They may look pretty but they are crab appliances. All my 3 GE Cafe appliances (Fridge, Stove and dishwasher) have service calls within the first 4 years after my purchase. I am so done with GE and it is not funny. I swear I will never buy GE again. My stove cost me $1400 to fix, the dishwasher cost me $300 and now my fridge is not cooling. Hope it is not going to cost me much. All these appliances have only 1 year of warranty unless you buy extended warranty. Who would have thought that these appliance only lasted 3-4 years?

We recently bought a new (to us) home that had a new kitchen installed and they chose the form over function GE Cafe dishwasher and 48" range. Both look pretty enough, but they also both are far from delivering the functioanlity their price point should offer. The dishwasher is just terrible, we've had 4 different Bosch dishwashers in previous houses and we also own a cheap Fridgidaire unit at a vacation home -- the GE is the worst of them all.

The space is just so horribly inefficient, partly as their "3rd drawer" is useless for silverware...it can't hold anything but butter knives. So then the bottom draw has a this gigantic silverware box where silverware doesn't get clean consistenly, just like a 1970's dishawasher. They also clearly measure the loudness differently than Bosch, as it is louder than even our low budget Fridgidaire and far far louder than our old Bosch that was rated at a higher decible rating than GE claims. But it is "pretty". We are in process of ordering a Bosch 800 to replace it, the Cafe will have been used for less than 3 months when we get rid of it.

The range is a hard adjustment coming from a Bluestar, the burner design is just terrible. The "two step" burners where the outer ring turns off as you turn it down is a gigantic drop in heat and there is no "middle", it is either scorch your food or two cool to do anything. Add in that the heat is either concentrated directly in the middle of the pan, or it is the same crappy flat-sealed burner where the flames jet out to the outside of the pan...so the inside isn't hot. So you end up having to move pans around endlessly at different cook temperatures...sure, I wish my mid-2000's Bluestar RNB could go colder *sometimes* -- but man, it was 100X a better cook top.

I haven't had a chance to measure the oven temperature, but it seems to be cooler than we are setting it to. I know our Bluestar was very accurate and consistent, even with its simple analog thermostat...I ended up buying the extended warranty for the GE Cafe range as this thing is a complicated nightmare, not sure why my range needs Internet access, and a digital screen and buttons in addition to a function knob and temperature dial, 4 differnet interactions to just turn it on. But hey, I guess it looks "pretty". We are already looking at a new Bluestar gas range and evaluating what induction options might exist as well (though being able to have hot food during a power outage is pretty convenient).

Russel C: "The space is just so horribly inefficient, partly as their "3rd drawer" is useless for silverware...it can't hold anything but butter knives."

You can remove the third rack as described in the user manual. You can then adjust the height of the middle rack to allow taller items on that rack.

"So then the bottom draw has a this gigantic silverware box..."

Be sure to use the so-called "CustomFit basket" on the right-hand side with the lid to prevent the silverware from nesting.

...where silverware doesn't get clean consistenly..."

If your dishwasher has the option, select Silverware Wash on the control panel.

As shown in the user manual, there are Pre-wash and Main wash dispensers. Instead of detergent pods, use Cascade Complete powder detergent; put a small amount in the Pre-wash dispenser and the appropriate amount -- as described in the user manual -- in the Main wash dispenser.

Overall, the Auto cycle may provide better performance than Normal.

Good luck!