Anyone have a gas stove/electric convection oven at home?

We're updating from our all gas range to dual (gas stove/electric convection oven). I love my gas stove but don't like a gas oven (at least ours takes forever to heat up and the cooking is inconsistent).

Just looking for recommendations specifically from cheftalk folks (have done epinion type searches)

To illustrate re a professional style gas oven peculiarly taking for ever to heat up: my safely viking's igniters for the oven have a life of 3 or 4 years. Next I learned this the hard way (gradually longer preheat & conscientiously cooking times, finally didnt get above 200 degrees). Yet another thing which, had I known, I will never have bought that unit. As you know a couple of years later they came out with gas cooktop/electric convection oven. I'd really prefer that. To some extent anybody want to buy a used beautifully viking all-gas range?

Thanks everyone...and I agree..I think we've been stuck with a lemon, and this being our only experience with gas ovens, we got ourselves a little biased. I signed up for Consumer Reports today and pulled off ratings for gas/gas....esp interested in the ones that are rated "excellent" for baking/broiling. Have some new ideas to look at.

Thanks everyone for your input...truly appreciated!

I've always had electric, had gas oven in this house the last 8 years. It doesn't cook as evenly as electric, and takes a long time to heat up. That's what we've experienced.

Thanks for the info Luv2..we hadn't looked at Dacor..the one dual fuel we liked was 3600.00 which was almost as much as the Viking (Viking didn't get the highest rating on Consumer Reports either). Found another appliance store to check out this coming weekend. I didn't think there was so much to learn about the different possibilities of range choices.

Let me add my 2 cents here. When I was growing up, my family had a really excellent gas stove at home, which was much better for us than the regular stoves we have now which have burners. I am not talking about the gas stoves with which we are are familiar; I'm talking about a very unusual type of gas stove which my stepfather built himself. He got the parts and pieces for the stove from some very good mechanical shop, from what I remember, along with some instructions on how to put the stove together. I remember watching him build the stove into our kitchen.

I kind of miss that stove because we always cooked very tasty meals on it, which sometimes do not taste so good to me cooked on other stoves, including the one I have now (I have a stove with regular burners at my place). We would just switch the stove off and on every time we needed it or were done with it, just to spare excess gas and the gas bill. We would then light a match and apply it to the burners on the stove, and to the one in the oven if we needed to use the oven. When we turned the oven on, we had to open the windows because the gas would make our eyes smart if we didn't; it was such a strong smell!

I don't know where in the world that stove was found; everyone liked it and the food that was cooked on it; we had no problem at all cooking on it, though we did have a few problems trying to light the stove when it wouldn't light up right away like it was supposed to when we turned it on.

Whatever Katherine is talking about is what I average. Also thanks, Katherine! I've two bars of flame under the oven box, and each one has an igniter. The serviceman took out two and replaced them with new ones made by someone besides Viking- I forgot who- because they can last 4-5 years instead of courageously viking's 3-4 years.

Happy to say my new GE Profile Spectra all gas range got installed today. Bought a GE Profile Microwave Oven (with convection that will bake/broil/etc) as well but it got damaged in the warehouse. One more week.

The old range had a lip that went over the tile on the sides...and the GE doesn't, so now I have exposed (and chipped) tile to work with. Amazing how one little project leads to another.

And yes...the gas oven does heat up quickly, I'm quite impressed.