Eliminating Cook Top/ Oven Combo Box

Tom_M wrote:
I don't have an oven, but I replaced the Suburban cooktop with a 24" residential model.

Now you're cookin'

I don't have an oven, but I replaced the Suburban cooktop with a 24" residential model.

Thank you all for your responses. Each one has given me new ideas. YOU can never have too much space to stash things.

I wouldn't rig up my RV by hacking up the oven. There are better cooktops out there to purchase. Sell the old oven on Craigslist or Facebook (it's valuable) and use those funds to purchase whatever you desire. If you can use electric only, consider an electric countertop model that you get out only when needed. You can even take it outside and loose no countertop.

I removed our cooktop and replaced it with an induction top and installed a dishwasher while I was at it.

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If you want to get rid of the oven and just have a cooktop and willing to pop for one if your not successfull separating them I'd do it.

I don't think usually the pieces are practically severable. You'd have to do something to alter the gas manifold to eliminate the oven thermostatic valve (or at least plug the outputs of that valve), at the very least. As with many things, given enough time and/or money and fiddling it could undoubtedly be done and done safely, but getting a proper ovenless cooktop is likely to be easier and possibly more economical.

They make single unit, counter top, induction cooking "hot plates". They work well for "one pan" meals.

I don't have the oven. I have a set of cabinet doors. When you open the doors, there is a big drawer on the bottom, depth is all the way to the back and height is almost 1/2 of the space. All my frying pans, pots, and cake pans, muffin tins, etc fit in that drawer. Just above that is a shelf. At the back I store my crockpot, dutch oven and racks for the convection. In front of them I have a lid rack and all covers for the pots and pans sit in this rack. At one end the pizza pans, slide in between the cabinet wall and the lid rack. I love this space as it hold so much. All is sitting on the waffle weave shelf liner and does not slide or move around when we travel.

I removed the stove/cook top in my new ride and replaced with an induction cook top and storage below. The stove/cook top is all one unit so you would have to cut it apart...not an easy job.

We rarely use the gas cooktop in our Dynasty and once you have an induction cooker I do not remember when we used the gas burners. I made the two burner one I put in removable so we can take it outside.