Article: The cooktop question: how to make the right choice? (includes related article on downdraft vents)

Here's everything you need to know to choose what's best for you--heat source, configuration, the latest features, accessories, and ventilation options

OUR TRUE LIVING ROOM IS THE KITCHEN, AND, IN THIS vital center of the house, its hearth is the cooktop. With apologies to the oven, we're cooking more food on top of the stove than in it. Witness how the cooktop has freed itself from its boxy brother to sit anywhere in the kitchen, freed itself to take a bewildering variety of forms, styles, and configurations--in short, freed itself to become one of the most confusing purchases we have to make. How do we make a rational choice?

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