Avanti 20" Black Range

[K&Gs3400RL]

What say ye, Can I replace the Montana's with this? I know it will take a little trimming on the counter but I think I can get it to fit. My question is would it be to heavy for the slide?
• LP Conversion: Included
• Power: 120V/60Hz
• Overall Width: 19 1/2"
• Overall Depth: 25"
• Overall Height: 41"
• Unit Weight: 98.0 Lbs.

[Champ_49]

Will be looking for the answers on this one as I am always looking at getting rid of the Magic Chef in our unit. The oven in the Magic Chef leaves a lot to be desired!!

Dave

[bncinwv]

Not sure about any of the fit issues, but since the Magic Chef weighs in at 60 pounds, not counting the little bit of support platform, I cannot fathom where 30 - 40 pounds would make any difference. Just my opinion which is not based on any experience, intricate knowledge or ESPN (I like that Ozz!).
Bingo

[Ozz]

BTU's around the same? I don't see any problem with the weight...but the weight Police are always looking for me.
Why do you want to change? I like the little stove we have. Sue has been sick, so I have been doing all the cooking.
Bingo, some people get it, some just look at you a little puzzled when you say it, but I am used to folks shaking their head after a conversation with me..

[K&Gs3400RL]

BTU's???? Thanks Ozz dident think of that. thats why I come here to ask questions. As for why? The DW asked if it could be done so I thought I would ask.

Avanti G2006CB
• Rapid Burner: 1-8,600 BTU
• Semi-Rapid Burner: 2-4,600 BTU
• Simmer Burner: 1-3,000 BTU

Magic Chef
Front Center 9,100 BTU
All Others 6,100 BTU
Oven 9,000 BTU

[Ozz]

I do wish I had a simmer burner, but like it otherwise.
If the DW was asking, she had a good reason...that's my story and it's a good one.

[Champ_49]

We have been talking about these Magic Chef ovens and it's pretty much come to the determination here in the campground that the oven is what is the complaint. Over cooks on the bottom is the biggest complaint. This isn't just a couple saying this either, it's a lot of people. Anyone here have the same complaint?

Dave

[bncinwv]

Dave,
DW had the same complaint until she started using a pizza? stone in the oven. I have no idea other than there is now a flat piece of rock in the oven when she bakes anything. It helps, since I have no complaints about her baking. Of course, that has to be quantified that if I did have complaints about her baking, I would not have complaints about her baking! Understand?

[BB_TX]

Like Bingo, we also have a pizza stone in the bottom of ours. Seems to even out the heat better and not over cook things on the bottom.

[mhs4771]

On our SOB we only ordered the Cook Top with no oven, three storage drawers under the cook top, as we only used the oven in the Monty once. We use the Convection/Microwave for all our cooking, granted we do need good power, so if we were boondocking we'ld have to fire up the Onan, but that's what we got it for. Any way it works for us.

[DarMar]

We also put pizza stone in our oven last year and it certainly made a difference!!!

[DQDick]

We use a pizza stone also. On the weight, it shouldn't matter. Add the pizza stone to the pantry weight and the difference is no big deal

[BusyCarol]

I use a pizza stone in the oven as well. Do any of you remember Alton Brown's food show called Good Eats? He had an entire episode on why pizza stones even out the cooking of your stove! Can't remember any of it I just knew to put one in the Magic Chef when I found it to be too hot! It also seemed to bake faster at the back of the stove than at the front. Pizza stone corrected that as well...something about how it radiates the heat more evenly throughout the stove.

You guys are all so smart! Keeping the wife happy..well...what can I say...it just makes good sense! Especially when you live in such small quarters!

[Champ_49]

Had never heard of the pizza stone doing that, but makes sense. We in fact have one and use it for pizza, but it looks like it has another gain also. Thanks everyone.

Dave

[Jewels]

When you use a pizza stone or tiles, do you put them on the bottom of the stove -meaning the black platform with the holes around the edges? Should it be small enough to not cover those holes? In my stove, I have only one rack, so putting it on the rack is not feasible, is it?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

[bncinwv]

We used to use it on the rack itself and then place whatever is being baked on the stone.
Bingo

[Art-n-Marge]

We have an all black RV version of a Maytag in our '06 and we learned with great success to put a ceramic tile at the bottom of the oven's bottom recess. We bought an 11" square ceramic tile that was cut to fit exactly in the oven recess. The recess keeps it in place. It does a great job of diffusing heat directly coming from the bottom. While it stays in the oven it has cracked (with traveling) and is now two pieces, but that's all that's happened with it.

The only things for me to change it out are: electronic ignition for the oven and the BTUs would have to be the same. It should also be around the same weight and this one being 100 lbs is a 67% increase (ouch) if the original range is about 60 lbs. Plus trimming the existing countertop would make me nervous.

I'm curious to know why the need to swap out the range, too. My wife is okay with ours since I'm the one that contorts to light the oven pilot. I've heard that some have installed electronic igniters for the oven but I haven't looked into this.

btw - Bingo, ESPN? (the sports network?) Didja mean ESP? I wasn't aware Ozz had this? Ya learn something new, every day. I agree Ozz is quite capable but you ain't no slouch either. Me? I love a little slouching.

[Art-n-Marge]

Just went and checked the plate for the range and while the plate says I have a Maytag CLY2220BDB, a web search shows it as a Magic Chef. I believe Maytag got out of the RV Range business and maybe Magic Chef bought the line or something. I guess this means I do have a Magic Chef. What kind of problems are members having with it if other than having to light the pilot and burning the bottom of the baking dishes (which we solved with the stone)?

[bigskyjimmy]

My wife Loves to cook and her Only complaint since we went Fulltime is the WIMPY flame/ BTU compared to Her old Residential Range AND No top broiler, if they come out with a range with Better BTU and top broiler I would buy it in a heartbeat