Gadgetory

hi Katy Pilkington for CNET here and today we're going to be taking a closer look at the Samsung any five eight f 9 7 1 0 WS electric range with Flex duo this range retails for twenty two ninety nine which is expensive given that you can go to your local Home Depot or Lowe's and buy a basic electric range for just under four hundred dollars but Samsung is definitely swinging for the fences with this one and targeting more of a luxury market slide and ranges are relatively new to the category and they're designed to fit flush against and on top of your countertop so that this cooktop sits and looks integrated with your counters and your cabinets given that it's a slide in the control panel migrates from the back of the appliance to the front this brings us to what I think is perhaps one of the most elegant features about this range which is this really gorgeous touchscreen samsung has given you all of the options that you need without any superfluous buttons cluttering up the interface this is a glass ceramic cooktop it's black in color it's got a really sleek appearance and Samsung's loaded it with a lot of features that going back to that original price point may prove to give you some of that bang for your buck that you're looking for for instance it's got two smaller burners that join together to form a bridge bridges are becoming increasingly more popular but they're not the norm by any means another nice feature that we're seeing more of that Samsung has placed on this cooktop is this triple burner they give you options to use a small pan a medium pan or a large pot but where Samsung really hits it out of the park is with the Flex duo technology inside the oven what Samsung has done to make this space truly functional and compete with other brands who are moving into putting double ovens in a range is to give you this really clever flex duo divider with the divider in place the range turns the single large cavity oven into to individually operated ovens to test the Flex duo we wanted to cook foods that required two different cooking temperatures in each cavity to assess how well the oven did at keeping those temperatures separate without leaking heat from the top to the bottom or vice versa we baked cookies in the top oven at 350 degrees and we baked a cast-iron French bread in the bottom oven at 450 degrees I'm happy to report that with the Flex duo divider in place this Samsung range performed exactly as we would have hoped and baked cookies that were good as good as I've had in any other oven and the bread turned out really well I attribute a lot of this success to the fact that Samsung has given you to convection fans in this oven so that when the oven is being used without the divider as just a single cavity you're getting all the benefits of convection but they also don't sacrifice that when you want to use the divider giving you two individual convection ovens Samsung is definitely swinging for the fences with this range but if the specs speak to you and you really like the look of this oven as well as its great performance in all of our tests it might be worth the money thanks for watching for CNET I'm Katie Pilkington