5th burner

Hmm though I use to cook big time when the kids were home and lots of dinner parties, I can't imagine me ever needing one. All I can think of is the families who cook several varieties at once who may feel they need all five burning at once. Unless it serves as a warming area while other things are still cooking?

I just had to buy a new stove and noticed the 5th burner too. I don'nt think they are too necesary and just something else to clean but the ones I looked at...the 5th burnerwas in the middle and you got a crate to put over it and then used a griddle skillet ther for like pancakes or hamburgers etc. My thought was, well the other do this same thing cause the burner is in the middle of the griddle, just like the burner is in the middle of the skillet...so what's the point? Only thing I came up with was if you have a longer griddle than the opposing grate will allow spacewise. It was on most of them tho, so I guess it is the "up and coming thing" of the day. I was totally shocked at the prices tho! $1500 for a medium/upper grade range. Heavy grates instead of the porclean ones, just seemed to be put together more sturdily and firmly and didn't loo cheap, but mu other problem was, I couldn't go with a cheaper one... as this one (we just bought the house) was a "slide in " style, where the controls are all on the front near the knobs, not a back panel. Those were cheaper, but mine had tdo be slide in so that made it more expensive. But come on $1600 for a stove? I 'm not sure that if the seller hadn't been kicking in half, I am not sure I'd walked away and just bougt a small dingle burner appliandce and just keep using my toaster oven for everything like I have been!

Well think about it, sometimes we have so much food we're cooking at once that the fifth burner comes in handy. Such as say Cube Steak, that goes with macaroni and cheese, peas (or green beans) corn, and fried squash. Hence the fifth burner. I guess it does seem a little useless but I suppose enough people had said "YES a fifth burner would be beneficial" that the companies stared making them. I"m not sure how those decisions are made or how useful our surveys are to these companies.

I've often wished for a fifth burner. Especially when cooking for a crowd and/or holiday time. I've got one burner right now that doesn't get hot enough and I could use another. I think it's a good idea.

Mine doesn't have the 5th burner, but I wish it did. my MIL used hers for when she is making gravy in the roasting pan. She places the pan across the back 3 burners and makes her gravy. Very convenient. I am interested in reading the other's replies.

I often wish I had a 5th burner. I am not a great cook, but I do always seem to need an extra burner around the holidays, or when I have family over. I have seen them often, but they due tend to cost more. I do have a separate electric burner, that I do use around the holidays.

I see those a lot on the TV shows that redo rooms in people's houses. And a lot of times the stoves that are selected have a fifth burner. Most of the women in question who are looking at the stoves, cook a lot. Like one lady ran a catering thing out of her home, so the fifth burner aided her in her business. Another woman had a lot of kids, so she could cook more things at a faster rate with that extra burner. I certainly don't need a fifth burner, but maybe some people do.

There sure are times that I could use a 5th burner on my stove. I do a lot of homestyle cooking and it is very common for me to have enough food on to need the extra burner. I have never seen a stove like this though. I might make my husband check into one of these.

Looking at images for a stove with a 5th burner it looks like it would be prefect for a big griddle like you are talking about or a huge pot anyway. I know the stove that we had when I was a kid had a huge griddle built into the middle of it like the 5th burner. It was perfect for Sunday pancake breakfast.

I have to say, I have never seen one of these stove tops with the 5th burner. I moved into my home 10 years ago. It came with a 4 burner stove and is still in use today. Maybe the 5th burner comes in handy for preparing side dishes on the holidays.