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hi I'm Ashley Clark Thompson with CNET appliances and today we're gonna talk about the Frigidaire Professional F PEF 3077 Q F this range is an electric model with a smooth glass top with some nice stainless steel finishes if you notice it has a pretty simple digital display on the back panel of this oven in return for that simplicity we have knobs lots and lots of knobs four on each side a total of eight and while they looked really nice being very symmetrical it can kind of get cluttered especially if you're doing a lot of cooking on the stovetop and in the oven with these knobs Frigidaire has opted to put the settings on the actual knob and white print which makes it really hard to see under direct overhead kitchen lighting now the cooktop on this range was a little disappointing to me specifically this nice little feature called a bridge feature now how this works is you can connect the two left burners and create kind of a larger cooking area however what we noticed in testing was that the front burner really really hot so high we've burned a pan and a lot of pancakes as well now this can be a problem if you want to cook something over a large area but you want to cook it at the same temperature however if you want to cook maybe paint takes on one side of a griddle baking on another this would work but you really have to get to know how to set each burner so you get the temperature that you want now I was impressed with the oven on this Frigidaire model it has a nice big 6.1 cubic foot capacity which could make really nice space for roasting a chicken and speaking of roasting this oven has a convection roast feature which provides a fan to circulate all this hot air so you get nice even cooking the chicken that we tested in this oven came out a perfect golden brown and was actually pretty moist and tasty too even though this oven worked really really great it wasn't enough to really impress me especially with the stovetop teachers that I really wasn't a fan of now with the fridge feature going back to that I did have a chance to test a recent Samsung Flex duo model that we have in house and it also has a bridge feature that actually cooked a lot more evenly than this one so I was a little disappointed and I can't say that this oven especially for $15.99 is the best value for your money thanks for watching I'm Ashley Clark Thompson with CNET appliances and to read this full review and other reviews go to cnet.com