Stainless Steel 30'' 5-Burner Gas Cooktop KCGS550ESS

30'' 5-Burner Gas Cooktop

Model: KCGS550ESS

Color: Stainless Steel

MSRP: $1,399.00

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30'' 5-Burner Gas Cooktop

This 30-inch gas cooktop provides exceptional power with five individual burners, including a powerful 17K BTU Dual Ring Burner. For added versatility, the 6K BTU Even-Heat™ Simmer Burner creates ideal conditions to melt without scorching. The CookShield Finish protects the cooktop against stains that may occur due to high-temperature cooking and makes it easy to wipe clean without harsh chemicals.

Features

17K BTU Professional Dual Ring Burner

Allows you to go from one small flame for precise simmering to a dual flame for powerful boiling, all on the same burner.

6K BTU Even-Heat™ Simmer Burner

A diffuser plate allows more control of the flame at the lowest setting, for more precise simmering and melting.

CookShield Finish

Protects the cooktop from stains that may occur with high temperature cooking. The permanent finish makes it easy to wipe clean without harsh chemicals so it looks clean, bright and beautiful even longer.

Additional Features

Multi-Finish Knobs

Enhance the look of the cooktop surface with sturdy construction that adds to their premium feel.

LP Conversion Kit Included

Allows you to convert the cooktop so it can be used with LP gas.

Customer Reviews

Rated 5 out of 5 by Nova Mike from Wonderful Cooktop Purchased a stainless cooktop, model 550, in December 2007. It replaced a sears model from 2002. The change was dramatic. The cooktop looks great. The grates are sturdy and are located just right over the burners. All of the burners work great and whatever we have cooked does so evenly and quickly. The large center burner works as advertised to get things to a quick boil. Then you can move the pot over to one of the other burns if you want. We especially wanted the metal control knobs (too many melted plastic ones on our sears unit). The grates are positioned such that pans do not contact the knobs at all. We researched many brands and models and extremely happy with our KitchenAid cooktop

Date published: 2018-01-07

Rated 1 out of 5 by Unhappy cook from Heats everything slowly but the knobs We just remodeled my kitchen. We used all kitchen aid appliances. The cooktop looks beautiful but that is it. I have used this cooktop twice and am at a loss for what to do. The burners are too close together to but two pots on one side, it might as well be a 2 burner surface. It took me 30 minutes to boil 4 quarts of water. My frying pans and sauce pans hang over the knobs when I use it. The knobs get hot but not my pots. I am probably going to have to discard the cooktop. I am sickened I am so upset. What an extraordinary waste of money.

Date published: 2017-11-17

Rated 2 out of 5 by Scotty2541 from High power too low, low power to high I can simply reflect what " Sad Arlene" said. Slow to heat, and doesn't turn down load enough to simmer. Visually the flame appears to go from "full" to "3/4". I performed a simple analysis on the burner that is supposed to be 10K BTU. The best I got was a rate of rise of 0.35 degrees C on 8 oz (226 gm) of water. 8 oz isn't a lot. No wonder I can't boil a quart of water on it. Using the same course calculations, it would take 15 minutes to reach boiling. The house we moved out of had a gas range (from another manufacturer), and that rocked! Boiled fast, and could turn down the heat to a minuscule simmer. The flame was visually about 1/10th as big. This one is very inferior.

Date published: 2016-05-20

Rated 3 out of 5 by Richard from Great Looking, but different. We have had this cooktop in place for about a month now, and we are still learning it. It works great with large pots and pans, but it takes forever to heat smaller ones. There is a plate on top of each burner which focuses the flame toward the outer edges(or up the sides)of a smaller pan. It takes forever to heat an average size pan of liquid, and you have to be very careful not to burn yourself on a pot handle. We have experimented with all four of the burner sizes with similar results. The smaller burners don't seem to waste so much fire, or heat the pot handles as bad, but they have less fire to begin with. We need to go back to the book and make sure we are using the cooktop properly.

Date published: 2015-12-01

Rated 4 out of 5 by Abelito from Looks nice, easy to clean, minor design improvements needed We like our new sleek looking cooktop. - It is pretty easy to clean, except for the center burner. They really should have designed the center burner to be easier to clean inside. There is an open space near the center that cant be accessed with a sponge, without removing a screw. - I was worried about scratching the surface, so we are careful with cast iron pans, and moving the grates, but we have not had any problems yet (in 1 month of ownership). - The burners are large in front, so they are not great for small pans. (you get hot handles, and lost heat) - The burners are pretty loud, which could be a good or bad thing.

Date published: 2016-09-26

Rated 5 out of 5 by RodeoRedoTX from Don't Hesitate to Buy We purchased this to replace an existing 30" cooktop and installed it ourselves. We had to cut the countertop to allow room for a lip this one had that the other did not. As far as the other concerns from the copious amount of reviews I have read we have not had one issue with the grates being too high. This boils without issue on the smallest burner. We had higher end appliances in a previous house and this cooktop compares beautifully and is many ways is nicer. The cooktop is aesthetically pleasing along with functional. I would not hesitate to tell a friend to purchase this. Both my husband and I are happy.

Date published: 2017-12-06

Rated 5 out of 5 by Weasel from We'll Thought-Out Unit Since we have always used a range in the past, and the cooktop is by necessity smaller in overall dimensions, we initially thought things might be a bit cramped when using 3 or 4 plans at once, and indeed it can be cozy, but one gets used to it very quickly and it's really not an issue. The burner sizes are well planned so there is always a properly sized burner for any task from long slow summer to "Chicago Fire". That center burner will boil 4 quarts of pasta water or a large kettle much more quickly than we are used to. Everything is easy to clean and seems like it should last forever. On top of all that, it looks very nice when it's just sitting there waiting for you. I can think of no reason why you wouldn't love this.

Date published: 2017-05-03

Rated 2 out of 5 by Screenie from Too long to boil! After having this cooktop for 4 months I have several positives but 1 major negative. I love the variety of burners, the unit looks great, but I have never had a gas cooktop that takes so long to boil water. After having a good look at the cooktop while in use, my conclusion is that the nice commercial-looking pan-support grates are just too far away from the burners, so that when in use the base of the pans are not getting the heat / energy that they should to heat the pans. If KitchenAid could make some grates that don't hold the pans so far from the burners this would be a great solution to the problem.

Date published: 2019-01-25

Rated 1 out of 5 by David from Wrong cutout depth provided My fiancé and I bought this cooktop online before moving into our first home. We had granite countertops installed, and I provided the installers with the cutout dimensions from the Kitchenaid website. The depth read 19 1/16 inch, (and I have the screenshot to prove it), and lo and behold, the cooktop did not fit when we tried to install it. The website now correctly lists 19 13/16 inch for the cutout depth. Thanks to a typo from Kitchenaid, I'll have to pay for the granite company to come back out and cut a bigger hole. What a hassle to not be able to use our new cooktop.

Date published: 2016-01-31

Rated 5 out of 5 by Alyce from Love my KitchenAid appliances Remodeled my kitchen and replaced fairly new appliances with KitchenAid appliances; cook top, built in oven/microwave, dishwasher, and still waiting on the refrigerator to be delivered sometime in July. I am extremely pleased with all of them, however this review is for the cook top. There is nothing about this unit that I am not satisfied completely with. It is so easy to keep clean and that's a big plus if you like to cook a lot like I do. What I do find very different about this unit compared to the range I replaced is the distance from the flame that the grates are. It takes longer to make something boil, this I have to get used to. The positive side is that things don't burn as easily.

Date published: 2018-06-01