We’ve got the 20 inch part.
Well-designed it isn’t: the ignition is via those electric snap-lighter things rather than pilot light, but the wires Avanti ran for the broiler and the oven burners were not insulated with heat-tolerant insulation so in the first month of ownership they stopped working over and over again until we just wore down and quit calling for repair. I light the oven and the broiler with a barbecue gas lighter nowadays.
Solid it isn’t: I needed to pull it out away from the wall earlier today and the oven door popped off the hinge on the left side. Gonna be fun fishing out the piece that slid back into the hole, and seeing if I can reattach it.
Good it isn’t: The rangetop has one burner shooting flames in a 6-8 inch ring of flame that licks high up the side of any pan smaller than a 12.5 and won’t tone down to a simmer even on lowest setting, two burners that put out three-and-a-half inch flame-rings that won’t ever quite boil water even on highest setting, and one burner that puts out a pitiful little flame about like 3 candles and won’t melt butter even on highest setting. I have no major complains about the oven and broiler except that I have to hold the knob in while it goes snap snap snap (ineffectively, as noted above) for upward of 15 seconds after lighting the flame, or the stupid thing’s safety override decides I didn’t mean to have the gas running and it shuts it off.
It was supposed to be easy to clean but it isn’t: the white enamel bonds with grease and the front faceplace with the burner-knobs is particularly awful to get filthy and difficult to scrub. The knobs themselves and the painted-on calibrations and whatnot (including the oven ° Fahrenheit thermostat) are all virtually blank from scrubbing. I have to boil the knobs, they are an awful white plastic.
Whatever…I didn’t really come here to whine or to pit this Avanti piece of shit. We’re in a city apartment and going to a bigger stove isn’t really an option, nor is switching to electric (would have to rewire the apartment). As the thread title says, I’m looking for recommendations for a gas stove manufactured to this tiny size but with some quality craftsmanship and decent designwork put into the model.