How many burners do you use on your rangetop?

[treedimensional]

Simultaneously?

I'll use 2 at the most. It has 5. I feel like a lot of kitchen appliances are too damn big for a 2-person household.

We have 2 ovens. We only use the little one.

Still no dishwasher, but when we get one, I'm really leaning toward a drawer, so I can have another cabinet.

[munkii]

I've used all five more than once, but usually I use a max of 3 at a time.

[mrsukyankee]

2-3 typically though I have used all 6 during holidays.

[TBM]

Two at the same time most of the time, sometimes three, but all five is not entirely unusual when we have guests.

We have one oven, and there are times when I would kill for a second oven, but again, mostly on holidays or when we have guests.

We have dish drawers. We mostly use the top one only when it is just the two of us here, but sometimes we start loading one while the other is running to help keep things picked up, or if we have extra bowls, etc (like if we are baking and messing up more stuff than usual). Two drawers are nice when we have company.

[Violet]

2-3 on a regular basis for our 2 person household.

We could never survive with a dishwasher drawer. I run our dishwasher every other day. We cook almost every night and I pack a lot of pyrex for my lunches.

[moorea]

We're a 2 person household and we typically use 2 burners. When cooking for a gathering, I usually use all 4. We have a 5th center one, but if there's pots on the other 4, I really can't fit anything in the center. And if I use a big stockpot or something on one of the front burners, chances are I can't fit anything on the back burner. Sometimes I wish for a bigger stove!

[redheadk]

I have 5 but have only every used 4 at once. Normally just 2.

I do have double ovens and use both with regularity.

[sunshineandpinot]

Nov 30, 2016 17:12:00 GMT -5 treedimensional said:

Simultaneously?

I'll use 2 at the most. It has 5. I feel like a lot of kitchen appliances are too damn big for a 2-person household.

We have 2 ovens. We only use the little one.

Still no dishwasher, but when we get one, I'm really leaning toward a drawer, so I can have another cabinet.

Just bought a new induction cooktop. Appliance store thought we were crazy for only going with 4 burners. My old cooktop only had 3 working burners, lol, and never in the 10 years we used it did I ever wish for 4. 
I agree that many appliance are too big. 

We did buy a 48" built in frig and I <3 it!!!! 

We went with 1 oven but microwave is a convection so could be used as a second oven. We also have a toaster oven and you will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. 

1 full size dishwasher. 

Also installed a warming drawer. We are in the minority but we use it daily. 

[TR]

Nov 30, 2016 18:14:13 GMT -5 Violet said:

2-3 on a regular basis for our 2 person household.

We could never survive with a dishwasher drawer. I run our dishwasher every other day. We cook almost every night and I pack a lot of pyrex for my lunches.

Ditto all of this. 

[Marmee]

6-person household

2-3 burners when I cook usually. I have 5 burners.

We have an entire kitchen in the basement...I occasionally use the dishwasher down there, the fridge/freezer all the time. Otherwise I only use the extra oven during holidays, never ever use the burners on the range.

[doctoranda]

2-3 on a regular basis but occasionally 4, especially when entertaining. We only have one oven but I would be very happy to have two (one small and one big). We do have a dishwasher that we run every other night. I feel with refrigerators you get accustomed to whatever size it is. We have moved a lot and had various sizes and somehow it doesn't matter how big it is, it always feels like I could use more fridge and freezer space.

[Ramz-ee]

Two person household. We normally use two burners, but do use a third often enough. We have a mini oven which also functions as a warming drawer in addition to the regular oven. When this oven was purchased I had big plans to bake a lot and how great would it be to have a second oven to bake. I've never used the mini oven to bake anything in 2.5 years. Go me.

[pumpkin]

Usually one or two. Occasionally 3, an almost never all 4.
Then again the house I grew up in had the stovetop in the island with 2 burners on one side and interchangeable burners/griddle surface on the other. For some reason my parents always had the griddle side over there even though we never used it for that. In fact, I was in high school before I even knew there were interchangeable burners, lol. So, basically I grew up with only 2 burners and think I'm conditioned.

Oh, and while I love my mother, she is not a great cook and hates to cook so having more burners was never an issue with her

[undecidedowl]

I regularly use 2 at a time, and occasionally use 3. But it's not always the same 3 as they serve different purposes.

[thatgirl2478]

Regularly 2, at least 2-3 times per month 3, occasionally 4. I only have 4 now though. In a few days I'll have 5. I don't need or want that 5th burner but (at least at lowes) you couldn't find the style / brand I wanted with 4.

[hausfrau]

We have four burners on our gas range, but generally when I am just cooking for our family only two are in use. When we have company over and I'm cooking dinner, I may use 3, but I don't think we've ever used all four at once.

[OscarQ]

Regularly 1-2. Occasionally 4. I do wish my range top was wider so I could fit more pots on the rare occasion I need to use all four. I don't feel the need for more burners - just more space to accommodate the pots and pans on the burners.

[bullygirl979]

Typically 2-3 for a 2 person household. Although, when entertaining, I will usually use 4-5.

I currently only have 4 but when we do the kitchen reno, I am picking a 5 burner.

[hbomdiggity]

I have 6, I probably only used 3 at one time.

Sometimes it not so much the number of burners but the fact that i have 2 large ones vs only one so I'm not limited in that way.

We also now have 2 ovens and although 1 has seen hardly any use since we moved in 6 months ago, it was REALLY nice for Thanksgiving.

we also rarely use/run the dishwasher, even now with a kid. But having 8 people here for the holidays? yeah, it was even run multiple times a day.

[AmyRI]

2-3 for our 5-person household. The only time we've used all 4 burners was when we were prepping multiple meals worth of food at once.

We have a double oven and never use the small drawer. The temperature is so unreliable on it that it doesn't cook anything well and we rarely entertain and have need of warming drawer, so it sits unused.

I'd never get anything done without our dishwasher. We're up to running it once a day now that we've been better at packing lunches and making dinner at home, but again, family of 5. Not terribly surprising.

[RamblingRose]

I have 4 burners, and regularly use 2 but 3 isn't unusual for me. That is for two people, by myself it's 1, sometimes 2. I desperately miss having a dishwasher, and I think a drawer one would be perfect for my needs and would have been fine when there were two of us. I would handwash my cookware anyway, so it would really just be for plates/mugs/glasses.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Two at the most, because on this cooktop, the damn front/back burners are spaced incorrectly and too close together. So a large pan on either large burner completely obliterates my ability to use the two small burners for anything. I have a 36 inch cooktop and 2 useable burners. Thanks, GE.

I cannot wait to get an induction in the next year or two. I want one of those fancy ones that senses wherever you put a pan and creates a little control thing for that space. It's mind-blowing.
ETA: This one - www.thermador.com/cooking/cooktops/cit36xkb-36-inch-masterpiece-series-freedom-induction-cooktop

[lolalolalola]

I've used 4 but not often. I've never wanted more than 4... I hate the induction cooktop we have because it only lets me use one small pot.