In the last 12 months I have cooked and baked on four different stoves/ovens. Each has been very different from the others, and the cooking experiences have been challenging.
In Dickinson we had a quite old GE electric oven with a glass stovetop. We decided we couldn’t in good conscience saddle new owners with it. The glass top was scratched and uncleanable. The oven baked really slow and we needed to increase the temperature to get things done. We replaced it with a Bosch electric stove/oven which worked very well. It definitely was a positive selling point for the house.
As soon as I had figured out all the niceties of the new stove we moved to our current home. It had a 15 year old Kenmore gas oven with gas top burners. The previous owners had no problem saddling us with it, even though the control panel shorted out everything we started a top burner when the oven was lit. I didn’t like baking in the gas oven since things singed on the sides of the pan closest to the burners. I struggled baking with it, trying to adjust rack levels and temperatures. This was quite a trick in November and December for Christmas baking.
We finally got a brand new, dual fuel LG oven/stove that I really like. The oven is electric. The stovetop is has gas burners. Saturday night I made a apple pie with a crumble topping and found the the oven must burn hot as the crumble topping and crust got too dark, and I probably have to lower the temperature about 10-15 degrees when I bake. Sigh! I suppose most appliances have their individual quirks, but I am pretty tired of trying to figure all this out.
What would you feel you had to in good conscience, replace in your current home before you sold it? What have been the easiest and most difficult appliances/machines to learn to use?
Trail Baboon 
I learned to use a dishwasher when I was 10 or 11 years old. (Now I’m 74, so do the math and you’ll know how long ago that was). When I left home at 17, that was the end of dishwashers until I retired at 68. They changed during those years. I didn’t.
We bought a house with a 2012 model dishwasher. I treated it like the 1961 model. Eventually, it stopped getting things clean. 2 years ago we replaced it, and were taught how to run it. Were we to be forced or induced to sell this place, that machine is the only thing we’d leave. I’d junk the stove, fridge, washing machine and dryer and let the new owners set things up however they wish.
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i love gas
i have electric for the last 10 years
washr and dryer are strictly utilitarian
stove and fridge are like daily best friendspick your own oven and dishwasher i dont care at all
hot tub sauna steamer now im interested
furnace ac hot water heater big picture makes all the difference. new invention for heated/cooled floors entered my brain this weekend im going to look into
motorcycle that time of year again
cars trucks functional at 200,000 you betcha
a truck used to be priced like a ford or chevy 4 door at $5000 roll up windows. it dawned on them truck people drove trucks because the need trucks and base price switched to 50,000
by the way renee, when chris decides to move on from his truck, im interested. this year of 15 years from now
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I’m not sure if I would change out any of my appliances before selling and your experience backs up my thoughts. I have cooked/baked with gas all my adult life. (My mother had electric in her last home and I didn’t care for it at all.) If I changed out my stove, I would upgrade to a nicer gas range and then what if the new folks preferred electric? I am also a side freezer gal but I know a lot of people like bottom drawer freezers better. That being said, if I were replacing things just for the sale and not for my convenience before a sale, I would probably replace my washer and dryer with an inexpensive, simple set. When I was doing laundry yesterday, I did think about the fact that they are both 35 years old this year!
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With our kitchen remodel we replaced all the old appliances. The old refrigerator was smaller and was showing signs of imminent demise. We liked our 20-year-old Bosch gas range but opted to discontinue gas in the interest of air quality and in anticipation that the trend was away from gas. In its place we installed an induction range with electric oven. We also put in the first dishwasher this kitchen has ever had. I expect prospective buyers would find this all acceptable.
There has been a learning curve with the new appliances; even the refrigerator had to be programmed and had way more features and options than we would ever want or require. That’s the problem with digitally-controlled gear. It’s cheap and easy to add “features” and manufacturers get carried away. I don’t need to connect my refrigerator to my phone.
Not having had a dishwasher for 25 years, we are not accustomed to using one and at any one meal we have so few dishes it’s easier and more immediate just to wash them by hand. It may only get used when we have company.
The induction range is possibly the biggest adjustment. The oven is electric and seems to be hotter than our old gas one but the gas oven may have been under the set temperature by the end. Induction cooking is not entirely intuitive. You don’t have the visual cue of a gas flame or a glowing element. You just have the progressive numbers on the controls. In anticipation of the new range we replaced some of our cookware with induction compliant ones and everything works. Induction seems faster. I had never had a glass-top range. The surface seems vulnerable to abrasion and I didn’t like the way pans skate around on the slippery surface. Fortunately, with induction one can get a silicone sheet that sits on the glass and cushions it. Counter-intuitively as it seems, you can cook right through it and pans stay put.
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