[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by Zeke

You will be happier with one that exhausts to the outside. Jenn Air has been selling down draft units for years. They seem to work OK. That would be your simplest solution. I can't find a price on one.

We have a Jenn Air gas cooktop, if I had of paid full pop for it I'd be totally p i s s e d.
We got it off of kijiji (like craigslist) >3 years old for only $150 (regular $1200 IIRC) and it's barely worth that IMO. My main compliant is after one meal it's totally filthy and unless you clean it it looks like poop. If it was just a wipe OK, but I've almost thought about putting it in my bead blasting cabinet. Mind you it's white enamal, black would be just as bad, maybe the SS one would be better, at least you could scrub it with comet. We line it with tinfoil just so we don't have to scrub it every freaking time.The grill is a novel concept, but it is slow, smoky and did I mention dirty? It really should have a top like a BBQ, at least it would cut down on the smoke and you could hide the mess. With out a top it can't keep up with the smoke of just a couple of steaks, I stick forks in the DD vent grill and prop up a deep baking sheet to direct the smoke and stop the splatter. The fingers for the burners warp and forget about putting a small saucepan on it. Also the heat is almost impossible to regulate at low temperatures and high is no where near what a commercial unit would put out. For a "higher end" cooktop it has cheap plastic knobs that will deform and become brittle with the heat.

Other than that I'm happy with it....