “It came out of nowhere and my fireplace isn’t even on!  And then it happened again a few minutes later!  You’ve got to get out here right away!!”

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Cooking with gas

Come on, you know you wanna….Ever thought about all those restaurant chefs busy tossing, flipping, stirring over those big beefy restaurant burners?  It’s the control that cooking with gas gives them – hot is hot, off is off….and all the temperatures in between.

While you may not want the hassle of trying to install a true restaurant range in your kitchen (can you say structure reinforcement, completely non-combustible walls and surfaces, massive venting?) many of today’s gas ranges come pretty close to commercial strength.

With gas, you’ll want at least one range burner 12-thousand BTUs or better.  It’s not unusual to find burners capable of 15-thousand, or 18-thousand BTUs or even higher.  For some folks, one of the biggest knocks against cooking on gas is you can’t turn the burner low enough…many ranges now have low, low, low simmer burners.

30″ is the standard size for ranges, but with many of the premier manufacturers, 36″, 48″ and even 60″ ranges are possible with a number of different burner configurations possible.  You could get a griddle, a grill or even a step-top where the burners are on two different levels.

All ranges require ventilation these days and we sell vent hoods from Broan and Vent-a-Hood that will cover just about any need.  If you’ve never had a gas range, and you need an installer, we can help with that, too.

Check out this link to a video and great recipe for cooking mushroom chicken on the Dacor range

Check out this link to a You Tube video of Pancakes on the gas Dacor range

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